THE MTHS CLASS OF 1964 “BULLDOGS FOREVER”
Welcome to Our Class of 1964 Website
Sixty years ago one of the greatest graduating classes from one of America’s great high schools left the security of the classroom to face the world. This website documents the story of the class and celebrates the lives of class members in pictures and prose. It is intended to inspire young African American students who follow in our footsteps and to rekindle our own pleasant memories of times past. We dedicate this site to the memory of our classmates and teachers who have passed from this life as well as those who will pass in the future, and to the enduring principles of character and leadership that guided us . We trust those principles will also guide the generations who succeed us.
Manual Training High School – Gone But Not Forgotten – A Plaque To Celebrate Greatness
Manual Training High School was one of the first three high schools established in Oklahoma for the education of Black children. Over 5000 students graduated during its sixty years of service before it merged with the majority white Central High School in 1970. The school building no longer bears the MTHS name, but the Class of 1964 was determined to preserve the memory of the building’s renowned history. To that end, the Class led a drive to place a bronze plaque on the renamed building that recounts the glorious history of Manual Training High School for all to remember.
Those Who Guided Us
Leroy Kirkpatrick – Harry Hodges -Mrs. M.B. Bonner
Principal Counselor Senior Sponsor
Charles Adams – Mrs. E.E. McPhaul – W.G. Parker
Senior Sponsor Senior Sponsor Senior Sponsor
Juanda Barry — John Beasley — Billye Beckner
Lorene Brown — Luvenia Burrell — Juanita Caldwell
Johnye Cannon — Clyde Chandler — Roland Chandler
Elrena Chatman — William Chatman — Priestley Cherry
Herman Christian — Dennis Clark –Rance Clemmons
McIra Corbin — Elzata Cozart — Gilda Crutcher
Morris Curry — Douglas Danford — Georgia Edmondson
Rosetta Edwards — Betty English Jackie Fields
John Gardner — Marva Graham — Celestine Ford
Ray Hatton — Tamashia Herbert — Ernest Hickman
Marva Hill — Richard Jacobs — Loretta James
Georgia Johnson — Edward King –Lawrence Spencer
Barbara LeFlore –Amour Logan
Benny Logan — Deborah Mason — Dorothy Mason
Clint Montgomery –Ernestine Moore — Patricia Morrison
Linda McGee — Willie McGee — Robert Nathan
Leonard Nelson — Beverly Nivens — Brenda Oakley
Marshall Oakley — William Oakley — Margo Ore
Clifford Parks — Ruby Peterson –Cecil Piercy
Kenneth Pittman — Albert Porter — James Porter
Don Portis — Patricia Powell — Norman Puckett
Vance Raye — Sharon Reynolds — Joyce Roberts
Louise Roberts — James Robinson — Debra Royal
Gary Royal — Betty Sample –Evelyn Sanders
Emma Shade
Alonzo Shipp — Geraldine Smith — Robert Stephens
Royal Taliaferro — Julius Taylor –Sybil Taylor
Kenneth Teague — Ruth Teague — Eula Thomas
E. W. Thomas — Gloria Thomas — Grace Thomas
Wilbur Thomas — Helen Thompson — Lynetta Thompson
Charlene Triggs –Danella Vann — Toian Vaughn
Gilbert Walker — Juanita Wallace — Saundra Webb
Mary Whitfield — George Williams — Charles Wilson
Linda Wilson — Sandra Wilson — Martha Witt
Pictures Not Available:
Franklin Lee
Ernestine Moore
Robert Nathan
Thomas Scott
Leon Shepherd
Our Classmates – Memories of 1964