The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-05-14
H SCHOOL NOTES At CLOSE l94.15 TERM
ished BY the Pupils, Calling Attention to the Big Enter
tainment at the Orpheum This Friday Evening
and Items Interesting to Scholars

NlSlllHS lIle ulllcleHl to"H VI
<county. one of the most interest
objects to Oroville high school
ents is the school-especially the
ling and equipment. In every
kol we have found some features
kh aroused admiration, but none
sh quite approached our own.
n when like Scott's traveller,
he our footsteps we have turned
. wandering on a foreign strand"
have seen once more that dear
brick building, standing pre-
hent above the town with the stars
stripes floating above the ferver
5ur hearts breaks forth in a high
Dol yell that makes the welkin
be school of which we are so just
)roud had its beginning, years ago
little brown building of one room,
eh is still standing in the old
b.
1903 the part of the old school
Be still in use by the grades, was
b, later the ninth and tenth gardes
b added and the north wing built.
b as the school grew, the eleventh
he was added, but there progress
he'd to halt. The twelfth grade
he'd unattainable. Once gradual
exercises were held for pupils fin
hg the eleventh grade. Finally the
fifth grade was added, several sub
5 added to the curriculum, the
nber of teachers increased and in
|st in athletics awakened. This is
history of the school up to the
}, the new brick building was
tied. Since moving into the new
ding a spirit OF improvement has
sessed the school, a spirit of pro-
IS, as it were and we feel that we
say, not as boast, but as merely
ing a fact, that we have the best
school in the county.
he laboratory equipment has been
Ipleted, agriculture, manual train
and domestic art put in, full
rec of laboratory and field work
lg done in agriculture. These
jects, with the required courses
English, mathematics, history, Latin
German make up the high school
riculum. The year sees the first
duating class, as we'll as the ac-
lifting of the high school, for the
)ector on his recent visit promised
the school would be accredited
the full four years. This means a
at deal to the student who intends
go to college, as it eliminates all
essity of entrance examinations to
itutions of higher learning.
S for athletics Oroville has proven
superiority in many a hot contest.
football, after a season of ups and
ms, we defeated the strongest
N in the county, Okanogan, and in
ketball we have a long and unbrok-
list of victories. Victory without
option, through some of the hot
games ever played on a gym floor,
given us the championship of two
mites, and the glory of having de-
ed the champion team of Chelan
nty. The climax was reached
IN Oroville won the cup and nearly
of the gold medals as we'll as the
lamation contest, at the recent in
scholastic field meet.
he term which is now so near its
has been the happiest, the most
ntful and prosperous of all in the
-ory of Oroville public schools. II
been the aim of the students and
faculty to make the high school
center of interest and entertain
ut for the student body and will
rary societies, class parties, and
h school receptions our efforts have
talnly succeeded. AS for the stud
$ themselves, it may truly be sale
t a jollier, happier crowd never
Sted, never gayer winners nor los
more game, nor was ever 6
uncher school spirit shown.
uch is the history, and the presen
dition of the Oroville high school
has endeared itse1r to the heart.
US all and those who graduate lool
* over the years fraught with tria
endeavor, with triumphs and de
is and realize with regrets tha
y must say farewell. And so sa.
seniors, with both a smile and ;
+, and so say we all in the word
Tiny Tim, Long live our higl
ool."