Academic Career and Related News Items

Vol. 17 No. 13 of The Sands
Amarillo High School Newsletter

229 Students Make Six Weeks' Honor Roll in A.H.S.
41 Make Straight "A" List; 188 Comprise "A and B" Roll

Two hundred and twenty-nine students are on the honor roll for the second six weeks period. There are 41 "A" and 188 "B" students. Those making all "A" are: Woodrow Baldwin, . . . [and 40 others]

High School Graduation Invitation

The Senior Class of
Amarillo High School
invite you to be present
at their
Commencement Exercises
Thursday, May twenty sixth
Nineteen hundred and thirty eight
eight o'clock P.M.
Municipal Auditorium

Amarillo Student Delegation To Attend Lubbock Session

Woodrow Baldwin, student in Amarillo College and Vice President of the Northwest Texas Intercollegiate Student's Conference, will attend the sessions of the organization to be held at Texas Technological College, Lubbock, October 14 and 15.

The conference is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. organizations of colleges of Northwest Texas and Eastern New Mexico.

Other officers, elected at the spring encampment held in April are: Gaynelle Douglas, of West Texas State, president; and Vondee Webb, Hardin Junior College, secretary.

Wayne Liles, of Tech, serves with these three officers on the Northwest Texas area council, which planned the Lubbock conference.

Prominent adult and student speakers will be on the conference program, and in addition group discussions will be held.

A social event is planned for Saturday night at the Texas Tech gymnasium. A delegation of Amarillo College students will attend the conference.

Awards for Excellence in Shorthand Work

Miss Dorothy Dell Scheihagen, Mr. Woodrow Baldwin and Miss Geraldine Smith of Amarillo College have been awarded the 140 words-per-minute shorthand pins, which the arts and credentials department of the Gregg Publishing Company presents to those students who qualify for such awards. These students took dictation on new congressional material for five minutes dictated at the rate of 140 words-per-minute, and they transcribed their notes 96.86, 95.96% and 96.19% accuracy respectively.

"This places these students in a class with expert shorthand writers," stated Mrs. Agatha McLarry Shaw.

Takes Post on UCLA Faculty

Woodrow W. Baldwin, son of Mrs. Ledia Baldwin of 1211 W. 18th, a graduate of Amarillo High School and Amarillo College, has been appointed to the faculty of the college of business administration in the University of California at Los Angeles.

Baldwin received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1942, followed by three years in the Army. Upon release from the service, he entered UCLA, where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1947 and is now working for his Doctor of Education degree.

For the past two years he has been doing part-time teaching while working on advanced degrees. A full-time appointment was given at the beginning of the current semester.

Takes Post With Simmons College

Dr. Woodrow W. Baldwin, son of Mrs. Ledia Baldwin, 1211 W. 18th, has resigned as assistant professor of business education at the University of California at Los Angeles, and has gone to Boston to accept the position of director of Simmons College of Business Administration.

Dr. Baldwin was raised in Amarillo, graduating from Amarillo High School and Amarillo College and taking his bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma. He received both his master's and his doctorate from UCLA.

Cross Reference: See artices:
"Simmons College VITA."
"Planning Professional Destiny."
"How One High School Course Changed My Life."

Woodrow Baldwin Is Honored At Dinner
[photo is the same three — Scheihagen, Baldwin, & Smith — many years later]

Honoring Woodrow Baldwin on his birthday, a dinner was given by Miss Dorothy Dell Scheihagen at the Mexican Inn Thursday evening.

Class of 1938 reunites in 1988
[50 year class reunion]

When Dr. Woodrow W. Baldwin attended the 50th reunion of the Class of 1938, he was given a badge which included his picture from the 1938 yearbook.

Announcement
[Woody as the President of the Class of 1938— all can be assured
there are social events still!!]
AMARILLO HIGH SCHOOL
Class of 1938
60TH REUNION
OCTOBER 16-17, 1998
It's great to be '38"

Class of 1938 reunites in 1999
[61 year class reunion]

Sixty-one years later and these Sandies are still roaming the halls of Amarillo High.

Twenty-three of the 470 seniors in their graduating class visited the campus on Sept. 17-18 as part of a reunion of the Class of 1938.

"It was wonderful," said Johnny Gray of Amarillo. "It's the first time I've been in this building since it was built."

Coming to the "new" Amarillo High was very different for some.

"It's different from our Amarillo High, but we felt very welcome," said Woodrow Baldwin, president of the Class of 1938. "It's very exciting and interesting to see the many ways it's changed."

Throughout the day, these special Sandies were guests at many activities, including a pep rally, question and answer session, and the AHS vs. Odessa Permian football game. They also were entertained by a string quartet and the New Sound Singers.

They said that the pep rally had as much Sandie pride as it always did.

"It's just like it always was, only bigger," said Jack Hemingway of Harker Heights, TX. "It hasn't lost a bit of fire."

Mary Jeffress Richey, Class of 1937, said she enjoyed the fact that there are so many cheerleaders. "The pep rally was nice, but loud!" Richey said. "It's very exciting because we had only five cheerleaders."

Other things have changed over the years including the dress code, sports, and clubs and extra-cairricular activities offered. In 1938, the girls had to wear dresses every day and the boys were required to wear a shirt and tie. "We couldn't wear pants to school, only dresses," Janet Ivey Williamson of Amarillo said. "We had to dress up to degree."

Some clubs and activities offered then were Business Club, Debate, Spanish Club, ROTC, and Glee Club, but many students didn't join clubs because of the Great Depression, the group said. "We were Depression kids, so we worked eight hours a day and couldn't join many clubs," Baldwin said. The clubs, the dress code, and even the building has changed, but the Sandie Pride remains the same.