Orange Union High School - Orange and White Yearbook (Orange, CA)

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V A sdluk t se w )o wlVf) mlcdm MR. JAY CUMMINGS Known to almost every student in Orange High School as the genial, efficient keeper of the student store, Mr. Jay Cummings, commercial teacher at OHS for 34 years, is retiring. Kansas-born Mr. Cummings worked his way through college and came to Orange to teach, by his own estimate, more than four thousand students in two generations. He was faculty advisor for the ORANGE AND WHITE for fifteen years. Few instructors at Orange have had such an influence or such an opportunity to mould the traditions of a high school as he. Mr. Cummings plans to continue his bookkeeping work as well as his hobbies; hunting, fishing, painting and studying the financial news will make his an active retirement. Mainly, I plan to do as I please, he says; but I want to be away from home when school time rolls around again ne.xt September. The ORANGE AND WHITE salutes Mr. Jay Cummings, a veteran teacher, a perceptive artist, a witty conversationalist, and a great, good friend of students through the years.

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mice M serve . . . verjhc tke scenes Senior Dennis Kirkpatrick has no problem that could twt be resolved by OHS counselors Mr. George Olds, Mrs. Jcanette Christopher, Mrs. Helen McConnell, Miss Grace Robertson and Mr. Floyd Dunning. Comparable in their capacity to backstage prompters, the comiselors help all OHS students plan their programs and prepare for an uncertain, complex future. Their duties extend beyond the academic field of program planning, test interjDretation and career guidance into the realm of helping students with personal problems. Mrs. Helen McConnell earned her M.A. degree at Colorado State College and, a newcomer to Orange, handles freshmen and junior girls. Mr. Floyd Dunning, who received his M.A. at Oklahoma University, counsels freshman and junior boys. Mrs. Jeanette Chi istopher counsels sophomore girls. Miss Grace Robertson, guls ' vice-principal, advises senior girls. Mr. George Olds has an M.A. from Whittier College and is sophomore and senior boys advisor. Mr. William E. Montanna, boys ' vice-principal, received his M.S. at USC. A staff meeting in Principal Verrill A. Townsend ' s office britigs Mr. Andy Edicards, head custodian; Miss Grace Robertson, girls ' vice-principal; Mrs. Dora Pierce, principal ' s .secretary; Mrs. Doris Hohnan, bookkeeper; Mr. Townsend; Mrs. Marjorie Liggett, sicitchboard operator; and Mr. Bill Montanna, boys ' vice-principal.

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vujMKCii M W(iYm TYiendliMSS tea,ol) us MRS. JEANETTE CHRISTOPHER Call, Chris, and the woman who looks up and grins is that jack of all trades, Mrs. Jeanette Chilstopher. Under her direction THE REFLECTOR has won five Freedom Foundation awards for the promotion of the credo of the American way of life, All-American honors three times, and best all-around newspaper in Orange County three times. At least thirty of her former students have made careers of journalism. Long a teacher of the fourth estate as expressed in THE REFLECTOR and the ORANGE AND WHITE, Mrs. Christopher has stamped her own credo in the mind and character of each of her students. An example herself of all she affirms, Chris insists that each journahst be dependable, loyal, accurate, courageous and humorous. Leave them laughing, she says — and even she who has undergone radical surgery twice recently still does just that. The ORANGE AND WHITE salutes Mrs. Jeanette Christopher, linguist, dramatist, author, orator, jomnalist, teacher, counselor, diplomat and friend.