title: Okeene Junior-Senior High School
text: # Okeene Junior-Senior High School
  
  Okeene Junior-Senior High school is a public school serving students in grades 7 through 12 in Okeene, Oklahoma. It has currently enrolled under 200 students(counting grade school as well)
  
  ## History
  
  The first school in Okeene was established in 1901. A high school program was added in the 1920s, making Okeene the first town in Blaine County with a high school.
  
  ## Extracurricular activities
  
  Student groups and organizations at Okeene include band, FCCLA, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, FFA, National Honor Society, science club, speech, Academic Bowl, student council and Technology Student Association.
  
  ### Athletics
  
  The Okeene Whippets compete in Class A of Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association sports, currently fielding teams in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, softball, and track.
  
  State championship titles held by the Whippets include:
  
  * Boys' basketball: 2006
  * Football: 1981 (Class B), 2006, 2007
  * Girls' track: 2003, 2004, 2005
  * Boys' track: 2010, 2017
  
  ## Notable alumni
  
  * Jake Lindsay (class of 1937), businessman; namesake of an endowed scholarship and two chairs at Northwestern Oklahoma State University
  * Donald Dumler (class of 1957), principal organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
  