Gomer High School - Echo Yearbook (Gomer, OH)

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Valedictorian JOHN EVANS Classmates, teachers, parents, and friends: Tonight we have completed a most significant period of our lives. For many of us our formal education has endedg some of us are to continue our education at universities, business or technical schools. Whatever our future plans, our education has not come to an end. Education is a life-long process. It need not take place in the classroom as we shall soon find out. Our education began in our homes. Parents were our first patient teachers, and at the age of six we were entrusted to a first grade teacher who taught us to read, write, count, and to take turns at games. In the eleven years since then we have expanded our knowledge in many subjects and have become increasingly aware of the large,complicated world in which we live. This world is moving at a terrific pace. It is highly impersonal, highly competitive, and very unstable. We must have faith in ourselves and you must have faith in us, so that we can adapt ourselves to it satisfactorily. If we fall down, we must rise up and hurry on our way. If we reach high peaks, we must gaze down at others humbly. We must remember that our lives will be only as successful as our relationships and attitudes towards others are successful. In our impersonal world we must be open- minded, slow to judge harshly by our own stand- ards, and quick to realize that peoples of different races and cultures are human beings with rights equal to ours. We must actively concern ourselves with their struggle for equality and freedom of expression. ' In our competitive world we must be alert and keep our minds and bodies actively engaged for our betterment and welfare. We must be concerned with ourselves, but not to the extent that we have no concern for others. In our unstable world we can do little individually. We must work together as a nation, and nation with nation, to make a world more peaceful and more desirable for our descend- ants. But we must make clear our belief that all mankind is justly deserving of the fundamen- tal rights expressed in our country's constitution. We must never allow these ideas to be com- promised or watered-down. Tonight we embark on life's journey full of energy, full of confidence, and full of ideas. We belong to a generation which is generally stereotyped as misunderstood, dissident, speed crazy, and long haired. And we in turn stereotype our elders as being beyond comprehension, unimaginative, slower than turtles, and no haired. I'm sure that adults down through the ages have thought youth to be worse than they ever were. All we ask is that we be considered individually and judged by our own personal merit. As we end this one short period of our lives, we fully realize the challenge before us. We also realize the importance this period will have on our future. The teachings and advice of teachers, parents, and friends have molded us into what we are. Now we must place our- selves among you, aim our lives in a forward direction, and keep walking.

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Salutatorian SUZANNE LLOYD Parents, Teachers, and Friends: It is my privilege to welcome you to our Com- mencement exercises and to say thanks from the class of 1967 for making this very important night possible for us. All of you have helped in some way to provide for our education. We especially extend this thanks to our parents and teachers who have guided and inspired us in the right direction through these many happy years. Twelve years ago we entered school as eager T little first graders. At that time we thought twelve years was an eternity. Tonight that first exciting and frightening day seems as though it were only yesterday and what seemed an eternity has suddenly passed and we are now graduating. Tonight is a momentous event in our lives for it represents the completion of twelve of our greatest years--twelve years which not too long ago was an eternity, now merely a milestone--twelve years that mark an end and a beginning--twelve years as students. To- night we leave ol' Gomer High and will never enter these doors as students again. We shall have many fond memories of our school life which we shall treasure through the years as we proceed forward--into the future. Now that we are graduating we must look to the future. We will leave here tonight and begin a new and very different life. Many of us will seek further education while others will enter directly into the business world. Whatever we do we hope to make a success of our lives. Our motto The Greatest Challenge--Our Future is one we will strive to meet squarely and we will try to be successful in whatever we attempt. I humbly hope that whenever you hear our names in the future, you will be proud to say: They graduated from Gomer High School.

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Michael Ray Brenneman Donald Laverle Crites Rebecca Fay DeVe1biss John Jay Evans David Henry Hartman William Neil Jenkins Vickie Sue Johnson SENIOR CLASS ROLL Helen Renee Little Suzanne Kay Lloyd Sue Louise McClure Lynn Robert Metzger Wayne Thomas Micha Mary Elizabeth Naas Michael Joseph Peeper Benjamin Ellsworth Rager CLASS MOTTO: The Greatest Challenge - Our Future CLASS FLOWER: White Rose CLASS COLORS: Yale and Light Blue FACULTY J. E. Sandy - - - - D. L. Beougher ------------ Mary Faulkner Norma Donavan Barbara Stettler Jay Evans ---- Edward Kesler - - - Winifred Martz - - Virgilene Bucher Von E. Markley John Olds BOARD OF EDUCATION - - - President - Vice President - - - - - - Clerk Annette Marie Recker Carol Anne Reese Allan Keith Renner Leo Edward Sibert ll John Michael Vandemark Gary Steven Watkins Mary Jane Watkins - - ---- Superintendent Principal Robert Komarek Robert Mosier Forrest Williams Patricia Jones John Renner David W. Humphreys xr f f it I ' Q f ,J .J A 5 J 751, Z, ll F Q J' lffkl J M , s'n!!qN A ff