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

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The sermon at the seniors’ Baccalaureate Mass was presented by Father Raymond Kuper. 5 Fathers Kuper and Verkamp distribute Communion to the seventy graduating seniors.

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While assistants at St. Ferdinand Parish, Fathers Kuper and Verkamp work amid piles of paper work at the rectory. Former Teachers Receive Dedication In the first three years of our high school careers, prob- ably no one has influenced us more than have Fathers Ray- mond Kuper and Bernard Verkamp. As members of the teaching staff of St. Ferdinand High School, they have in their religion classes helped us to formulate our hopes, goals, and desires as young Christians into a unified plan. New ideas and a new youth and vigor relating to our beliefs were clearly defined in the course of three years’ study. Guidance counseling was inaugurated at FHS by these two priests. Through their efforts many of us received the advice we needed for making future plans and the encour- agement and enlightenment to live in our world today. Father Verkamp performed additional duties as superin- tendent of our high school. Certainly the way he carried out school policies has and will effect us greatly. Father Kuper also carried an extra load. A number of students have benefited from weekly YCS meetings and a larger group from an active CYO group. Therefore, having reached the goal of our high school years, we, the Class of 1969, wish to dedicate this yearbook to Fathers Kuper and Verkamp in recognition of the con- tribution they have made to our lives. Father Bernard Verkamp attends to administrative duties as superintendent of St. Ferdinand High School. A

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 Upon becoming a public school for the year ’68-’69, Ferdinand High School re- ceived a new administration. Mr. Earl Buechler, former school superintendent of Dubois County, was appointed super- intendent for the Southeast Dubois County School Corporation. A new school board was elected in January. Sister Mary Carmen, who had been prin- cipal when the school was parochial, con- tinued in that same capacity this year. Mr. Earl Buechler administers from his new office in Ferdinand. Jerome Meyer receives academic advice from Sister Mary Carmen.