Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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Celebrate Performance Performance. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language defines performance as functional effectiveness. We looked up functional in the same dictionary and found it to mean performing a function which put us back to where we started. So then we checked out effective- ness and found it meant, among other things, impressive So we put them all together and came up with: Performance: per- forming an impressive function. We looked at everything you did this year and came up with our very selective, unauthorized listing of what we considered performances. Here they are, in no particular or- der, for your perusal: Sophomore cheerleader Joy Wallens gives a smile of satisfaction after a successful practice. Dressed in formal band uniform Tracy Olson per- forms on King Field during a half-time show dur- ing football season. The band presents a different half-time show for each home football game. Sjlntroduction 1. 4' f - -. . ' 5 - , , Q M .,...,. N Maribeth Hill, tennis captain, shows intense con- centration during a home tennis meet. X 'Wm W wi i X s 53 2 s

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hours - at tops - during the five day week. But school? We figure you put in 37.5 hours tcounting sleeping timei each week. And that's if you aren't involved in an outside activity. Let's celebrate living because we're all here, at this particular time in history, living together. And that will never happen again. .43 X -44 Parade Marshalls Merle Burke and Stan White anx iously await the start of the Homecoming Parade Both men are former OHS social science teachers. ,, ,J ,F The crowd keeps growing as Pirate fans gather to support the football teams at the Homecoming bon- fire. lt's not exactly nourishing, but senior Karen Budias will buy anything if it will keep her going for the rest of the day. .JN .A-. X ,l ' lntroductionf 5

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i,,.m.- FFA Awardsg Pirate's Cove don- utsg Alice in Wonderland g Basket- ball teamg Pomerette's Homecom- ing half-timeg Band, at any half- timeg Cheerleader's Homecoming skit. Student Council sweetheart dayg The Sea Wallg The Yearbook Staff fwe had tojg and the girls tennis team. Naturally, we left someone or something out that you would con- sider a performance. lt was bound to happen. Maybe we forgot - or maybe we don't agree. Whatever, the greatest perfor- mance of all was the job you did getting through this year. Celebrate! Top. The cheerleaders look on as selected members of the student body take part in the cheerleaders' Homecoming skit, The Saga of Super Pirate, Above. Bryan Leonard makes his decision as fresh- men Joe Yednock and Julie Taylor look on during class elections. gm E H' Q' . 3 Wx. Top. During a sophomore football game defensive end Steve Rogers watches the offensive line during a scoring drive. Above. As junior drum majorette, it is Sue Gullak- son's job to lead the band during their pre-game and half-time performances on King Field. lntroductionf7