'New' Orleans High School

A Tribute to Excellence...

...and maybe a bit of mischief



Tidbits
Do You Remember?
  • The bandstand partway down the hill toward the center of town?
  • When the Sea Scouts were building their 42' Ketch, and while it was upside down, kids crawled under it to smoke?
  • Who the "Wednesday Night Beavers" were?...
  • ...and what they did?
  • School bus drivers Robley Fulcher, Clarence Fulcher, Leo Cummings, and Bill Blaisdell?
  • The "Lunch Ladies", including "Bert" and Beth Richardson?

    (Phil's & Don's Moms)
  • When the town baseball team actually had kids from town on it?
  • When the Snow Library burned down in 1952?
  • The "Safe Teens" car club...and OPD officer Charlie Jones...
  • ...and those rallies at Nauset Beach Parking Lot?
  • The deck collapse in 1998 during a "mixer" prior to the 40th Class reunion of the Class of 1958?
  • One Halloween, how Dr. Burke's wooden wheeled wagon on Defiance Lane got into the lobby at the Orleans Theater?
  • One Halloween, the church bell system audio at the Federated Church in East Orleans was playing "Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock"?
  • When the men who worked for New England Tel & Tel volunteered their time on Saturdays to coach young basketball players?
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Did You Know?
  • Janitor Carleton Knowles used to let the boys into the gym before school and on weekends to play basketball?
  • Orleans Higway Surveyor Fred Mayo got permission from the school to let the seniors out to shovel sidewalks?
  • Coach Biggers kept his handkerchief in his jockstrap?
  • How the skunk got into the school heating system ducting?
  • If you were into running, and left school at the same time as your bus, you could usually get home first?
  • The Orleans Fire Chief, George Knowles, died as a result of the Snow Library fire?
  • Ten (10) fire departments responded with 12 ambulances to the deck collapse at Susan and Otis Thompson's home during the 40th reunion "mixer"? Several classmates were seriously injured...
  • ...Despite all the injuries, nearly everyone attended the actual reunion the next evening at 400 East in East Harwich.
  • In the 1950’s population of the three towns was miniscule. Look at the growth:
    Town 1950s 2018
    Eastham 860 4,871
    Brewster 987 9,806
    Orleans 1,759 5,798
  • The number "27" emblazoned on Dr. Brooks' suit jacket was the year he graduated from Princeton?
  • When Dr. Brooks mentioned "Old 27" he was referring to his bicycle?
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