Update: A reader kindly left this comment -- Sister Mary Denis taught English and Religion into the 1980's. Thank you for that. She has also passed away. In pace requiescat.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sister Mary Dennis Ogle
Sister Mary Dennis Ogle was connected to the teaching staff at OCHS, but I am unsure how and would welcome comments filling me in.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Miss Hendricks
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
High School Foyer
I can't remember what we were waiting for in the foyer of the high school, but this was my Grade 13 class. Left to right Victor Suppan (checked pants), Bob Hickey (back to camera), Marc Adams, Carolyn Corrigan (face partially hidden), Nicole Gaboury (sideways away from camera), Sue Vitali, unknown, unknown, Suzanne Nadon (far right).
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Graham See Clowning Around the Christmas Tree
With a Christmas tree ornament stuck to his nose, Graham See plays the clown at Christmas.
Meanwhile for something completely different:
Meanwhile for something completely different:
While going through my Kodachrome archives, I came across the following graphics. One year (1972, I believe), the illustrated book "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was in my stocking. For some inexplicable reason, I started photographing the pages with Kodachrome slide film. The scanned Kodachrome images were in my archives from the 1970's and I include them as a nostalgic look back:
And on a non-Christmas theme, the computer science class went to Durham College when Art Chai taught us Cobol in Grade 12. The computer students at Durham College were adept at making ASCII art. Back in the day, the only type of computer printers were the large impact printers with the perforations for the spokes to pull the paper through the printer.
The Durham College students made the huge ASCII art mural of Sylvester the Cat with various letters and characters on the keyboard. I photographed that too, and created a bit of an inset of Sylvester's face to show how the X's, M's and periods were combined to make the "art".
I have no explanation as to why I took these photos other than there was film in the camera, and as the old saying goes "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
I have no explanation as to why I took these photos other than there was film in the camera, and as the old saying goes "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Ruth Nicholls
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Linda Langero, Math Teacher
Monday, December 21, 2009
Oliver Pace
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Bill Langley
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Bill Higgins with eyes closed
Friday, December 18, 2009
Chess Club in Action
Pictured left to right: Doug Hamlyn's younger brother (thanks for the correction) someone who's first name I can't remember, Don Hamlyn, Francis Kreisz, foreground ... unknown, center- Kevin Duignan, sitting on desk - unknown, standing at right is Mike Ivanco.
Update -- a reader left this comment: Sitting on the desk playing chess with Don Hamlyn is Larry Burrows. Don Hamlyn is indeed Doug Hamlyn's younger brother.
Thank you. That is what I thought as well. Don Hamlyn is Doug's younger brother and another student that I have been communicating with confirmed it.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Mrs. Jones
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Blair Morris with Autograph
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Mr. Gentry Serenades Sister Conrad
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Dan Dalby Playing Cards
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Miss Gardini and Stella Barnett
I don't remember how Miss Gardini fit into the picture of the staff of OCHS. I don't even remember her first name. I invite comments to explain. Stella Barnett, the typing and business teacher is in the background.
Update 11/04/2017 - I just heard from Gloria Wrobel who was in Miss Gardini's French class in Grade 9 in 1974. So the mystery is solved for me. She was a languages teacher.
Update 11/04/2017 - I just heard from Gloria Wrobel who was in Miss Gardini's French class in Grade 9 in 1974. So the mystery is solved for me. She was a languages teacher.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Cafeteria Ladies
The cafeteria ladies were characters that could have stepped right out of the scene of a "Laverne and Shirley" television episode. Mrs. Hickie is on the left and Mrs. Dorothea Dugan is on the right. Student Judy McLinton peers through the doors.
I decoded some of the sign behind them with the 1974 prices. Here is a partial list of what we paid to eat in high school:
- Sandwiches Meat 35 cents
- Sandwiches Non Meat 30 cents
- Pizza, Hotdogs 25 cents
- French Fries 15 cents
- White milk 15 cents
- Chocolate Milk 15 cents
- Ice Cream 15 cents
- Chips 10 cents
My favourite were the pizzas, although in retrospect, they are probably like the no-name frozen little rounds that you get now. They were a treat back then.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sister Conrad Lauber Watching Football
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
John Donkers Reading Newspaper
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Colleen Bulger & Doug Zochodne
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Taking a break again
I am busily preparing for my speech and workshop at the Sheraton in Nassau, so I probably won't post for a few days. If you are in Nassau on the Cable Beach strip, drop in, say hello, check out the booths and have a great time. HP is giving away a laptop a day for the three days that the expo runs. See you next week with more OCHS memories.
Bev Ferguson
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Russell Dupuis
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
In the Back of the School Yard
I was standing in the corridor at the front entrance of the school near the office when through the glass, I saw the girls in the school yard. I snapped the pic. Below is an enlargement. The only person that I recognize is Cheryl Hambly.
You will note the wide expanse of grass and trees, and then nothing in the fields beyond the schools. I understand that this area of the schoolyard is all built in, and there is a subdivision now of some sort behind the school.
You will note the wide expanse of grass and trees, and then nothing in the fields beyond the schools. I understand that this area of the schoolyard is all built in, and there is a subdivision now of some sort behind the school.
Update: A reader left this comment: Laura Mozic - far left, foreground. Vicki Smegal - facing camera, hand brushing back hair.
PS -- It is good to be back in the tropics. I left behind the first snowfall of the season back in Canada.
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