Sweeny High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sweeny, TX)

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TOP: As senior band members play Evergreen for a standing-room-only crowd, board members and graduates enjoy the last proud moments of a class' 12 years of achievements. ' 5 N 1 , , X S l '23 -QQ i ABOVE: Guest ministers conducting the May 16 Baccalaureate Service are Rev. Bobby Good, pastor First Baptist Church of Old Ocean, benediction, Rev. Larry E. Jones, pastor Sweeny Assembly oft God Church, sermon, and Thomas Lemon Jr., Church Christ, invocation. ABOVE RIGHT: Valedictorian Cummings delivers the valedictory

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RIGHT: Counting down the seconds until freedom, Thomas Holiday lrightl and Peter Lavallias wait in the wings just before commencement exercises May 21. BELOW: Gwen Clements, Jim Chenault, Ricky Burge, Jan Bryson, and Ann Bryson line up outside the auditorium forthe grand processional. 131 seniors reached the climax of their K exif? new 'ffl 1 WT, SWA ,, N 1, .W +--K 'A '.,s . 'sf 25,1 jf '- ??'ff?5fj Q 3 ' gy ig,:g,,,zI5 if: ' af' 5 5121 ' 52' Y he f 13 .AH 4, V, 4 1 ' ffl mf H 1 yi +w,,,1153'f,: f , f :wt f ,Q V' Vw si 1 w RQ' sf high school years as graduation ceremonies focused on their past achievements and future hopes. BOTTOM: Remembering a time not so long ago when they lined up to go to the cafeteria in Primary School, these Sweeny seniors enjoy the mixed emotions of sadness and joy as their school life comes to a close. s 1 f ' i li 4,1 1 - xx B .T X - B . X . ' 1 u' m I lg 1 W s, E353 x fl l f H, 'J 'il , X I ' 4 ' , , '

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h Whaf 8 BY! xit in Blue Marks Baccalaureate, Commencement Exercises Law 3-ss..-. The 1982 seniors played to a packed house Friday, May 21 and the pertomiance was nothing less than memorable. Columbia blue engulfed the scene as a wave of proud graduates carefully stepped into the future. And to suit the protocol of the event, the entire board of trustees was present to congratulate each senior as diplomas were awarded. Even an audience of parents, relatives, and friends celebrated the event with little pockets of applause erupting throughout the crowd and with cameras frantically flashing to record images of the once-in-a-lifetime occasion. And between tugs of grins and tears the class presented a dignity and polish that overshadowed all those times when the fun and rowdiness of youth burst forth. As expressed in the class song, we became free birds that day. With new wings and willing hearts we tumed to look at what was once a distant horizon. 11 ,f s. ,.N..x x wh ri Directed by Mr. Bill Bender, seniors ABOVE LEFT: Jesse Knight gives the Gerald Woodard, Jeny Gerlich, Alma Davis, Hutto and Maria Barton join salutatory message. and Frank Burttschell award the for the choral rendition of God ABOVE RIGHT: Supt. Joe Lindsey and board diplomas. Board member Paul MCGrew is not With You Till We Meet Again , members Kennard Smith, Charles Stevenson, pifrlured.