Un Tour d'Orleans

Un Tour
d'Orléans

Welcome to Un Tour d’Orleans, a companion
website to Dave Thatcher’s alumni website for
Orleans American High School. Here you’ll see images and stories about the way Orleans was
back in the day, and how it is now.

This page also complements Gregg Steinwand’s Facebook page, Orleans American School
Former Students. In fact, it was this Facebook page that served as the inspiration for this webpage. Old photos of Orleans, OHS and comments about life there in the 50s and 60s always generate a lot of interest and enthusiastic participation on FB. One comment or photo usually jogs people’s memory, inspiring tons of new comments. But on Facebook, comments from several weeks or months ago can be hard to locate. Those priceless memories will be more easily maintained and accessed on a web page.

Content for this webpage will be crowd sourced.
We’ll harvest content from the OHS Facebook page,
and also create and encourage new original content.

Your photos and comments about your experiences
in Orleans are interesting to all OHS alums, and
this page is a great place to share them.

Hit the “OrleansAmericanHighSchool.com” button
in the upper right for more comprehensive information about the OHS experience, including Class Directories, Reunion Information, Faculty, Yearbooks, Newspapers, Photos, Class News, and much more.

Google Maps Links

Coligny Caserne

OHS

de Braye

Ruelle

Olivet

Harbord Barracks

Maison Fort

La Chapelle Hosp

Orleans in the 60s.
Thank you, André Lemoult

Les Fêtes de Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans

Since 1430 the Orléanais have celebrated the
Fêtes de Jeanne d’Arc in late April and early May,
commemorating the liberation of Orléans from the English. A week of street parties, enormous medieval
costume parades and concerts ends with a procession and morning Mass at the cathedral on 8 May.

These photos appeared in the Orléans newspaper, and were printed for me by Paul Chevalier, a Senior
on the 62-63 Yearbook staff.

Don Ballard, OHS Class of '63.

Top Left: "The OHS Marching Band during the '61 Jean d' Arc parade, from the cover of the local Orleans paper. That's me Dad's arrow is pointing to; Jan Markle along side to my right, and I think that's Bobby Pugh to my left". Top Right: "1962 parade photo from Stars and Stripes. Notice we'd gotten uniforms. Mike Katz on my right, and Jean-Pierre Maxwell playing the baritone behind me". Bottom: "Josie Matlock '64 leads the OHS Band".

Mark Londner, OHS Class of '65.

Orleans Train Tours

Thanks to Andre Lemoult for sharing these two videos.