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In 1939 my best friend Lewis Blackwell, who was fourteen at the time, had the good fortune to land a steady Saturday job with our local general store. Although there may have been dozens of similar jobs for boys in small towns throughout Southeastern Oklahoma back then, it’s doubtful that even one could be found nowadays.
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THE CALVIN HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC TEAM competed in the OSSAA District Seeding Tournament Monday Oct. 12th at Moss High School. They came away with the top seed and will compete at the Regional level in November. (L to R) Nariah Bump, RJ Craven, Champ Florie, Race Tyler, Jonas Winningham, Raney Clay. (not pictured: Brayden Ingle)
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A leader in the Oklahoma City, state, and national Civil Rights movement, James Edward Stewart worked very closely with Roscoe Dunjee, editor and publisher of the Black Dispatch, a weekly Oklahoma City newspaper. The son of Zena Thomas Stewart and Mary Magdeline Fegalee Stewart, James Edward was born on September 6, 1912, in Plano, Texas. He had one half-brother, Alfred, and two half-sisters, Ella, and Johnnie. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1916. Stewart’s father died in 1920, leaving James to assist in supporting the family. Stewart attended Orchard Park Elementary School and later Douglass High School. There he and noted author Ralph Ellison both played in the band and became close friends.
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Robert Benchley once remarked, “Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
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Senior Candidates Alex Freeman & Allison Bray
Junior Candidates Jordan Osborn and Jadyn Young
Sophomore Candidates Hayden Hobia and Kaiya Herrod
2020 Homecoming King and Queen Alex Freeman and Allison Bray
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A. J. Smitherman, best known as a heroic advocate of self-defense for African Americans in a time of intense racist violence, “A.J.” Smitherman was a leading black political figure in the American West.
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