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

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ul silw TNQ CREATE TCDIVIORRCDW Eyes ore slowly drooping, The hedd finolly fdlls inTo The open book os The clock chimes Two o'clock. Acodemics were The couse of our endless hours of sTudying ond sleepless nighTs. Even Though we come To school wiTh circles under our eyes, we knew iT wds worThwhile. We gdined knowledge ThdT would help us in boTh our everyddy lives dnd when we enTered The work- ing world. Our freshmen ond sophomore yedrs we sTruggled Through dll The bosic cldsses To prepore us for The nexT yedrs. In Bdsics I we could never undersTdnd why knowing where To puT d commd wds so imporTdnT, buT dfTer re- ceiving F dfTer F in college com- posiTion cldss, we cleorly knew why. The firsT yedrs were o breeze. ond we could slock off, bodsTed senior Robbin Knopp. buT now iT's hdrd, The hordesT pdrT of going To school wcls geT- Ting Through Those Two yedrs of required courses. Once we goT Through dll Those, iT wds dll down- hill. Downhill iT wds, especiolly for grddes. We never knew whdT sTudying wds unTil we Took physiology, college dlgebro, col- Acodemic Division lege composiTion, ond LdTin. These were noT dT dll like The bo- sic cldsses. AfTer The shock wore off, we ddjusTed ond worked horder. Seniors were sTudying like never before. ds confirmed by Didne LofTon, 'Before my senior yeor I never knew whdT sTudying ocTuolly wds, buT now I cdn'T even counT how mdny hours I sTudy. Tedchers did dn excellenT job of moking college o reoliTy. AfTer The work wds hdrd, iT be- come hdrder. ond receiving col- lege crediT redlly puT The pressure on. During school we ledrned noT only how To reod ond wriTe, buT dlso how To be prompT dnd effi- cienT. Junior Lourd Sokup remem- bers o Time when Mr. Ndber gdve her d Tordy for being five seconds ldTe, buT she replied, AT ledsT now l'm never ldTe. Acddemics gove us d TdsTe of our fuTure life ond expdnded our knowledge. We spenT so much Time comploining obouT The homework, TesTs, dnd quizes ThdT we never Took The Time To Thdnk Those who fulfilled our desire To ledrn. Those people ore The Tedchers. We Thdnk Them for mdking The poTh for our fuTure.

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-I Flipping the files, Mark Gaies searches for his needed book during Language Arts class. Typing errors are cl No No senior Julie Allen poinis oui To Junior Kathy Stephen. Lending ca helping hand, Mr. Bowers Touches Vicki Ruiier wiih his Teaching abil- iiy during Geo Science ll class. Academic Division 91