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5 Special Graduation Section 0:0 THE GAZE TTE-TUME so To emiiors in Coum-iy Receive Dipl omas Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, May 22, 1969 Sec. 2 kt? i f rsv L4ir,Ki" wryfrraarg mtg svifare , '-jrcr-r3L's tm-' wjtTtvw 1 Eighty seniors in Morrow county's three high schools will graduate at commencement ceremonies in the ensuing week 46 from Heppner High school, 19 from lone High and 15 from Riverside High. Riverside's exercises will come first, to be Friday night, May 23, in the gymnasium of the new junior-senior high school, starting at 8 p.m. The class of 1969 will be the first to graduate from this modern new building. Bacca laureate services for the class were Sunday evening, May 18, in the Boardman Community church. For the first time, Heppner High school will combine its baccalaureate service and commencement with the program to be Sunday afternoon, May 25, at 2:30 p.m. in the Heppner High Gymnasium. THE DAY OF BEGINNING... Graduation is one of the most important milestones along the highway of life. It is a significant accomplishment. Yet, while it marks the achievement of a successful program of training and education, it is not an ending, but in a real sense it is a beginning. The future belongs rightfully to those who have prepared for it, who. will now move upward, striding confidantly toward a new plateau to higher education, and along the! routes designated commerce, industry, public service, and medicine; to name but a few. Graduation has opened the book of life to a fresh riew page, to the beginning of a new chapter; and each member of the Class of 1969 through individual effort shall deterniine what will be recorded thereon. Salutations and best wishes on this momentous occasion! Ione's senior class will be pre sented at baccalaureate services Sunday night, May 25, starting at 7 p.m. in the school gymnas ium and Commencement will be Tuesday night, May 27. at 8 p.m. at the same place. Number of graduates this vear is six more than in 1968 when 74 completed their high school courses. Ione's 19 seniors this year compares with 12 in their class of 1968; Heppner's 46 this year is live more than the 41 in their 1968 class: but River- side's 15 is down from the 21 of last year. At Riverside, the valedictorian is Michael Earl Fossey, who has the outstanding distinction of being a National Merit Scholar ship winner, an unusual a chievement. Salutatorian is Miss Jana Clare Everett. Bonnie Kae Akers is valedic torian of the class of 1969 at lone and Earl Pettyjohn is salutatorian. Valedictorian for Heppner High is Terry Peck and saluta torian is Sara Miller. All six of these seniors have made super ior scholastic records during their four years of high school. Rev. Neeley Speaks Rev. Geroge Neelev. pastor of the Community church at Board- man, delivered the baccalaure ate sermon to the Riverside High class Sunday night. Rev. John Kenny; pastor of the Assembly of God church, gave the invo cation and benediction. Robert Chilman, music instructor at the school, and Victor Marchek, al so a Riverside teacher, sang. Combined churches of Irrigon and Boardman presented Bibles to the 15 seniors. Mrs. Albert Part low was organist and Mrs. LaVern Partlow was pianist for the processional and recessional. Paul Herbst will be the com mencement speaker at the Riv erside commencement Friday night. Dante Daltoso, principal. will present awards to the class and Maxwell Jones, a director on the county school board, will present diplomas. Salutatory will be by Miss Everett and the valedictory by Fossey. Music will be furnished bv Miss Donna Pummel, Miss Diane Black, Grant Walter and Jody Tatone. Father Simon Coughlan, pastor of M. Patricks church. Irrigon, will deliver the invoca tion and Rev. Chandler Jackson, of St. John's Episcopal church, Hermlston, will pronounce the benediction. Processional and re cessional will be by Mrs. Al bert Partlow and Mrs. LaVern Partlow. Class motto of the Riverside seniors is "We have a dream which is not all a dream." The class flower is the iris, and col ors are navy blue and gold. Heppner Exercises Sunday The Rev. Melvin Dixon, pastor of the Heppner United Metho dist church, will present the baccalaureate address at the combined exercises at Heppner Hign faunday afternoon. .Remain der of the program will be fur nished by the class and the fac ulty at Heppner High. Richard Carpenter, principal, will present awards, and the senior class advisors, Mrs. Jane Rawlins and Elmer Weitzel, will present the class. Mrs. Beverly Gunderson, a director of the Morrow county school board, will present diplomas. The salutatory will be by Miss Miller and the valedictory by Peck. The class will sing the number, "Make America Proud of You," and the high school band will play the processional and the recessional. Rev. Dixon will deliver the Invocation and pronounce the benediction. Heppner High's class of 1969 has as its class motto, "Ameri ca's destiny is our tomorrow." Class colors are red, white and blue, and the class flower is the rose. Baccalaureate address at lone High's Sunday evening service will be given by the Rev. F. W. (Mike) Luedde, Jr., pastor of the lone United Church of Christ. Solos will be sung by Mrs. Anna Lee James, home economics and English teacher at the school, and Keith Nelson of the class will read the scripture. Pastor Rudolph Mensch of Hope and Valby Lutheran churches will give the invocation and the ben ediction. Gene Rietmann will play the processional and the recessional. Shockley to Speak At Ione's commencement, Dal las Shockley will be the prin cipal -speaker. Awards will be presented to the class by Prin cipal Harold Beggs, who will al so present the class. Don McElligott. chairman of the Morrow county school board. will present diplomas. 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