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

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Life is like a chain. Each phase is a new link. It is up to you how beautiful, strong, or delicate you choose to build your chain. We do a lot of growing up between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. Some of us may take a little more time than others, but we all mature at the right time. Before OHS, we had mainly our family and a few friends, but once in high school, we were suddenly part of a whole new world, and so began a new link. There were a lot of memories to make, adventures to take, and new things to experience in high school. All the important changes we made throughout high school built our confidence and helped us to gain independence. We saw athletes work their way up from second string to first. It was a great feeling for any student to pull his or her grades up from failing to passing. That insecure, uninvolved freshman became an active class member, participating in rallies, clubs, and extracuricular activities. We all enjoyed the feeling of anticipation and the preparation for high school events such as Homecoming, the Victory Bell game, Spirit Week, the prom, graduation, and many other productions. The sense of accomplishment and satisfaction made that late-night anxiety worth all the trouble. Usually! It is the little victories and small mistakes that prepare us for big ones in the real world . We forge our chains, not always as carefully as we should, but the chain grows longer. We become more independent, and by the end of our four years, many of us feel confident enough to make a big change. We move out, go to college, begin careers, and start our own families. There are a lot of opportunities within our reach. It is up to each of us, which ones to take advantage of. No matter where we end up, OHS is a part of us. It can be a brilliant and special transition in the chain of our lives. 8 TRANSITIONS

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mm W r ■ ' ' “Without struggle there is no progress. f1 JVjT a jskMt fr j Many of us didn't even realize what struggle was until we got to high school, and then we began to experience new feelings and ideas that forced us to strive for something greater than we had known before — adulthood. We learned that the goals we set for ourselves and the dreams we created were only as far away as we let them be. How far were we willing to push ourselves to achieve these dreams? Whether it was our school work, our performances in extracurricular ac-tivies, or just becoming the person we wanted to be, the quality of effort displayed determined our successes in each. As we matured, we stopped shying away from struggle; instead we welcomed it as a challenge to be faced head on. Lindsey Grimsby and Jennifer McMurphy OPENING 7

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Mike Owens blows his hom during the 1986 Homecoming Rally. Emily Teague expresses her true personality through her sidekick, Irma Jo. Kis Clark end Kip Clark, varsity cheerleaders, exemplify Oroville spirit during a rally.