More of My 1970 Class ~ Part V

Left to Right, Top to Bottom: John Coleman, Susan Cragg, Larry Cyr, Joan Downey, Dan Dalby, George Dragota, Paula Delaney, Rosemary Duignan, Susan Dickey, Linda DuPont

Tell Me on a Sunday Memories

Another Sunday morning and another grab bag of memories, of OCHS, the 1970's, memorabilia, Oshawa and stuff. I start with with another block of classmates of mine:

Top row: Kathie Andrews (R.I.P.), yours truly, Mike Bukoski,

Center Row: David Cooper, Carolyn Corrigan, Paul Coros,

Bottom Row: Joan Downey, George Dragota, Barb Finley

The above political cartoon is a real sign of the times back then. To me it accurately depicts the divide between the establishment and the beat generation or the youth. I did some googling to try and identify the Trudeau cabinet minister from 1973 doling out the largesse to the hippies, but to no avail yet. (Update: Pictured above, I believe is Secretary of State Gerard Pelletier of the Trudeau cabinet, responsible for the OFY program).

Pictured above is a bicycle speedometer from one of my bikes from the high school era.

Everyone remembers giving these for Christmas and Valentine's Day. Black Magic was made by Rowntree Mackintosh, a British company selling in the Commonwealth as well.

This funky box was in the garage, so I photographed it for posterity. Check out the depiction of the TV in the drawing at the upper right.

I snapped the above frame in the Eatons Department Store at the Oshawa Center. I worked there in the camera department all through my high school years.

(Interestingly enough, I think that I can make out the word Sears in the upper right. Yet I know for a fact that this is Eatons because I have a whole series of pics of my Eatons co-workers with the same background as above).

I believe that the above is a program from the re-dedication of the school from OCHS to Paul Dwyer High School in 1976.

Shawn O'Driscoll's Band -- Talent Show

We regularly had talent shows. At this particular one, Shawn O'Driscoll is playing with his band. He has George Dragota playing bass (far back). Another guitarist is to the right out of the picture.

Spectators

On a warm Indian Summer day, the student body assembled to watch a football game. I shot a few frames of the spectators. The only students that I can identify here are Cheryl Hambly (far left), Debbie Sutherland (front, back to camera), Christie Marks (kneeling facing camera right) and George Dragota, the only male in the picture.

Update: Laura Mozic is kneeling between Cheryl & Christy