It's hard to believe it's been nearly 25 years since we wrapped up our time at Orem High. That seems like a milestone worth celebrating, and who better to celebrate with than the people who were there?
We're putting together a reunion for July 20 and 21, 2012. We'll post more details as it gets nearer, but the plan is to have a dinner for adults on Friday the 20th in the commons at the new high school and then a family activity at the Orem City Center Park on Saturday the 21st.
We need your help spreading the word, so please tell all your OHS '87 friends and have a look at the missing persons list here to see if you can help us contact any of those folks.
If you'd be willing to help get things ready, please let us know. You can email us at ohs1987@gmail.com.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Introducing Our New Facebook Page
We've started a Facebook page as a place to talk about and plan reunions. You can find a link to it over there in the right column.
As we start thinking about a 25 year reunion, we hope this page will help us find people and come up with a time and place that will work for as many people as possible.
Come "like" the page, let us know what you think about a 25 year reunion, tag yourself and your friends in the photos we've uploaded from past reunions, add your own photos or do whatever it is you do on Facebook.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Old and the New
A few weeks ago, on the last day of school, Orem High asked people from the community to come and help move things from the old school to the new one.
They had a great response and by the time I got there, they were nearly done. I moved some costumes over and then just wandered the two schools and took some pictures.
You can see all the pictures in this Picasa Web Album, but here are a few:
The new school meets what's left of C gym.
Looking west down D Hall
The lounge with its stylish tiger print bench covers.
The main hall in the new school. The tan of the lockers just doesn't have the same zip as the 20 coats of tiger blue on the old ones.
In fact, some folks took old locker doors as mementos.
The main entry of the new school with the cafeteria and mezzanine on the left.
The old, the new and the honey bucket.
The old school store.
Looking east down E hall.
I think I had geometry from Mrs Browning in this room.
Dan Miller's biology classroom. Dan is still there, in fact he seemed to be in charge of organizing the move volunteers.
Looking south from E hall.
The Unified Studies classroom.
A gym.
B gym looking good--as always.
How many computers where there in the high school when we were there? This is one of several computer labs in the new school.
Dance Class.
The new weight room is a bit of an improvement over the one we used.
I don't want to say they were disrespecting the past, but I did find trophies in some weird places in the new building. I expect they will find a more permanent home once the dust settles.
Even the current students seemed impressed with the new building. Actually, he's probably just trying to decide if he can get into the duct work through that hole.
Mr Downs in his new digs.
Mr Wakefield's new room.
Many of the rooms in the new building have some great views, but...
Mr Miller's corner office may win the prize. You can't tell from this picture, but he's got panoramic views of Timpanogos and Cascade.
A new home for Mr Mower's taxidermy.
A view of the main entrance from the mezzanine
New art room.
A space for the choir.
And one for the band and all their trophies...
including this one from 1987.
In the past week or so they've started to tear down the main portions of the old school in earnest. I have a few pictures of that that I'll post later.
They had a great response and by the time I got there, they were nearly done. I moved some costumes over and then just wandered the two schools and took some pictures.
You can see all the pictures in this Picasa Web Album, but here are a few:
The new school meets what's left of C gym.
Looking west down D Hall
The lounge with its stylish tiger print bench covers.
The main hall in the new school. The tan of the lockers just doesn't have the same zip as the 20 coats of tiger blue on the old ones.
In fact, some folks took old locker doors as mementos.
The main entry of the new school with the cafeteria and mezzanine on the left.
The old, the new and the honey bucket.
The old school store.
Looking east down E hall.
I think I had geometry from Mrs Browning in this room.
Dan Miller's biology classroom. Dan is still there, in fact he seemed to be in charge of organizing the move volunteers.
Looking south from E hall.
The Unified Studies classroom.
A gym.
B gym looking good--as always.
How many computers where there in the high school when we were there? This is one of several computer labs in the new school.
Dance Class.
The new weight room is a bit of an improvement over the one we used.
I don't want to say they were disrespecting the past, but I did find trophies in some weird places in the new building. I expect they will find a more permanent home once the dust settles.
Even the current students seemed impressed with the new building. Actually, he's probably just trying to decide if he can get into the duct work through that hole.
Mr Downs in his new digs.
Mr Wakefield's new room.
Many of the rooms in the new building have some great views, but...
Mr Miller's corner office may win the prize. You can't tell from this picture, but he's got panoramic views of Timpanogos and Cascade.
A new home for Mr Mower's taxidermy.
A view of the main entrance from the mezzanine
New art room.
A space for the choir.
And one for the band and all their trophies...
including this one from 1987.
In the past week or so they've started to tear down the main portions of the old school in earnest. I have a few pictures of that that I'll post later.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Oh Boy! more construction photos
I took the kids on a walk around the old school last week and took a few photos.
The kids loved playing on the tennis courts and the bleachers and riding their scooters down the ramp behind the cafeteria, but were a little timid about walking past the signs that said, "Construction Area Do Not Enter." Rather than tell them how disappointed Joe Mackay would be, we pretty much stuck to pictures from outside the fences.
You can see a slideshow of some of the pictures below or see larger images by clicking through to the album.
Maybe I'll go back later and see if I can get some close ups. Joe, if you're out there, let me know when you are available.
The kids loved playing on the tennis courts and the bleachers and riding their scooters down the ramp behind the cafeteria, but were a little timid about walking past the signs that said, "Construction Area Do Not Enter." Rather than tell them how disappointed Joe Mackay would be, we pretty much stuck to pictures from outside the fences.
You can see a slideshow of some of the pictures below or see larger images by clicking through to the album.
Maybe I'll go back later and see if I can get some close ups. Joe, if you're out there, let me know when you are available.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Plans for the New High School
Watching the growing bulk of buildings at Orem High School got me curious about just what the place is supposed to look like when it's all done, so I poked around online a little and found a few things.
This PDF on the school's website included a map of the plan that looks something like this (click the image for a larger view):
Here's a page from the website of Naylor Wentworth Lund Architects, the firm that designed the building. It includes a few renderings of what the finished product should look like on a day with dramatic clouds and semi-transparent students.
From the high school's website, a page with links to several renderings of the new building on a much less exciting day.
And finally, just for fun, from the high schools website, a now out of date picture of the construction from the air:
This PDF on the school's website included a map of the plan that looks something like this (click the image for a larger view):
Here's a page from the website of Naylor Wentworth Lund Architects, the firm that designed the building. It includes a few renderings of what the finished product should look like on a day with dramatic clouds and semi-transparent students.
From the high school's website, a page with links to several renderings of the new building on a much less exciting day.
And finally, just for fun, from the high schools website, a now out of date picture of the construction from the air:
Thursday, February 19, 2009
OHS v2 Going Up
I had plans to take and post pictures of the progress of the construction at the high school, but it hasn't happened.
This evening I had a chance to stop by briefly and take a few shots. If you click on the images you should be able to see a larger view.
Here's one looking over what used to be the parking lot at the auditorium. You can see that they've poured the floor for a building of some kind.
This shot is looking north from just south of where the shops used to be over more of that cement floor they've poured. You can see the old smoke stack from the shops and some of the roof of the B-gym (remember C-gym was completely torn down) just left of the shell of a large new building they've been working on.
This picture is just a little to the right and east of that last one. The football field is in the middle of this picture, but hidden behind the new buildings they are putting up.
With any luck, in the next little while I'll get in and poke around the construction site. If I do, I'll post some more pictures.
This evening I had a chance to stop by briefly and take a few shots. If you click on the images you should be able to see a larger view.
Here's one looking over what used to be the parking lot at the auditorium. You can see that they've poured the floor for a building of some kind.
This shot is looking north from just south of where the shops used to be over more of that cement floor they've poured. You can see the old smoke stack from the shops and some of the roof of the B-gym (remember C-gym was completely torn down) just left of the shell of a large new building they've been working on.
This picture is just a little to the right and east of that last one. The football field is in the middle of this picture, but hidden behind the new buildings they are putting up.
With any luck, in the next little while I'll get in and poke around the construction site. If I do, I'll post some more pictures.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Digitizing Orem's Past
Here's an interesting article from the Salt Lake Tribune about a project underway to digitize and preserve old photos of Orem. The article begins with a story about Germans in a World War II era prisoner of war camp near the present-day location of Canyon View Junior High and ends with information about how to submit any photos you may want to donate.
Speaking of old photos of Orem, here are a couple of great ones of the construction of Geneva Steel with Mount Timpanogos in the background from the Library of Congress' donations to Flickr.
Speaking of old photos of Orem, here are a couple of great ones of the construction of Geneva Steel with Mount Timpanogos in the background from the Library of Congress' donations to Flickr.
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