Lake Orion High School - Dragon Yearbook (Lake Orion, MI)

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A PRODUCT OF APPRECIATION? Someone lit the art classes silhouettes on fire by the library. ERIC BOURGOYNE ATTENTIVELY draws a line in drawing. TAKING OUT THE TRASH is a pain but so much when you get paid for it like Dori Mandilk. order to get the fifth hour study hall in as soon as possible. The number of volunteers was't great. On certain days only one mother would be working at a time. The monitors' presence has cut down the rate of swirlies immensely this year. The smoke bombings have almost quit and the halls are almost empty. But still the problem of skip- ping hasn't been diminished. It still exists. Another problem is vandalism. This year our problem was fire. Some students would light bulletin boards on fire, never to be caught. l X5 ,f ' The monitors' presence stopped this activity. DAN DENDAL examines his chess board in woodmaking class. SENIOR DALE PAYNE pieces together his stool in woodshop. MR. HOGANSON DISCUSSES bookings of his disco group with a customer. Academics 175

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QM 1 l THE BACKBONE OF LOHS.. .. Everyone knows you can't please some of the people all of the time and you can't please all of the people some of the time either. But you can try. The only credit the cooks get in this school is bad, but people really don't know what goes on in the kitchen. And even the people who complain about the food still buy lunches. And then there is the fact that the cooks are here early every morning to get ready to serve breakfast. Then there are the janitors. They have to go around cleaning up after our messes. Last year they even painted our walls yellow and green. New this year, mothers volunteered to make phone calls for the high school and monitor the halls. Their main duties involved checking for passes and checking the bathrooms for smokers, tokers and jokers. Some helped in the lunch room by helping clean up in 174 Backbone

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THE BACKBONE CF LOHS. .. ln November the Lake Orion School Board approved a trial open lunch program for Lake Orion High School students during first quarter of the 1978-79 school year. To participate, students had to have a signed permission slip from one of their parents. Once they turn- ed in their permission slip they were given a stamped l.D. pass. of the 1,- 520 students, over 600 passes were issued. Once first quarter's trial period was over, the school board reviewed open lunch, then voted on whether or not open lunch would become a permanent part of the school. The 2 or .l,....,,-M an 176 Backbone