Central High School is the oldest high school in

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. It was founded in 1906 as Tulsa High School, and located in

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until 1976. The school now has a campus in northwest Tulsa. Tulsa Central is part of the

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, Oklahoma's largest school district, and is a

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for students from grades 9 through 12. Since 1997 it has served as a

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and performing arts magnet school.Kris Dudley
"Fame: Central High School Takes on Role as Magnet Site for the Arts"
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'', August 20, 1997.

History

The original Tulsa High School was erected in 1906 at Fourth and Boston in downtown Tulsa. In 1913 it became the third school in the state to win accreditation. A new building opened in 1917 at the corner of Sixth and Cincinnati, and was enlarged in 1922. The Manual Arts building at Ninth and Cincinnati was added in 1925.Joyce Saunders
"Central High School"
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(retrieved March 24, 2009). Tulsa Central was at one time said to be the second largest high school in the country, and included an indoor pool, an indoor track, an extensive art collection, and a large pipe organ.Kirby Lee Davis
"These Walls: Tulsa's Central High School"
''Oklahoma City Journal-Record'', April 11, 2008 (retrieved March 24, 2009). Central was Tulsa's only public high school for white students, and by 1938 it had grown to its peak enrollment of more than 5,000 students in grades 10–12. Finally, Tulsa opened two new high schools: Webster High School in

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(in 1938), and

Will Rogers High School Will Rogers Middle and High School, located at 3909 E. 5th Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was built by Tulsa Public Schools in 1939 using WPA workers and designed by Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. and Leon B. Senter. It was named for the humorist Will Rog ...

east of downtown (in 1939). Booker T. Washington High School was established for African American students in 1913. Tulsa's schools were legally

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until 1955, and remained segregated ''de facto'' at least into the 1970s, due to population patterns and school policies. The construction of Tulsa's Inner Dispersal Loop freeway impaired the school's access to the outdoor physical education facilities at Central Park and Tracy Park. The cost of downtown parking was also a problem. These factors led to the decision to move the school out of downtown. The new campus was opened in 1976, at 31st West Avenue and Edison Street, in the portion of northwest Tulsa that is located in Osage County. The old Central High School building at Sixth and Cincinnati was leased by

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("PSO"). After a complete renovation and extensive interior modifications in 1977, it now serves as PSO's headquarters. The renovated and

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building has been named a Tulsa landmark by the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture. The former Manual Arts Building at Ninth and Cincinnati is now part of the downtown campus of

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. PSO terminated the old high school building lease and bought the building outright in 2013.

Notable faculty

Adah Robinson

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, an art teacher at Tulsa Central for several years in the late 1910s, is credited with the design of the

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, an outstanding example of religious

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architecture that is now designated as a

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. Robinson's collaborator in the design was

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, her former student at Tulsa Central, and an architectural prodigy who designed 61 Tulsa buildings between 1920 and 1931.Wayne Curtis
"Tulsa's Deco Gems: How an Oklahoma city fell in love with art deco and never really got over it"
''

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'', July/August 2008. The precise extent of Goff's and Robinson's respective contributions to the church remains controversial.Gene Curtis
"Dispute rages over church's designer"
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'', December 25, 2006. Goff and Robinson also collaborated on the design of Robinson's own house, built 1927–1929, and now listed as an Art Deco landmark in Tulsa's Tracy Park Historic District. The house was finished by another Robinson student, Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. who also became an important Tulsa architect and later worked on another city landmark,

. In 1928, Robinson established and headed the art department at the

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. She redesigned the interiors of several other notable Tulsa churches. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tulsa in 1936. From 1945 to 1959 she chaired the art department at

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, in

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, Texas. She died in Tulsa in 1962.Dianna Everett
"Robinson, Adah Matilda (1882–1962)"
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br>''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.

Isabelle Ronan

Isabelle Ronan, who taught at Tulsa Central from 1922 to 1955, became a well-known mentor for students interested in performing arts and broadcasting. In the words of a 1997 ''

'' article,

Teacher of Paul Harvey

One of Ronan's most famous students was radio legend

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, then named Paul Harvey Aurandt. Harvey credited Ronan with getting his career started at the age of 14. Harvey said that Ronan was "impressed by his voice".Rick Kogan
"Good days for Paul Harvey"
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'', August 4, 2002.

She took me by the hand and marched me down to KVOO, and said this young man ought to be on the radio. She just wouldn't accept no. So I did my school chores in the daytime and hung around the radio station so many hours at night that they finally put me on the payroll to limit those hours.Joe Howard
"Paul Harvey: A Legend Looks Back"
, ''
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'', November 2, 2006.

Harvey told this story in repeated interviews. He also paid tribute to Ronan in a nostalgic 1994 radio broadcast delivered after he had returned to Tulsa for a fundraising banquet.

Other notable Ronan students

In addition to Paul Harvey, other Ronan students at Tulsa Central who went on to professional success in broadcasting or the performing arts included: *

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(Arthur Leonard Rosenberg), stage, film, and television actor. * Mary Stuart (Mary Stuart Houchins), actress who starred for 35 years as the character

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on the television soap opera ''

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''. *

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(Daniel Croskery),

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artist who was especially well known for his work in famous commercials, including as the announcer who said "Sorry, Charlie" in the

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commercials for

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. *Frank Morrow, broadcaster, co-producer of the long-running and nationally distributed

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cable TV program '' Alternative Views''."Central High alumni; Miss Isabelle Ronan, teacher"
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''Tulsa TV Memories''
*Jack Eddleman, stage actor and director. *Jim Ruddle, NBC News correspondent and longtime radio/TV news anchor in Chicago.

Notable coaches

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began his head coaching career at Tulsa Central, where he coached 1959–1966 before going on to become one of only seven major men's

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coaches to have over 800 career wins."Thursday a big day for Central"
''

'', September 23, 2001.

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coached

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at Tulsa Central in 1956 before moving on to the college and professional ranks, most notably for eight years as the head coach at

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. Art Griffith was the

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coach at Tulsa Central for 15 years, winning ten state and two national wrestling tournaments. He moved on to

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in 1941, where he led the Cowboys to 8 national championships and was elected to the

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. Griffith's successor at Tulsa Central was Rex Peery, who later became the

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coach, and was also elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Notable alumni

In addition to the Adah Robinson and Isabelle Ronan students mentioned above, other notable persons who attended Tulsa Central include: *

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pioneer *

Ralph Blane Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Life and career Blane was born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Tulsa Central High School. He studied singing with ...

, composer and lyricist *

Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in ...

, historian and 12th

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1975–1987 *

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, artist & and poet, co-founder of ''The White Dove Review'' as a Central High studentKline, Joshua
''The White Dove Review: How a Group of Tulsa Teens Created a Literary Legend''
This Land Press (2010). * Jim R. Caldwell, Class of 1954, former member of the

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; retired in Tulsa *

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, singer-songwriter, pioneer of The Tulsa Sound *

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, rock music pianist *

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, television broadcaster, co-host of the ''

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'' *

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, president of the

, 1958–1967 *

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, former head coach of the

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program. *

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from OklahomaAndrea Eger
"Central grads to be honored"
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'', November 12, 2000. * Brandon Jenkins, singer-songwriter from

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who sang in the choir, and taught himself guitar. *

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, chairman of

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, philanthropist, ranked as one of the richest people in the world *

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, longtime

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promoter *

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, head

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coach at

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1963–1990 *

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, major-league baseball player, 1946-1958. *

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, poet & writer, co-founder of ''The White Dove Review'' as a Central High student *

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, former Assistant chief of the Tulsa Police Department. *

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, double recipient of the Air Force Cross * Charles Schusterman, oilman, founder of Samson Investment Company; philanthropist, founder of Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation. *

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recipient *

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basketball player *

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coach *

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, 1993–1995 *

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References

External links

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