Munster High School - Paragon Yearbook (Munster, IN)

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Exercises Launch Class of 1967 “One More Time!” This was Mr. Holmberg’s comment as the Senior Choir sang together for the final time. Mr. Martin Kraegel and Dr. Berard Masse present diploma to Cindy Stone. 27 Superintendant of Munster Schools, Mr. Frank Hammond, spoke at Commencement Exercises. Senior girls had to be sure they looked their best for graduation ceremony. Individual members of graduating class observe fellow students receiving diplomas.

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Munster High’s First Commencement Indiana Senator Birch Bayh addressed the Class of 67, reminding them of a challenge waiting to be met . Long march to seat is near end for Diane VanStright. June 8, 1967 was truly a night to remember for 184 seniors of Munster High School. Seniors assembled in the fieldhouse to don caps and gowns in anticipation of the last hour of their high school years. Commencement began with the proud processional of the soon-to-be graduates. The senior concert choir, directed by Richard Holmberg, gave their last per- formance singing two selections, one of which posed a challenge to the seniors with “The Impossible Dream”. Mr. Frank Hammond, Superintendant, ad- dressed the audience and extended special congratulations to the first grad- uates of Munster High School, as the “vanguards of ambition and tradition”. Following an introduction by Dr. Masse, the Commencement Address was given by Senator Birch Bayh. As Mr. Speel- man, senior class sponsor, presented the class of 67, and Mr. Martin Kraegel, school board president, bestowed dip- lomas, the meaning and purpose of the diploma was deeply felt throughout the auditorium. 184 seniors of Munster High School, its first graduating class, walked out of the high school audi- torium on the night of June 8 to look back and look ahead simultaneously. For all it was an end; for all it was a beginning. From the past — memories; for the future — challenges. Whoever they are, whatever they do, the first graduates of Munster High will never be forgotten. All in place for the processional, soon-to-be grads wait for start of “Pomp and Circumstance”. The Class of 67 taking part in Baccalaureate, Sunday, June 4.

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. . . the birth of true knowledge September ’66, through June ’67, Munster High students went to school. This does not only mean attending dances and football games, but most important, it means they gave forty hours a week to learning. To learn about people and places of the world, about the many laws of nature, and about how to later make a living, Munster teens took varied courses for an all-around education academics