Tag: Ouachita Parish High School
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Yearbooks Online at the Internet Archives
Another thing I have noticed is that several Ouachita Parish High School Yearbooks have been digitized here, mainly from the 1960’s – 1980’s. You will find Ouachita, River Oaks, Carroll,…
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Ouachita Parish High School Homecoming Parade, circa 1959
I found this photo in the 1960 Roarer yearbook. I think it was probably the homecoming parade, since the float has something about “Ski Bearkats…” Ruston perhaps? The float and…
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Area High Schools Served as Music Venues
At the end of September, I posted the below list in the Ouachita Parish History Facebook group. I decided to compile a list of ads I found in the newspapers…
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Ouachita Parish High School
This is a photograph of the original OPHS building at an angle I have never seen before! This building became the Junior High before being torn down to make way…
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The Destruction of the Original Ouachita Parish High School
This photo appeared in the News-Star in a July, 1961 edition. It shows the wrecking ball taking down the original Ouachita Parish High School. The land where it once stood…
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Ouachita Parish High School Graduating Classes
We still continue to go through and find treasures in our collection. Two Ouachita Parish High School documents from the 1920’s are of particular interest. The first is a 1921…
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1904 Ouachita Parish High School Catalogue
Here is a treasure! A new document just digitized for our collection is almost 120 years old! It is a rare Ouachita Parish high School handbook published in 1904. In…
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A List of Ouachita Parish High School Alumni Who Fell During War
Back in May, 1945 Ouachita Parish High School’s seniors had a newsletter called the Ouachita Lion. It served as a sort of yearbook since the yearbook wasn’t publishing during WWII.…
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Eddy Arnold and the Duke of Paducah Perform at OPHS
Probably the biggest names to perform on the stage at OPHS were Country Music Hall of Famers Eddy Arnold and Benjamin Francis Ford (AKA the Duke of Paducah) in 1949.…
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Walley Fowler and His Famous Oak Ridge Quartet Plays the Ouachita Parish High School Auditorium.
A while back, I told you about all the famous acts that came and performed at Neville auditorium. I decided to see who came to OPHS. I got curious when…
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