Gomer High School - Echo Yearbook (Gomer, OH)

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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

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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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Baccalaureate Servzce Sunday May 28 1967 8 15 P M Processlonal Mlxed Chorus AGIOYIH Patrl Congregatron and Chorus 'klnvocatron Rev Frank Isaacs The Imposs1ble Dream Mlxed Chorus Class Sermon Molded or Remolded Romans 12 1 2 9 21 Rev Frank Isaacs You ll Never Walk Alone Mlxed Chorus ' ma Mater Song M1xed Chorus Bened1ct1on Rev Frank Isaacs The Lord Bless You and Keep You M1xed Chorus Accompanlst Joyce Dlller CUITIJTIJGTLCBITIJQVLK EXGTCLSBS Thursday June 1 1967 8 15 P M Processronal Cheryl Brenneman Sue Rupel ong Amerrca 'Invocauon The Lord IS My L1ghr Valed1ctory Address Presentatlon of Drplomas Graduatron Day 'Bened1ct1on Aud1ence Rev Frank Isaacs Iohn Evans John Evans Dr Samuel Meyer J M Evans I E sardy Senlor Class ev Frank Isaacs 'Aud1ence Please Stand 'Aud1ence Please Stand . . ------- . ,S : ,, . ,, ------------ . This is my Country -------- Mixed Chorus Salutatory ------------- Suzanne Lloyd Al ---------- ' . . 1 ,, ,, - . - - ----------- R i