Oakville Senior High School - Tiger Paw Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Expansion of Telegraph Road is o mo- jor obsiocle for Ookville clrivers. l'The noise and Troffic gel worse everdoy! cries Dor- line Ogenl whose house lies righl on Tele- graph, Slandlng proud, Trlger Bond, Golden Girls, ond Flog Teom Receive Their number one roiing in The Velerorfs Doy Porode. Taxl doors open for Rochelle Wrogs os she prepores for her long ride home. Closing - 163

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162 Dress code, video invades Oakville Oakville is a changing and growing communiTy and school. As iTs sTrong rooTs spread in The soil of ST. Louis many changes oc- cur. As changes occur we as people musT adapT To Them. AdapTing To biTTer cold weaTh- er in December and January was noT easy buT adapTing To The ex- pansion of Telegraph was even harder. Rush hour seems even worse wiTh consTrucTion from Yaeger Road To Chrisfopher Drive. ' Oakville fooTbaIl fans adapTed To games on Friday nighT insTead of on SaTurday afTernoon. The new llghTs on The field were well liked. Homecoming game and parade were boTh on Friday nighT wiTh The dance on SaTurday. Rush hour found floaTs of celebraTing sTudenTs Tying up Traffic. I liked The games on Friday nighTs, commenTed Lisa Finke. i'buT I sTill like Homecoming on SaTurday wiTh The bonfire The nighT before. AdapTing To a new school was a big challenge for The volunTary desegregafion sTudenTs. 'il have enjoyed being ouT here. The peo- ple and Teachers have been greaT, buT The TransporTaTion is roTTen, replies Alvin Taylor. Oakville was privileged enough To have a foreign exchange sTu- denT aTTending school here. Monica Orsini, from Brazil, sTayed only a semesTer buT her presence lefT us memories for years. A warm, friendly smile and a helping hand welcomed Them To Oak- ville, Their new home. Home is where a IoT of people surprisingly spenf Their Time sTarT- ing aT The beginning of The school year. Cable TV spread iTs rooTs inTo The Oakville area aTTracTing - Closing many enThusiasTic movie lovers and video maniacs. T'The Thing I like mosT abouT cable is ThaT I can waTch all The movies and noT have To pay for Them, replied Amy Coursen. ShorTs, mini skirTs, and sugges- Tive Top wear were ouTIawed by a so-called dress code issued by The Ivlehlville Board of EducaTion. Though iT died ouT wiThin a few days of school and shorTs were once more permiTTed, iT sure had The jocks worried for a while. 'il really didn'T care abouT wearing shorTs because I haTe my Iegs, fIaunTed Cindy Lee. Worried couldn'T express The look of sTudenTs afTer Their food fighT during A lunch lefT The cafe- Teria looking like a baTTIezone. Food was flying everywhere, recolIecTs Laura Burkemper, Then everyone cleared Their Ta- bles and ran. Some people even wenT under The Table! Besides cleaning ThaT up, The cafeTeria cleaned ouT The sporks and once more broughT sTeel forks and spoons back as uTensils. Impressive was definiTely The ThoughT of The VeTeran's Day Pa- rade judges who picked The Oak- ville Tiger Band as number one in The parade. In Their honor a day and ceremony were given for Them. If one day could predicT The fu- Ture Oakville would be in Trouble. The firsT day of school found The office and fronT hallway flooded wiTh waTer from a broken waTer piple. We live however To Tell The opposiTe. IT has been a greaf year for Oakville Sr. High and The communiTy sTrengThening The growing rooTs and making Them as one. AX . . -' .... . ..-...N-'- I x. i I I

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Good-bye ldsTs o second, memories losT d lifeTime iT doesn'T hiT you unTil you're o Senior. All of o sudden high school's gone ond you'll never experience iT ogoin. We wished we were Seniors our Freshmen yeor so we would hove known Then whoT we know now. All we wonT To do is Tolk To The Freshmen ond Tell Them whoT They should do. WhoT would we soy? We would soy, Live your life To The fuiiesf, forgeT Those peTTy squob- bles, ond moke every siTuoTion o posiTive one. BuT Then we know iT wouldn'T moTTer whoT we soid To Them becouse we remember how we felT Towords odvice. if only we would hove known Then whoT we know now, if only we would hove lisTened. We remembered our Freshmen yeor looking up To Those mo- Ture seniors. We felT like o normol person, buT Those seniors were gods We wouldn'T dore wolk in jock hoIl for some senior mighT recognize we were Fresh- mon. lf o Senior singled us ouT ond soid l'hi, we would die. Well, we remembered Those yeors ond sold we were going To moke seri- ous efforTs To Tolk To ond geT To know The Freshmen. BuT now os seniors we don'T even know who's o Freshmen or noi, ond They're so ouT of reoch from us. We reolize os o senior ThoT iT wos silly being ofroid of Seniors be- couse They ore people, Too. if only we would hove known Then whoT we know now. As on underclossmen, we wenT Through mony emborossing mo- menTs ThoT eiTher mode us or 1611 - Closing broke us. AT The Time we ThoughT we were ruined. Everyone is go- ing To remember ond Teose me, we ThoughT. BuT, being o senior we lough oT Those Times ond reol- ize ThoT everyone goes Through Those momenTs. lf only we would hove known Then whoT we know now. Then There were Those Teoch- ers we couldn'T hove unTil we were on upperclossmon. We re- member seeing The Seniors work- ing nighTly for college composi- Tion ond Tolking obouT The dreod- ed moTh Teocher Mr. Nold. BuT, now os seniors we reolize working on college composiTion isn'T so frighTful ond ocTuolly lvlr. Nold is o pussy coT. lf only we would hove known Then whoT we know now. As The yeor comes To on end, we remember The Times we loughed, The Times we cried. Ro- meo ond JulieT, Piekorski's ploying gold, Brodley's roTs, being ofroid To go To The boord ond exploin o moTh problem, lvir. Eyre's spider, squore doncing, Mr. Amrein's punTs, food fighTs, ond our friends. By The end of our Senior yeor, school wos geTTing old, ond we hod losT our enThusiosm. BuT when iT come Time To soy good-bye, we didn'T know how To soy good- bye. When we hove oil gone our seporoTe woys, we ore going To Think of Things we wished we would hove sold To friends, Teochers, ond porenTs. Then we would soy, Ulf only we would hove soid Then whoT we wonT To soy now.