Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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Alpha 1924 CADETS Our Cadets, this year, are better than they have ever been since Mr. Onyett took charge. Larger companies arc, in a great measure, responsible for this improvement. From the ragged looking groups of rookies that they were at the beginning of the school year, they have rapidly developed into a well-disciplined and highly efficient battalion. Efficiency is the objective toward which they are striving and that is what they are rapidly achieving. Most of the boys are in uniform now. and they are certainly a snappy looking bunch. Officers were chosen at the beginning of the spring term by means of examinations in which their class-work played no mean part. Immediately upon their installation the Cadets settled down to work in deadly earnest. Day after day they were to be found upon the athletic field mastering the intricacies of infantry maneuvers. Soon after the spring encampment six men. including the commandant, are to be sent to Oakland to take part in the rifle shooting contest at Leona Heights. 1 his team is to be chosen by competitive shooting, and it is certain that the school may be proud of their Cadet Rifle Team. It is important that the Cadets look their best during the last few weeks of school, for they are to be inspected by an army officer from Sacramento. He is expected at any time, and no doubt he will arrive when the boys are least prepared for him. Oroville Union High School is one of the ten California High Schools having this organization at the present time. However, interest may be aroused again throughout the state by the new State Ad jutant who is said to be taking an intense interest in High School Military training. Oroville High School Cadets having a battalion consisting of two well filled comp'nie; and a band hold a very good position among the California High School Cadets. Page 25

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Alpha IQ24 STUDENT BODY The Student Body of the Oroville Union High School is. in a way. a League of Nations. We receive students from all over the country. Wyandotte. Palerma. Thermalito, and many other places, each group with its own interests. It is the duty of the Student Body to give them interests in common. That is the most important function of such an organization and. we are proud to say. in our school it has been accomplished to a very great extent. Few cliques or bunches” are found here. Why? Because with everyone inter ested in one thing, namely. Student Body activities, little time is left for cliques.” hence our school spirit and pep. Support a team and it is sure to win. seemed to be the motto of the school this fall. So before each game a rousing good rally was held, with the result that our football boys plowed their way through to the championship of the N. C. H. S. A. L.. and that our A and C teams in boys' basketball gained high places. This is just a sample of the ways in which we aroused the spirit of the players and rooters. The night before the football game with Marysville we he’d a bonfire and rally. Coaches Land and Onyett gave stirring speeches. Then sev eral of the football boys were called on for short talks. Last, songs and veils were practiced, and everyone went home resolved to come the next day and cheer our team to victory. We also gave a football dance before which all of the football fellows were stuffed on a turkey dinner, just to show our gratitude to them. Not only has the Student Body supported athletics, but everything else that has come up this year has been met with hearty response and sturdy backing. The Fiesta of Fun given by the Parent-Teacher Association is a good example. Everyone in the school worked hard to make it a success, both dramatically and financially. This Fiesta of Fun” was for the purpose of raising money to purchase a new curtain for the stage in our assembly room. The necessary funds were realized and we are all looking forward to having the new curtain in the school before long. We have had several parties and receptions, all well attended and greatly enjoyed. In these, and in many other ways has the Student Body served its great pur- pose of holding the school together, and under the leadership of our president Glenda Carpenter, has made the school stronger and better than it has ever been before. We hope that our Student Body this year has given an inspiration to the school for all future times. May the students of the future see the work that we have done and try to make our school even more democratic. We now lv ve a school with a government of the students, by the students, and for the benefit of all. May it endure forever! Page 24

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Alpha 1Q24 Alpha Staff 1924 ALPHA Aboui twenty-five years ago there appeared in our high school an annual cailed The Nugget. The editor. Miss Grace Jones, established a precedent and so, from that time on. there has been published each year an O. U. H. S. annual. After a few years the name was changed, under the supervision of Principal Fogg, to Alpha and so has remained up to this time. The old books are all very interesting, the society pages in particular. For instance, one Alpha, dated May, 1907. tells us that Mr. and Mrs. Butler entertained the school for three successive evenings at progressive tiddle-dee-winks. The jokes in all the books arc good, but the best jokes are the pictures. Probably at that time they were quite up-to-date, but fifteen or twenty years ma .es some difference, and pictures that to them were excellnt, we would put on our joke page. With the changing of styles our book has changed. With each new editor came a desire to make the book better. Many experiments were made, most of them being successful. This year, we are producing a book that is similar to others published in the school, yet, in many ways, is quite different. We have introduced a new type of class cuts and have tried, in every respect, to make our book attractive. If it does not come up to your expectations, just remember There are troubles of prose, and the troubles of rhymes, and the troubles of copy, in the editor’s time. But the greatest of troubles is without a doubt, the kicks of the knockers when the book comes out.” Page 26