O Gorman High School - Knight Legend Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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Lead Kindlylight Amid encircling Gloomg Lead me on! The night is dark, And I am far From home Lead me on!

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A Knight s Home ls His School Step back now into a time of knights and their ladies fair A time of destructive revelry and accepted barbarlsm Times sure have chang ed haven t they? Or have they? O Gorman s homecoming destructive revelry or just plam fun? Destructive violence or just child s play? Yes It incorporates a little of both In each case Last years festival for the homeward bound had these same qualities with a bit of an added twist The festlvttles galloped off to a year the homecoming picnic ln stead of the same old routine of getting the food and standing around ln the cold the excitement limited itself to the inner sanctuary of O G What would keep approx :mately 682 restless natives penned in side these walls? For the freshmen games of skill This distracted the under under classmen long enough to keep them In school This basic tactic of distract and conquer worked with the sophomores juniors and yes even the seniors The bait In these traps took the form of parlor games Trivial Pursuit and the ever popular pitch game respective ly That same mght the students demonstrated their talent in the variety show It exhibited such greats as Jim Billion tand companyl performing their Ruth Osthus singing a down home coun try tune Also that night Tom Welsensee and Cary Ronan passed their reign as homecoming king and queen onto the younger generation of lords and ladies Last year Shawn Kunkel and Julie Ulrich 11475. became the new king and queen of the homecommg One may think that the excitement stopped there Not so true believer Our football team went up against Sioux City North ln a test of endurance determma tion true grit and the team s abllltles to basically malm and mangle In this case we emerged the malmers and North descended as the malmees Finally the last night of the homecom mg festivities came Saturday night At the dance the mlnstrels The Fact per formed for the dancers and went But home will always be In our hearts and it will always call us to seek the place of our hearts O Gorman our home TOP LEFT Jenny Luke and Joe Helberger promenade up the walk of fame as O Gorman homecommg royalty TOP RIGHT Shawn Kunkel and Julie Ulrich reign as homecommg king and queen BOTTOM LEFT A swarm of seniors settle in to enjoy some of their own homecoming festivities I , l regal start with the feast of the rendition of U2's. New Year's Day and Another time of corning home .came ,j if or ' I I

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We Don't Need Ruby Slippers to Get Home In one way or another, the phrase there's no place like home does contain some validity. But it may not have always been that way. ln our youth, we dreaded the call of our mothers, Children it's time to come home. It end- ed all the fun and began the terrible times. qAlso known as time to go to bed. J Now with our mature status intact, when the call sounds for us to come home, we answer it with fanfare and jubila- tion reminiscent of the Arthurian court festivals of old. This, we call homecoming. According to my friend and yours, Daniel Webster, one may define home as the place of origin, development. At O'Gorman, we come home to a place where we have grown up. A place that has seen our tears, our laughs, our friends, our rivalries and life's everyday oc- curences that make up home. lt has been said by many people that home is where the heart is. One must always find one's heart again. The Knight's hearts lie buried in the spirit of O'Gorman. We come home again every year to find our hearts. We don't need a house to fall on our heads to know we need to get back to a place that we really never can leave. TOP LEFT: Freshman Chris Thompson par- ticipates in the homecoming picnic festivities. TOP RIGHT: Julie Ulrich supports the crown well as homecoming queen. BOTTOM LEFT: Senior Mike Pyper receives the Eucharist at the homecoming liturgy.