Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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- SR. BANQUET Senior Class President, Max Franks, replies to the Toast to the Seniors.

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MEMBERS OF THE COURT: EIGHTH GRADE: Susan Deputy and Charles Mulford, Bobby Lee Lloyd and Don¬ ald Tingle, Billve Parks and Harold Parsons, Delores White and Charles Dixon. FRESHMEN: Patsy Bailey and Wayne Taylor, Joan Bennett and Paul Ayers, Joan Coffinberger and Francis EaUv . Jane Willey and James Kiefer. SOPHOMORES: FayelJarnett and Charles Smith, Nancy Deputy and Lee Levering, Edna Giordano and Jack Hancock, Connie Mears and Kenneth Mills. JUN¬ IORS: Carole Lee Dryden and William Wyatt, Kristin Johnson and Dayton Furniss, Shirley Twilley and Donald Horner, Jane Younger and Phillip Fields. SENIORS: Marie Dixon and Dan Wagner, Dorothy Richards and Jack Barnett. MAY M I Patsy Elliott, May Queen DAY Duchess Patty Sullivan and Don Kimbro, Escort Mary Teresa Bennett, Flower Girl; William Howard Smullen, Escort; John Stewart Berry, Crown Bearer.

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BACCALAUREATE The sermon to the graduates was given by The Reverend E. Lansing Bennett, pastor of Sal¬ isbury ' s Presbyterian Church, on Sunday even¬ ing, May 31, in the high school auditorium. His sermon, The Rules of the Game , was more like an informal chat, and his vivid illus¬ trations drove home his points better than any pounding of the pulpit. He stated the four pri¬ mary rules -- courage, tolerance, sportsman¬ ship, and perseverance -- and illustrated each with striking examples taken from different parts of the sports world. After the concluding hymn and the benedic¬ tion, the graduates marched out to the familiar strains of Pomp and Circumstance . The Reverend E. Lansing Bennett The 1953 Commencement Exer¬ cises also took place in the high school auditorium, on the evening of June 4. The Reverend Arthur M. Doepp gave the invocation and benediction, and the guest speaker was Dr. Ken¬ neth R. Walker, professor of history atGoucher College in Baltimore. His address, The Quest For Security , emphasized the insecurities of the world that today ' s graduates enter. He stated that complete security was an illusion, that any real security must be found within one ' s self. After the benediction, members of the graduating class sang their Alma Mater, and to Verdi ' s Triumphal March , they took their final steps out of Wicomico High School and into the world. Alan Taylor, Class Orator Senior Class President Max Franks receives his diploma from Mrs. B. Lee Hay- man, member of the Wicomico County Board of Education.