St Ferdinand High School - Crusader Yearbook (Ferdinand, IN)

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GwLmtioti Last-minute instructions are given the students as they gather into a classroom before receiving their diplomas and going out into the cruel world, as one so candidly put it. The graduates took leave of their Alma Mater for the last time as the band played the recessional, Graduation Day. 29

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Distributor of the long-desired diplomas at Commencement Exercises was Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas Clarke, Chancellor of the Evansville diocese. The guest speaker for the evening was the Rev. Urban Knapp, O.S.B. Pictured below are the graduates of the traditional breakfast given by the Daughters of Isabella im- mediately following the 8:30 Graduation Mass at the parish church. The big moment has finally come. All the long hours of work seem to be en- folded in that one diploma. Now looking back over the many hectic evenings spent battling with a typewriter or wrestling with a math problem they all seem worthwhile.

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Horseback riding, boating, and water-gun fights were only a few of the activities in which the Seniors en- gaged during their class trip to Shakamak State Park on May 14. Fortunately, everyone survived and all arrived home perhaps sunburned and limping but nevertheless happy—happy at having one more beau- tiful memory to add to their list.