Bethany High School - Reverie Yearbook (Bethany, IL)

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So when you flip through these yearbook pages in 1986, or 1997, or 2009, or 2055, whatever the year, take a moment and reflect back to your school days. Let’s keep in touch. Don't ever forget the memories. We are the Class of '85 and even though we must now part, in our hearts, we are inseparable. Seniors 27

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It's only a matter of time before the years will leap away and we will find ourselves reunited, twenty, maybe thirty years from now. One of us will win a prize for travelling the farthest, one of us for the most gray hairs, one of us for the most grandchil- dren. We’ll talk of our jobs and our families, and our health. Then it will grow quiet as someone shouts. “Remember when and we will remember, with a little laugh, or a distant look in our eyes. Maybe seventy-five years from now. one of us will be the lucky one to be recognized at an alumni banquet for being the oldest graduate of Bethany High School. Maybe one of us will be a president. Maybe one of us will be a criminal. Maybe one of us will be a movie star. Or maybe one of us will be a scientist with a revolutionary breakthrough. Or maybe someone not famous or bad. just a quiet person, happy with his family life in a small rural town . . . THEN NOW 26 Seniors

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GRADUATION GOODBYE As I (ry, I wonder if I’m happy or sad. “his? is the place, the people and the good times ve l ad. nSe are the best years of your life, “elders would say. and I find it’s true as I end them all today. Tears glisten in your eyes, though you smile. You Know we may not be together again for a while. And itVhard for me to say it. but I'll always treasure you as a friend That’S why it hurts a bitjo know that this is the end. | We were young, and we've grown aid together, and we've shared the many secrets that we treasure. But now it’s time for us to say goodbye. To the friends, the friends we’ve had throughout our lives. Well we ■. . oung And v.e are like a family saying goodbye. We remember doing many things. perhaps it was just you and I. And you’re special to me. I’ll miss you. The; thought brings a tear to my eye. Does it seem like we’ve been togefeer so long? How can we say goodbye? I don’t want it to end; I want to see you again. So long, we love you. goodbye. As I stand and look into the graduates’ faces, which way will we go9 Different directions and places. I don’t think we’ll all ever bd together again. A We’ve grown into adults, women and men. As I stand and give a kiss on the cheek. and say goodbye in a voice that’s quivering and weak. i I’ll never forget a one of you. I I say. not ever. a You'll all be in my memories forever. Poem by Marsha Clark with additional words by Todd Atkinson and Judi Davis