Washington High School - Memory Lane Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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KERMIT THOMPSON THE CYCLE ENDS... E school cycle for this class of 1968 will come to a grinding hal longer will you be a student at Washington High School, but member of that vast group in our community who identify them as the Alumni. Yes . . . the long awaited day is about to arrive now you probably have some regrets that the end is near. In just a few days the switches will be pulled and the four year I a s As you make your last exit from this school, you will be taking. of the basic lessons of Ile which will enable you to pursue adva opportunities in higher education or the pursuit ofgainful employr Over and above these accomplishments you will depart with memories ofthe unusual moments in the four years, and this Mei Lane serves to perpetuate those experiences so that you will 1 forget them. Time has a way of helping us forget the unpleasant e we endured, and the enjoyable moments seem to become more nounced each passing year. By the time your jirst grandchild art some of your high school experiences will have already become 1 gerated beyond the point of all reasonableness. The ending of this cycle means that the wheels ofa new one will rotating. The big question facing each graduate will be, What I have accomplished at the end of the next cycle? The faculty and I will be on the side lines watching your performance. Prove to us EDWARD HLARSK1 what your generation can do to ensure a better world in which to live. I2