Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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. . . . On many occasions. we've happily made our way +0 Hie high school library. OHen we'd wind our way +hrough 3+5 volume-Iaden shacks. Searching for a par- ficular novel or reference book. or we'd sii' quiei'ly a+ a nearby desk and labor- iously copy da+a for an es- say or a speech. Here we learned +0 regard books as our mos+ silen+ bu+ mos+ helpmtul friends and associ- a+es. . . . . ewe . . . . Anofher familiar place is our spacious audiforium. Here we gafhered every Thursday for our religious assemblies and every Friday for our communify singing programs; here we cheered and applauded a1 pep- mee+ings: here we offen sa+ affenfively Iisfening +0 Fa- +her Juvenal and our Jreach- ers a+ s+uden+ assembiies. And finally, here H is +ha+ we si+ on +he evening of +he closing exercises imbibing +he Final words of invaluable Informa'rion and priceiess counsel . . . . Page Thirteew,

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. . . . In our classrooms dur- ing Hme four years, we saf and Iisfened and recifed and someHmes ius+ +alked: each desk and chair. each nook and corner of +he room became more familiar from day +0 day. Meanwhile, graduaiion consiani'ly loom- ed ahead of us as a goal. always hazy and seemingly far 0H. yef each dismissal bell was bringing us a si'ep closer +0 1419 end of our high school days. . . . . Page Twelve . . . . How offen have we no+ walked +hrough fhe beau'l'iful. spacious. grey-marbled lobby +0 or from our classes? Fre- quenHy. we wenf +here +0 scan +he Bullei'in Board: oc- casionally, our hips +0 +he Main Lobby led us +0 +he school office +0 give excuses for Jrardiness 6+ classes or for absence from school. and someiimes for oh. well! All's well +ha+ ends well.

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$$$$$$ . . . . Roger Bacon. in Hue years +0 come. +hough we may be +housands of miles away. we will always be your s+uden+sl The memorable words from our Alma Ma'l'er Song which we so offen sang in your honor shall always occupy a foremos+ place in our minds and hearfs: You've been our pal +hrough smiles and Jrears. And sure, we're no+ misfaken, You'll prove more $ai+hful down Hue years? Our dear old Roger Bacon! . . . . And +hese s+a+ely bronze por'l'als never mean'r so much +0 us as +hey do a+ parfing-perhaps. we've never before really appreciai'ed +heir beaui'y. Bu+ now +ha+ graduaHon is. af hand, now +ha+ we realize 'l'he cor- ridors shall no longer resound wiH-I +he fread of our foo+s+eps. and +ha+ +he class bell will no longer send us scurrying +0 our desks. we look upon +heir sfurdiness as a symbol of +he s+reng+h and power of a Ca+holic educa'rion; we find. +00. in Jtheir com- plicaied designs subfle represen'l'a- fions of ihe in+ricacies of life 'l'ha1' is ahead . . . .