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

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Se mi-Final Orat orical Conte st by Myrna Wakefield XII When the students returned to O.,D.H.S. after New Years , the first thing that caught their eye when they entered was the show-case. In it sat four shiny silver cups which made them take another look. On closer observation they noted that they were the Curry and Aiken cups which were awarded to the best speakers in the Junior and Senior oratorical contest. The halls buzzed with the excitement for the next two or three weeks. The students were pounding their heads in search of a brilliant idea which would furnish enough material to give an intelligent speech. The big encyclopedia, that sat from one year to the next with- out coming in contact with any student, was all of a sudden taken down from itS perch to be one of the best used books that the school had ever owned. Before the semi-finalists could be chosen, a class come petition was held in which every pupil gave a prepared composition on any topic of his or her selection. After every student in the room had given his speech, the students chose the three or four that they would like to see represent their grade. Finally seven brave intel- lectual students out of Grade eleven and twelve were given the op- portunity to represent the seniors and about ten for the juniors. On February llth the big event took place. Mr. Cline acted as master of ceremonies and four of the teachers were judges. Each contestant drew a number to determine the order in which he would speak. After each contestant gave his prepared speech, he picked three titles from a hat and it was up to him to choose one and give an impromptu on it. Mr. Cline gave the decision of the judges in assembly the following day. Irwin Gillespie, Barry Woodyard, Bill Shannon, and Howard Simpson were chosen as the winners of the semi-finals for the seniors and Eleanor Marshall, Barry James and Ken Rowley for the juniors. All those who spoke in the semi-2-finals received a sil- ver spoon engraved with the year l955 . H ll H

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The Best Way To Do Homework by Lois Jelly IX A It was Monday evening again and I was ready to start the week off right by doing all my homework. I went up to my room, shut the door, opened the sheet of paper that had my homework assignments on it, and quickly closed it again, shuddering. I re-opened the sheet after I regained my breath and exclaimed to myself, Illl never get all of this done! I conveniently remembered I was supposed to call my girl- friend, so, I ran down the stairs and phoned her. We had a lot to talk about, and one and one half hours later I said good-bye, remembering my unfinished, or, rather unstarted homework, I was slowly mounting the stairs again but, as I reached the fourth step the doorbell rang, and I dashed back to answer it. It was the girl up the street calling on me to go skating. Apparently I had told her three days ago that I would go with her, and as it was such a lovely evening I decided I just could not stay in the house, so off I went, thinking I would be home about nine- thirty and could do my homework then. I grabbed my skates, coat, and quarter and we were off to the rink, At nine o'clock, a friend reminded me that my favorite movie actor was in the picture now playing at the Uptown Theatre, so, forgetting the homework we removed our skates and headed toward the theatre. When we arrived there I realized I had spent my quarter at the arena so my friend had to pay my way in. The movie was so exciting, and the hero so handsome that when I got home I didnlt think about my homework until I was ready to get into bed. It was so late that I couldnlt do it then, so, remembering how much fun I had had that evening, I fell asleep with the fact tucked away in my mind that this was really, The Best Way To Do Homework' providing the next day is a holiday. ll H H

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.Lg-, WEN? U, BACK ROW - MURRAY DONALDSON, RON COLQUETTE, BOB I-IOGARTI-I, BILL WHALEY, BILL CUMMING, BARRY EVERSON, TERRY HAMILTON, ROBBIE ILLINGWORTI-I IVAN GALE, BOB LEMON, JIM BROWN, MIDDLE Row - GEO BROWN, DON KITTLE, JIM KALBFLEISCI-I, JOY LIMEBEER, MARJORIE LONG, NORMA GRAHAM, JOAN MARTIN, JACQUELINE LEGGETT, JOAN PATTERSON, MORLAND FERGUSON, BILL MACEACHERN, GEO CANCILLA FRONT Row - MARIE MCCORMICK, LOIs JELLY, PATSY GARVEY, HELEN DONALDSON MARG DUNCAN, ELAINE COOK, JOAN COULTER, GRACE BRYAN, YVONNE GOODEVE, DOREEN I-IILLIS. GRADE NINE A wr- -.uf 3 ' U , , BACK ROW - DOUG MOORE, JIM MCCORMICK, JOHN MEEK, BOB WELLS, EARL DODDS, BILL WHALEY, JIM MURRAY, DON STAINTON, PHILIP BRETT, BILL DAVIDSON, BOB MCBRIDE. MIDDLE ROW - JOHN HUGHES, KEN ROWLEY, CARL ROGERS, BELL VACHERESSE, DORIS SHARP, MARG YOUNG, MURIEL CROMBIE, JOAN READ, GLORIA SMITH, DON STRUTT, MURRAY STOREY, RONALD MEYERS. FRONT ROW - JOAN ROBINSON, BETTY THOMPSON, MARSEILLINE WALSH, WANDA KIRKNESS, PEGGY NUTE, SALLYJNHERN, GAIL RANDALL, AGNES BENNETT, BEIRNICE IVIILTON, LORETTA YOUNG. GRADE NINE B.