Daniel Webster High School is a high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Tulsa Public Schools, and is a public school for students from grades 9 through 12. The school opened in 1938 in the West Tulsa section of the city, and is housed in a PWA-style Art Deco building designed by architects Arthur M. Atkinson, John Duncan Forsyth, Raymond Kerr, and William H. Wolaver.
In 2021, Daniel Webster High School was placed on the National Historic Registry.
In 2009, the school established a broadcasting and digital media magnet school program.
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Facility description
The main building is two stories high plus a full basement. It contains 15 classrooms, a library, two cafeterias, a lecture room, a corrective gymnasium, a girls' gymnasium, a 400-seat auditorium, a domestic-science department, two manual training rooms, three laboratories, offices, and dressing rooms. An adjacent building contains shops, a boys' gymnasium, and lockers. Both buildings are made of fireproof construction with exterior walls of brick and trimmed with stone.
Notable alumni
Bob Ballinger - member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Berryville, Arkansas
Chris Benge - speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
Bill Borders - former Olympian wrestler and attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dick Calmus - former major league baseball pitcher
Carl Morton - former major league baseball pitcher
Patti Page - singer, 2013 recipient of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Howard Rutledge (Class of 1946) - Vietnam POW for 7 1/2 yrs; wrote book In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Mitch Schauer - television producer and animator, The Angry Beavers