Leonie Humig, Graduated Senior Staff Writer
• April 21, 2020
COVID-19 is making headlines. Many countries have implemented stay-at-home orders, closed their borders and some even have implemented nationwide quarantines, such as Italy.
During the time in which...
Charlie Nicks, Senior Staff Writer
• April 21, 2020
As part of an overall push for an environmentally-conscious curriculum in the Oak Park Unified School District, students who complete three required classes will be honored at graduation with a green cord...
Collaborating with teachers and other OPHS staff, counselor Jenny Charrett released “In This Together,” a video project, via Parent Square and Student Square on April 8.
The purpose of the video...
Amidst the closure of school for the rest of the scholastic year, Dr. Victor Anderson and the rest of his unsuspecting fourth-period class entered an AP US History Google Meet to see various boys from...
In a detailed email to Oak Park families, Superintendent Tony Knight and Director of Curriculum Jay Greenlinger announced that all Oak Park schools would remain closed until May 1, since changed to May...
Not even a pandemic can stop ASB from spreading school spirit.
The week after spring break, the Oak Park High School ASB is kicking of spirit week with “Dress Like You’re Going to School Day.”...
Quiet. Intelligent. Proper. Achievers. Listeners.
Demure.
It all began with a regular, sunny afternoon. I sat at my kitchen table, learning new vocabulary words through the educational website, Membean....
Atmika Iyer, Graduated Editor-in-Chief
• April 9, 2020
Many work-places have laid-off, furloughed or fired some of their employees due to the financial impacts of COVID-19 — high-schoolers are part of that demographic, including Oak Park High School students.
Some...
Alex Goldbeck, Graduated Editor-in-Chief
• April 9, 2020
Senior Audrey Farnsworth was determined to keep Water Assassins from getting canceled this year; however, COVID-19 was an unexpected curveball. Expecting classes to be canceled for only a week, Farnsworth,...
Alex Goldbeck, Graduated Editor-in-Chief
• April 9, 2020
Following the tradition of Oak Park High School, this graduated eagle is flying high. OPHS alum and New York University student Danielle Gould set out on a mission to make sure hospitals had personal protection...
Jay Dugar, Graduated Managing Editor
• April 9, 2020
In light of the performances and events the Oak Park Choir had to cancel due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Oak Park High School Choir Director, Heidi Cissell, commissioned famous composer, Dr. Michael John...
With everything being shut down because of safety concerns due to the coronavirus, there is not much to do nowadays. Besides schoolwork, of course.
For some, this may come as a blessing in disguise:...
