Badin High School - Yearbook (Hamilton, OH)

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The Juniors said good-bye to the Seniors with a party. We say good-bye to them also and wish them God's blessing. We hope their memories of school always will be pleasant ones and may their future fulfill their every dream.

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LINDA VONHAGEN FRED VORNHEDER JEAN WAGNER MARK WAGNER BOB WEISS CHARLES WHITE MARY ALICE WILLEY BARBARA WILLIAMS MARGIE WINTER RITA WIRSCH PEGGY WOLPERT ELAINE WURZELBACHER RUTH WURZELBACHER MARY JANE ZEHLER MARY ZIEPFEL

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They seemed to be dead and their passing away was judged an affliction and their going forth from us utter destruction. But they are in peace. Some of us had known them for many years; others, only one. By God's plan, we all formed this year a new com- munity of shared experience. We do not understand why they died, nor why God wanted us to participate in the last year: of their lives. There was something He wanted us to give to them, and them to us, and when that sharing was complete, He let us share, too, in their deaths. This book is a record of part of that sharing; a better record we keep in our hearts. They were ready, we thought, for life, and so their deaths seem tragic. But we were more right than we knew; for they had reached that maturity in Christ which made them ready for the fuller life to which we all as- plre. They had reached their maturity by the ordinary paths we all travel. There were things, and people, they liked and disliked. They gave themselves wholeheartedly when they saw the need. They liked a good laugh, and knew how to enjoy themselves. They realized that the world isn't perfect, and were eager to see what they could do to improve it, though they harbored no illusions about the odds. They had learned to think their own thoughts, to Choose their own time, and they were not afraid to get involved. We might think that they never had their Chance, but we would be wrong. The world, and all of us who knew them, are better for their having lived, and died. They are not gone. We will not forget them, we know. We think of them, pray for them, love them still. They certainlydo as much for us, and more, since they are better situated now than we. Badin did not have long to wait for its first intercessors before the Lord, and for that, as well as for the grace of sharing in their lives and deaths, we thank God. 116