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

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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

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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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xcriing courses offered of CHS xperience iT now Schedules, schedules, sched- ules. Many sTudenTs despise Trying To figure ouT Their four-year plan wheTher They are college-bound or wanfing To make iT on Their own. Popular courses change from year To yeor. Some of The classes ThoT are Taken by o wide range of sfudenfs are compufer sci- ence, biology and advanced bi- ology, conservafion, physiology, and foods. Typing is a class Thaf nearly ev- ery high school sTudenT wanfs To Take and many are Turned away simply because There is noT enough sfoff To handle The flow. Typing is one of The few classes offered all six hours wifh several hours having Two classes. Taking a class Thaf seems inTer- esfing is greaf if your schedules can afford iT. PoinTing I would be fun if you weren'T graded on your skill, commenfed Kim Klocke. lf you wanf To work hard and have fun puffing your imaginofion To use, Karen lvlous recommends decorafive arTs. Too many courses Token only wifh fun in mind can be mislead- ing if you wonT To go To college. STondards for area colleges ore being raised and Taking non-col- legiafe courses is being discour- aged. College is noT for everyone. So- ciefy has o difficulf Time occepf- ing ThaT, buT some people jusT shouldn'T go To college. This doesn'T mean, however, Thaf people who don'T go To college are noT a success. Many people never go To college and are suc- cessful, whefher They received Their Training Through Technicol School or on-The-job Troining. lf you are going To aTTend col- lege, Taking college composifion and receiving college crediT Through ST. Louis Universify con be helpful and Time-saving for many college freshmen. For fun ond valuable learning. an exfremely populor class is Psy- chology. Maybe Psychology is for everyone! lvlosf ony class af OHS would be worfh your Time if you have po- Tience, are willing To learn, and wanT To puf your all inTo iT. Nancy Adams: School Nurse Russ Amrein: Algebra I, Geomefry. Advanced Algebra and Trigonomefry, ond AssisTdnT Foofboll Cooch Barb Anderson: Foods l ond ll, Family Living. Child Developemenf, ond Spon- sor for STudenT Council Ellen Baker: English on The Job, Ameri- can Novel, Yearbook workshop, ond sponsor of The Yearbook Paf Bauer: Music Appreciofion. Vocal Ensemble, Special Chorus, Mixed Cho- rus, Assisfdnf band direcfor Dorothy Bauman: Accounfing l, Shorf- hand l, Typing l Paullne Blas: TypewrlTing l ond ll Mike Bishop: STudy Holi swf'-5 . umm mi Wi? WWWWQBMETW