Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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The last feiv minutes find Seniors reminiscing over their past four years at V.H.S. The Class of 19 9 is the first class to hold baccalaure- ate exercises in the new Valparaiso University Chapel. The End of the Beginning Thursday evening, June 4, 1959, V.H.S. bid Success? The graduation exercises were adieu to 177 seniors, the largest graduating also highlighted by an address, Forever Dis- class in Viking history. Not only was it the satisfied, by Dr. R. J. Humbert, President of largest class, but no doubt one of the most DePauw University. Immediately following versatile, for besides boasting four semi-final- Dr. Humbert ' s speech, Principal King Telle ists in the National Merit Scholarship Test, presented the diplomas to the awaiting the seniors were largely responsible for one grads-to-be. of the finest years V.H.S. has witnessed in Then came the moment which signified basketball and cross-country. the passage from seniors to graduate— the The graduating seniors had chosen as their turning of the, tassels. The members of the commencement representative Bob Shank- class of 1959 were now alumnae, land, who spoke on his topic, Passport to Valedictorian and Salutatorian 9

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ACADEMIC Those hands— what do they do all day long f Xo matter whose they are. you can bet their actions accomplished many, many things throughout the school day. They could be feverishly scribbling out that last-minute as- signment. Or shuffling fiantii alls through the disordered locker as “bell lime approaches. Perhaps they are deliberately beginning that dreaded unit lest, or hurriedly finishing that “unfair, unexpected pop quiz. While these hands are doing so many things in a day at V.H.S., there other hands at work, but in a different way. How many times each day do these strong, helfring, teaching hands guide aright the younger, immature one. so that some day, they too may be strong!