La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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On Monday evening, June 4, approx- imately three hundred seniors attended Baccalaureate services in the Civic Audi- torium. The Rev. Charles Ross of the La Porte Presbyterian church asked the 1973 students graduating to make a joyful noise in his sermon. Several members of the graduating class olso joined the LPHS A Cappella choir in two numbers, Almighty Father, and Exodus Song, both directed by Mr. Eddie Burke. This religious service not only gave the graduating class guidance for the future but also gave them a small toste of what else wos in store — Commencement. Commencement revealed a feeling of mixed emotions for most of the five hundred and one groduotes from the class of '73. Although on Friday, May 31, screams of joy sounded through the halls, papers billowed off the senior roil, and students realized that there were no more finals to take, most of these ecstatic students became solemn when it come time for the final tie to be broken. This in the form of Graduation. Tom Osborn, a 1945 graduate of La Porte High School, who is now circulation ad- ministration manager for the Chicago Tribune and Chicogo Today newspapers, was the commencement speaker. Throughout his speech he urged the graduates to measure their success in terms of what makes them happy and to set goals to fit their own personal standards. He stressed that individual decisions ore vital and added that even when they are unsure of their goals they should continue to work, stating, you have to find your own priorities. His only word of caution was that these graduates may not find exactly what they are looking for or might fail but he stressed that if you blow it, pick yourself up and try again. Presiding at the commencement exercises wos La Porte Schools Superintendent J. Robert Miller. The Board of School Trustees presented the diplomas as high school principal Jock Hyde and assistant principal Arlo Westphal read the graduates' names. After senior class president Reggie White read the poem. If, and led his fellow classmates in the moving of their tassels, the graduating doss of '73 came upon their first realization. Although there had been many bod or unfavorable situations such as term papers, finals, or the unchanging lunches in the school cafeteria, they then realized that they would never again hover over senior roil, attend pep sessions, or loudly yell seniors during the course of the school song. As “Pomp and Circumstance was played, former students of LPHS marched out of Kiwonis much more aware and mature thon they hod entered as sophomores.

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SERVICES BRIMS U( £D EMOTIONS Storing above, dodnrito: former groduote Thomo» Otborn tupxiMi the need for communicohon ortd the impoctonce of making their own goal». With ftoccotowreote tervtce completed, grodvaltt di»cu» plont for their opcoming graduation. Cathy Campbell, undounted by her injurie», proceed» to her teat with diploma in hood. The do»» of '73 li»tent attentively o« the Rev. Chorie» Ron urge» them to moke a joyful norie. 2«

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