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

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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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Celebrate Living Living. We could get really deep on you about living, and how you have to live life to the fullest or live each day like it were the first day of the rest of your life or even go for the gusto. But we chose to highlight liv- ing because in these buildings, with this particular group of people, this particular year, is where you do more living than any other single place. Did you realize that? Top. At the Frosh-Soph Mixer, sophomores Kim Vancil and Cathy Dillier play hostesses by serv- ing drinks at the concession stand. Above. According to Lynn Foster, school books can get extremely heavy by the end of the day. 4jlntroduction 1... V K, - E i li l fl: 3 V l f 33 2. '.5 ', . , , is :li'u'l ri -, ' Q, ' I 5: M QQ as H Think about it a minute. You get up, probably at home, get dressed, maybe eat breakfast . .. but then you're gone for the rest of the day. Many nights you clon't even make it home for supper. And even if you do, how many nights do you end up sitting at home doing homework or watching TV? We figure not very often. So your average at home time, not counting sleeping, is about 25 Amidst all the noise and excitement of the school building, David Thao finds the library to be a comfort- able, quiet place to study. ra

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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