Orchard View High School - Imprint Yearbook (Muskegon, MI)

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POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE — 1986 Seniors — Graduation night has finally come upon us. Tonight, we are not celebrating the end of high school, but rather, we are celebrating a new beginning in our lives. Any events that have occurred in high school are now just simply memories. It is time to move on. But I think it is only appropriate that we pay one final tribute to high school. Let ' s talk about Orchard View. Let ' s talk about the teachers. Some of our teachers have become our friends. They have readily answered most of our questions. And some of them had some very interesting habits: For example, never again will we have to hear one of Mr. Chupp ' s poems read over the intercom; never again will we have to hear another of Mr. Van Duinen ' s stimulating lectures; and, never again will we have to hear Mr. Saxe say Okay, the bell rang. All of us have participated in classroom activities at one time or another. When we did, we did it in uniform fashion. For example, whenever someone was called down to the office, all of us had to go, oooh. More importantly, because we acted in uniform fashion, O.V. accomplished many things this year. We won the Seaway Conference Championship in Wrestling, we collected the most pints of blood ever in this year ' s O.V. annual blood drive, the girl ' s basketball team had another outstanding year, and the football team did fine. All of a sudden, high school is over. There are no more shoulders to lean upon. There are no more people to grab onto in the hallway. But now, we face reality. Let me tell you the definition of reality. Reality is similar to running a maze. Each of us is a mouse placed in his own little maze. While in this maze, the mouse is constantly being timed by someone holding a stopwatch. Meanwhile, the mouse has to decide whether to go to th e left, to the right, to go straight ahead; and he has to decide as quickly as possible. He has to make his own decisions. Each mouse is responsible for finding that cheese at the end of the maze. If he does find that cheese, then the mouse has accomplished his goal. We all have our own goals, and have to do it on our own. Dave Wisniewski