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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Football player Andre Grotenhuis stands on the sidelines during a game on the home field.
More faces in the crowd at Kangaroo Court and student initiations.
I snapped the above pic of the Bowmanville High School cheerleaders after our OCHS team defeated Bowmanville.
Pictured from left to right at the microphone are Frances Schillings, Peter Ten Haaf, and Gloria Chisholm.
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.
At the girl's flag football game, Carolyn Corrigan and Elsa Lack among others are seen in the huddle.
Kathy Seaver waves from her seat in the bus. Arthur Chai the teacher is in the foreground.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I asked Joe Pender to sign this photograph, he took out a pen with violet ink and signed "Heh! Heh! Heh! J. Pender".
Doug Hamlyn sits pensively on top the desk in Geography class. Ed Johansen is in the background.
Sister Mary Dennis Ogle was connected to the teaching staff at OCHS, but I am unsure how and would welcome comments filling me in.
At least that how Gary Ranalli thought what I thought when I asked him to autograph his picture.
Miss Hendricks was apparently on staff. I have no recollection of her, or what she taught. I invite comments to fill me in.
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).
With a Christmas tree ornament stuck to his nose, Graham See plays the clown at Christmas.
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".
Ruth Nicholls taught English when I was at OCHS. I believe that this was her first year of teaching at OCHS when this photo was snapped.
