Un Tour d'Orleans

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OrleansAmericanHighSchool.com

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.

Contributors

Thank you, Mark Londner, for this great link.

Thank you, André Lemoult

Orleans Area Overview

Dotty on the Potty

as she is affectionately
known, is really

La Baigneuse, The Bathing Lady, created in 1955
by sculptor
Paul Belmondo,
father of actor
Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Joanie on the Pony

Joan of Arc on
horseback with sword is the creation of sculptor Denis Foyatier.

It was erected at
Place du Martroi in 1855.

St. Jean de Braye Housing

Ruelle Housing

Coligny Caserne

Saran Airfield

Olivet Housing

Harbord Barracks

Maison Fort. The original OHS was
located here. If you have photos, drawings,
or know the exact location, please submit.

La Chapelle Hospital

OHS

Orleans Children of Neptune Pool
at the Fort Alleaume Wharf

It's now a riverside park on the Loire.

Hover
on the
Dots

Google Maps Links

Coligny Caserne

OHS

de Braye

Ruelle

Olivet

Harbord Barracks

Maison Fort

La Chapelle Hosp

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 black and white
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.

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. Center: 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. Right: Josie Matlock '64 leads the OHS Band.

Mark Londner, OHS Class of '65.

Orleans Train Tours

Special thanks to Andre Lemoult for sharing these two videos.