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

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Superintendent This is a happy and a sad time for me as well as for you. Because, you see, I am graduating from Oroville Union High School for the second time. I received a diploma on June 10, 1911, and including my years as a student, I have spent forty-three years in this school. So now I leave again. I graduate with you. Mv service here has been a tremendous experience for me. 1 have come in contact with thousands of students and have rejoiced in their successes and have grieved in their disappointments, for this school is the story of my life. It is hard to break the strings that have tied me here for so many years. Yet we are beginning a new epoch in the history of this school. This is the time for a change. But entwined in my heart string will always be a great consuming love for this school and the people—the board, the administrative group, teachers, and students—who have contributed so much to so many to make it the fine school that it is. I would ask just one thing of you. Make it your business to preserve the greatest institution the world has ever known, the American Public School, so that you can help do for others as you have been done by. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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Board of Trustees ABOVE—Members of the Board, from left to right, Mr. Jack Pank, Dr. Robert Bethel, Mr. Jack Andrews, and Mr. Ernest Gibson. LEFT—Mr. Raymond Leonard, Chairman. The Board of Trustees of the Oroville Union High School District is the governing board of the district and has complete control of the high school. The Board discloses the policies that shall control the school and can make any rules which in their opinion is important to the welfare, safety or moral standards of the school, so long as it does not conflict with a state law. It is interesting to note that four board members are graduates of O.U.H.S.—Dr. Robert Bethel, Mr. Raymond Leonard, Mr. Ernest Gibson, and Mr. Jack Andrews. Mr. Pank has had two children graduate and has devoted years of service to the school. Recognition is seldom given to these persons, all busy businessmen, who are willing to spend hours on end of their own time with no reward whatever, other than the satisfaction of helping young people. 5

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Principal It is always a challenge to live in trying times—during periods of stress—and when the routine is changed. Those are the times when we really “put out , show our worth, and perform at our best. Such a period of change is now in progress at Orovillc High. We are moving the regular routine, to an over-lapping program, to double-sessions, toward the opening of a new high school and, perhaps, a new routine- But, by then, another new era will arrive with new problems and new challenges. And so we will demonstrate our worth! , You. too, who are part of this change now, and have done so well in these trying times, will face new problems and new issues. And you will solve them and be better people for having done so. Your having been a “Felis Tigris Orovillus” will stand you in good stead. Our best wishes go with you! sLUjU'-hm T1. CLtt 7