Stephen Ma

Math teacher and guidance counselor Arthur Chai used to sponsor Chinese students from Hong Kong. There were 5 or 6 of them in my class. Pictured above is Stephen Ma, having a bite to eat. To the right with her back turned, is Sue Vitali having a chat with someone.

Gloria Chisholm in the School Play

Gloria Chisholm is in a school play on stage in the auditorium. I can't remember any of the details, and neither can Gloria. She was amazed that this photo of her existed (we are both on Facebook -- drop me a line if you want to "friend" me -- I have a Facebook alias), and Gloria could not even recall this event.

Size Differential

I hurriedly snapped this pic to show the size differential between Andre Grotenhuis and teacher Gary Ranalli. Andre is in the black leather jacket, and no he is not standing on anything. He was a tall individual, and this photograph shows just how tall.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas. If you have enjoyed these memories of OCHS, drop me a line. I hope that all of your days are merry and bright this holiday season and into the years ahead.

Ken

Interim Report Card

Interim Report Card from November 1970. These were printed on spirit duplication machines. That year, my English teacher was Tony Meagher -- later a priest and eventually a bishop. Those are his initials in the English section. In Science it was Frank Sachetti who initialed here. I just remembered the French teacher -- it was Mrs. Kearns. I don't have a photo of her. And Ruth Nicholls taught typing that year. I have never regretted taking typing. (Click on the photo for a bigger picture).

Classroom shot

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Kevin Duignan & Terry Hopkins

This photo is from the kangaroo court series and student initiation. Here Kevin Duignan is about to receive his punishment from Terry Hopkins (left).

Odds and Ends From the Memory Box

In Grade 12 Biology, Henry Kowalewski and I sat behind Colleen Bulger and Patricia (Pat) Kilistoff. They were fooling around and decided to sign my paper. Colleen at the time was writing everything in mirror writing. "Killer" is Pat Kilistoff. I popped the fragment into a scrapbook.

I took this shot in 1969. It was boys wrestling in the gym. Joe Simiana is the top guy. I can't remember who was on the bottom in this shot.
And finally a blurry Vince Gedge in front of the stage. This was in the 1969 series negatives.

Card Playing

In all of my negatives, I am amazed at how many shots that I have of students playing cards throughout my high school years. It seems that cards were the timewasters instead of the internet now. I recognize some of the people in this pic, because there is another one in the same sequence. People that I can identify include Sharon Clark, Dan Dalby and Mary Coll.

It must have been near Christmas time or holiday time when much wasn't going on in the scholastics department. The clock on the wall says that it is seven minutes after ten in the morning.

Student ID Cards

When I started OCHS, we never had student ID cards. Then they came with the photography package each year. Here are a couple of samples of mine in two consecutive years. I could be wrong, but perhaps 1971 was the first year that these were introduced.

Cold Spectators

A group of OCHS students braved the cold day to travel to Bowmanville High School and watch the OCHS Saints trounce the Bowmanville Redmen. Pictured are Karen Smegal, unidentified, and Cathy Montgomery. On the left in the background are the Bowmanville High School cheerleaders.

Geography Club Almanac

Blair Morris was a geography teacher and also the staff resource for the geography club. I was a member. We put out an almanac that we sold around the school for 5 cents. This is the original artwork for the second edition of the almanac.

Band Pics

More pics of the "Downchild Blues Band" when they played at a school dance. John Coleman told me that he and Leo Barrett hired this band for this dance for princely sum of $500 in the early 1970's.

Photo Montage -- Kangaroo Court

I can't remember why this photo montage was created, but it was of kangaroo court and student initiations. In the top part we have teachers, left to right: Richard Wierfeldt (partially hidden), Bill Langley, Pat O'Brien, Jack Macchione, Sister Mary Jane Trimble, (unknown), and then Father Gary Harrison. In the bottom half of kangaroo court, I can only identify Joe Fitzpatrick, Kathy Taylor (the judge), Danny Cannon (paint on face) and Chuck Fairhart.

In From The Cold

Winter couldn't defeat the mini skirt in the 1970's.

Carolyn Corrigan

A vignette portrait of Carolyn Corrigan done in the OCHS photo club lab as part of our learning-techniques activities.

Sadie Hawkins Day Dance "Marriage"

This was the first "marriage" at the Sadie Hawkins Day Dance at OCHS. Lucy Jana kisses her date (his first name was Gary ... can't remember last name). Lucy was in Grade 10 and Gary was in Grade 12 or Grade 13, so all of the Grade 10 boys knew that they didn't have a chance of dating Lucy. Leo Barrett (RIP), acting as "Marryin' Sam" is hidden by the kissing couple, but you can make him out on the right.

Thanks to the poster who identified: Gary McCormick as the putative "husband". Thanks.

John Ten Haaf at Graduation

John Ten Haaf at his graduation from OCHS.

Elizabeth Deveaux

A portrait of classmate Elizabeth Deveaux done in the OCHS Photography Club darkroom/lab.

At The Dance

At the dance in the auditorium, Joe Pender is shown with his wife and an unidentified student along with his date. I would imagine that this was 1971 or thereabouts.

Yearbook Staff

Yearbook staff. Back Row (left to right) Joanne Robinson, Judy Bradt, Anne McNeely

Middle Row: Graham See, Cathy Murrant, Judy Leveque, Marie Gallacher, Kathy Mendyk, Carla Franssen, Geraldine Connelly, Sue Cunningham, John Stefaniak, Don Hamlyn

Front row: Maureen Thomas, Joanne Snowdon, Sharon Vitali