Sunday, January 31, 2010

Building Near OCHS

I got a new camera. It was a Russian made single lens reflex called a Zenit. It took Pentax lenses. It was incredibly cheap and inexpensive. I had to try it out.

I exited the high school, crossed Rossland Road and started walking. Somewhere around the school, I took this picture with my new Zenit camera.

This is what my Zenit looked like. The year was 1972.


Saturday, January 30, 2010

Fine Young Cannibal

This is truly an effective Halloween costume taken at the 1970 or 1971 Halloween Dance at OCHS. I have no idea who is behind it. The fine young cannibal has chicken bones attached to his shirt.

Friday, January 29, 2010

New Teacher Lineup

At kangaroo court and student initiation, the new teachers were singled out and told to stand and line up. This photo was snapped in September of 1970 I believe. From left to right is Sister Mary Jane Trimble, unknown and Father Gary Harrison. At the far left in the background, teacher Joe Pender can be seen.

Comments are invited to fill in the blanks about how these teachers fit into the grand scheme of OCHS staffing. I know that Father Gary Harrison taught religious studies, but I don't know much about the other two teachers featured here.

Update: Thank you for the comment. The teacher in the middle is Miss D'Angelo who taught English.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Urban Studies and Other Locale Photos

Below is a series of photos that appear on my negative collection interspersed with student pictures of OCHS. They are images that I snapped of the locale -- Oshawa and environs during the 1970's. Some were done for my Urban Studies assignment on the coming of regional government (yes when I started high school, there was no region of Durham). Others are random shots that just grabbed my eye.

Stevenson Road and Eastdale (Doh !!!) R.S. McLaughlin Collegiate:
The above image came from Urban Studies Fly Day, where geography and Urban Studies teacher Blair Morris arranged for us to fly over Oshawa to look at city patterns. This shot is of Stevenson Road near the high school. You can see RS. McLaughlin Collegiate (thanks for the correction), and the Durham School Board building. The high school is just out of the picture in the upper left. Notice all of the empty fields around the school.


On the 401, going towards Toronto:
Strangely enough, I remember quite vividly taking this picture. We were on a school trip to Stratford, and I was sitting at the back of the bus with Mike Bukoski, and snapped this from the back window of the bus with my Yashica twin lens reflex camera.


The air traffic control tower at the Oshawa Airport:

Aerial shot of the 401 near Ajax:

Something that no longer exists:
With the coming of regional government, we would lose our counties. Oshawa was partly in Ontario County. For my Urban Studies assignments, I decided to snap pictures of the signs that would disappear. This one was taken on Bloor Street on a snowy winter day. Note the "Chargex" sign in the background. Chargex was the name of the Visa card before it was Visa.


Cherney's Furniture World:
While I was on Bloor Street on that winter day, I idly snapped this picture. The building was quite new, and now I believe that it is quite run down. In a lot of ways, I believe that Oshawa was more vibrant during the 1970's than it is now.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Andre Grotenhuis On the Sidelines

Football player Andre Grotenhuis stands on the sidelines during a game on the home field.

Thanks for the comment. Like the person said, it is Kathy Finlay over Andre's shoulder.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Observers at Kangaroo Court

More faces in the crowd at Kangaroo Court and student initiations.

Update: A reader has graciously left an update -- The two lads being "courted" are Mike Byrne (L) and Paul Corey (R)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Bowmanville High School Cheerleaders

I snapped the above pic of the Bowmanville High School cheerleaders after our OCHS team defeated Bowmanville.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Student Assembly on Stage

Pictured from left to right at the microphone are Frances Schillings, Peter Ten Haaf, and Gloria Chisholm.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Sister Conrad Lauber -- A Few Years Later

The above image is not from my archives. It is a photo of Sister Conrad Lauber taken a few years after my era at OCHS. The photo was digitized from a yearbook. It came from a defunct archive website about OCHS.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Flag Football

At the girl's flag football game, Carolyn Corrigan and Elsa Lack among others are seen in the huddle.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Kathy Seaver On The Bus

Kathy Seaver waves from her seat in the bus. Arthur Chai the teacher is in the foreground.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Entrance Way To School

The above picture isn't mine. It came from a Tripod site about OCHS archives that was on the web about five years ago, but has since disappeared. This is the front entrance way, but I am unable to determine the vintage of the photo. It looks very early 1970's or late 1960's.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ernie Kaleny

I don't exactly have access to my image archives yet, however I found a pile of images on another drive. Pictured above is Ernie Kaleny. He was a year or two behind me in high school.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

On Hiatus -- Image Shortage.

I am back in the tropics, and horror of horrors, I left the external hard disk with all of my images back in Canada. I have nothing. Nada. I am going through the terrabyte drive to see if there are any remaining scans that I have here. It doesn't look good. If not, there will be no further additions for a month until I can get someone to get my images to me, or I go back myself. Sorry for the inconvenience. I leave you these 1970's archive pics.













Man, the Mother's Pizza on Ritson Road at King Street still looms large in my memory as the best pizza that I have ever had. I used to have a coke glass from Mother's Pizza as pictured above. I rarely used it, but one day I did. It survived some thirty years and countless moves. My daughter and her boyfriend decided to be nice and do the dishes. The boyfriend broke it while washing dishes. C'est la vie.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Miss Ritchie

I don't know how Miss Ritchie fit into the staff of OCHS because she was new, and our circles didn't intersect. Once again, comments are invited to enlighten me.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Heh! Heh! Heh! Joe Pender

When I asked Joe Pender to sign this photograph, he took out a pen with violet ink and signed "Heh! Heh! Heh! J. Pender".

Friday, January 1, 2010

Doug Hamlyn in Geography Class

Doug Hamlyn sits pensively on top the desk in Geography class. Ed Johansen is in the background.