St Marys High School - Lance Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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His Generosity Will Long Be Remembered

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A Double Vision I gaze into this big blue lake And the vision that I see Is not the person that I am But one not known to me. At just one glance I’m still a child Waiting to be free Then I turn and wonder What Til grow to be. Right now I’m quite confused About which way I should turn Again it seems a two-way street I’ve so much left to learn. Though part of me is way behind And part of me ahead I yearn to live life fully At the present time instead.

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Judge Henry A. Bundschu left a major portion of his estate amounting to two million dollars to St. Mary's High School upon his death on May 5, 1978. The Bundschu family had been members of St. Mary's Catholic Church since his grandfather, Karl C. Bundschu settled in Independence after the Civil War. In 1928, Mr. Bundschu tried unsuccessfully to become a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, having lost out in the primary. He was appoint- ed the bankruptcy referee for the U.S. District Court here in 1938. Judge Bundschu was the first president of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City and helped write a nonpartisan plan for selection of state judges, a model throughout the United States. An avid historian, Henry was a member of the Missouri State Historical Soci- ety . Those close to the former Judge were amazed at his recall of events, some trivial and other paramount, in the shaping of this areas history. At age 91, upon his death, Henry A. Bundschu's life spanded nearly a century, beginning in the era when Independence was the jumping off place for the wagon trains which traversed the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.