My wife graduated from Shawnee High School in 1950. A classmate, Steve Cowen, calls it the Nifty Fifty Class because graduates have excelled in practically every field of endeavor using as their base the education they absorbed in the excellent Shawnee Public School system.
The Shawnee High School Museum has a picture of you if you attended school or graduated from Shawnee public schools. Curator/Historian Burke “Fritz” Anderson will know where to find your picture. Fritz Anderson is a walking encyclopedia on the men and women who finished High School in Shawnee dating back to Thelma Barns, Class of 1925.
The Museum recognizes students who have excelled in music, journalism, education, art, military, sports, etc. and the impact they have had on quality of life in Shawnee, the state of Oklahoma, the United States of America and the world.
Oklahoma schools rank 49th out of the 50 states in funding for education with a per capita expenditure below Arkansas, Texas and the other states that border Oklahoma.
James B. Townsend
Shawnee
