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

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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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We, the students of the Oroville Union High School, in grateful appreciation for her many contributions to us, respectfully dedicate this Nugget to Mrs. Esther McBride, readier, Counselor, Friend. Mrs. McBride, a graduate of the University of California, came to the Oroville Union High School in 1946 after a rich experience in both the public and the private schools in California and Nevada. During the Second World War she served in the Office of Censorship as a translator, in French and German. The teachers and students soon realized that in Mrs. McBride they had acquired not only a teacher but a friend, cheerful, considerate and understanding. Many a new teacher went to her for counsel and found it good. Many a student discovered within himself latent talent that blossomed under her guidance. Mrs. McBride is retiring this year. Our blessings go with her. We are all better for her having passed this way. 4

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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.