Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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Surely there is a place for everyone, now and in the future. Mr. Dean Place presented Maria Fisher and Barb Berlet with their diplomas. The Senior Ensemble sang If We Only Have Love. ' 16

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June 9, 1974 -The Last Time We Were Together The parting of the ways came for two hun- dred and forty-eight Wapakoneta Senior High School seniors on June 9, 1974. The com- mencement exercises were held on a windy afternoon at 3:00 P.M. at the high school stadium. The seniors marched in an impressive processional across the football field to the music, Pomp and Circumstance. Spirits were not dampened by the gusting winds and threatening sky, as the seniors assembled together for the last time. As the diplomas were handed out, the past twelve years of school began to fade into memory as the future began to take on the most important concern. Each student had to decide how he would use his education in the world into which he was going. Ousting winds created problems for class of 74. ; l s ' ::-:--: - ' .. We walked through the gates of high school one last time. 15

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Reverend Harvey H. McPheron delivered the invocation to the assembled parents and students . Another senior takes the traditional walk. Twelve years of frustration and work are released in the tossing of the hats.