Orangeville High School - Red and Blue Yearbook (Orangeville, Ontario Canada)

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directing, but more so in the students themselves, who showed so great an interest by their re sponse. These functions have not only brought much gaiety and enjoyment, but also, l believe that they have, and will continue to in- still into each and every participant a sense of greater pride and in- terest in his school. ll ll ll The lst Home Game by Jim McKenzie XI-A The ball was wet, the ground was muddy, And the clouds let down the rainy The players slithered and slipped and slid, As they played their fir st home game. But the fans were there to cheer them on And their mascot barked with glee, And the cheerleaders julnped and cried aloud 'Twas quite a sight to see. The coach tramped up and down the side And yelled and kicked and swore, For if his team lost this first! game Held vowed theyld play no more. So the boys came through and won that game Like veterans of a warg But the coach still cursed and yelled and kicked For he'd lost a bet on the score. H ll ll There once was a girl called Marie Who was stung by quite a large bee, She started to yell And her arm it did swell To the size of the trunk of a tree. by Elaine Cook IX-A ll ll H

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Athletic Nights yby Bill Rohmer XII The start of the 54 - 55 school year at Orangeville District High, saw the formation of two new organizations in our school The Boys' and Girls' Athletic Associations. There, groups were for- med to aid the development of a better and larger sport and social programme for the students. Officers and representatives were elected from the ranks of our student body to form our executive., Many meetings and discus- sions were held to deal with the question of hlow both sports and school social life could be united, to the mutual benefit of all. The result was the opening Athletic Night on October lsttjkttemptsat such a progre amme in our school,hQve been in a sense, an experiment. The response of the students was far greater than the executive had hoped, and was a most gratifying reward to all those who had laboured to make it a success, The programme, which consisted of a volleyball tournament of nine mixed teams of boys and girls and a basketball game between the country and the town boys, ran very smoothly., Also on that schedule was a football film , shown in one of the class-nrooms, and last of all, a soc dance which ended the evening. The success of the first Athletic Night was so pronounced that soon another was planned by the girls. This, unfortunately, met with a serious seteback, when we were visited by an unexpected and overwhelming source of distraction, Hurricane Hazel , However, a few hardy souls managed to slosh their way through the school, and although the group was much smaller than was hoped for, a good time was had by all. Much was learned from the mistakes of the earlier pro:- ductions, and as the weeks passed, better and more interesting pro:- grammes were offered. It was decided that the greatest need was for variety, and with this in mind tournaments in new and different games, such as Q- murder ball, pin ball and one-2-handed volleyball were used. Other ideas were employed also, which developed inter'eSl' Such as drawing cards for sleigh riding parties, square dancing, and the election of a snow queen. From October to early' spring, eight Athletic Nights were held, all of which have been acclaimed as being very successful.. How- ever, this achievement lies not only with those who did the organizing, 9

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The Grade Eleven Form Party by Elgin Keeling Xl- On Friday night January 4, 1955, grade eleven decided to hold its form party in the Mono Centre Community Hall., We had planned to go skating on a pond near by, then go to the Tliall to dance, and the ones who couldnlt dance could participate in the many games that were available. Finally the night rolled around and it turned out to be beautifully clear and frosty, and with the willing help of Allan and Arnold Holmes and Sheila Simpson, who scraped the ice and prepared the hall for the event, everything went as scheduled., Since it was such a nice night with no snow falling, most of grade eleven and the staff of the Orangeville District High School arrived on time to get in scvrne skating before going to the hall. After having a wonderful time every- one went up to the hall where immediately we were arranged in groups for some very :new and interesting games, many of which were un- familiar to me, so I will try to describe a bit of each one.. The first one was a game in which the name of an occupation of a person was given and each group in order had to try to name the vegetable that went with it and if they guessed wrong they lost a mark. For example, the word taxi:-driver was called and the answer was cabbage. Another game which was similar to this was one in which wewgre given hints and had to name a car as a result of the hints, such as the name of a deer with a letter added and the answer was Buick. Another exciting game ,'f but with fatal results to one person wal:-Tiiinvvhich a person had to roll an egg down the floor with his nose and see how fast he could do it, but as I said, one person had a fatal accident and that person was Mr. Gibson who said, he would either make it or break itf' , and he broke it. Other games, were, pass the life saverm, and the most in-Q teresting one of the evening was the one in which a person put an orange under his chin and had to pass it to the next person, who of course was a girl, and put it under her chin without touching it with his hands. QBoy, did some blushl. Finally, the dancing got under way, with the U'Orangeville District High School Dance Band , playing, and in between times the record player was used. There was much roundedancing and square- dancing, but it was so warm in the hall and the windows were all stuck so tightly that we couldnlt stand more than one square dance. Mean- while, in the cellar, while the dancing was going on above there were nutnierous games such as: crokinole, checkers, and decks of cards. By twelve olclock, everyone was out of the hall to pile back in the cars and roar out to the highway to go flying home. l think I can safely say this was one night we will remember for a long time.. ll H ll