OHS MANIAC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: February 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

OHS Class of 1969 Reunion Planning Contacts

All classmates are encouraged to help out. Please let Judy Fuller know of any address or phone number updates at 208-827-1492.

1979 Lost Classmate List

If you have any information how to get the Class of 1979 Reunion Planning Group in touch with the following, please reply to: orofino79@yahoo.com

Richard Custer
Robert Flowers
Dave Hembree
Irene (Koch) Gill
Danny Larsen
Bruce May
Jefferson Oxford
Valerie (Rees) Jones
Carla (Simon) VanProoyn
Leslie Smith
Brian Summers
Terri White
Walter Pophin

OHS Class of 1979
Reunion Committee
2043 Konkolville Addn.
Orofino, Id 83544

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Please email us your name, graduation date (or years attended/relationship to OHS), current contact information and any other interesting things you may be up to!! Also, if you have any information for any upcoming class reunions or if you need to get in touch with classmates to obtain reunion information, please contact us...we're more than happy to try and help!

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Established in 1993, this scholarship was awarded to 1 graduating OHS Senior of the Classes of 1994 and 1995. Beginning with the Class of 1996, the Alumni Association was able to award two $500.00 scholarships to graduating OHS Seniors and continues to award two annual scholarships to this day.

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THE STORY OF THE MANIAC

Not actually discovered by the Orofino High School student body, our beloved Maniac Mascot continues to be a great source of pride and uniqueness sometimes causing unsolicited "controversy" by uninformed outsiders who have no real idea regarding the origins of the Maniac.

The 1927 OHS basketball team is credited with being dubbed the "Maniacs" while on an away game. Orofino, not having the resources to provide the players with basketball uniforms at the time, was the subject of the opposition's teasing. Despite the ridicule, our players got out on the court and played a hard game--so much that the other team decided the Orofino players played and looked like "a bunch of maniacs".

The name stuck with the Orofino boys calling each other "Maniacs" from then on.

Our present-day mascot "logo" came along in 1972, with great credit and thanks to the late Jim Johnston (1941-2001, Former OHS Teacher, Football Coach & Athletic Director). Mr. Johnston contacted the art teacher who drew the original Maniac, who had moved on to work as an artist for the F.B.I. in Washington D.C. From Jim Johnston's efforts, the most well known Maniac logo was commissioned.

From humble beginnings as a pre-Depression era joke, our Maniac continues to be recognized as one of the most unique High School mascots not only in Idaho, but throughout the country.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

OHS Class of 1969 Reunion Planning Contacts

1979 Lost Classmate List

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