EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, June 12,
1958 Vol. C676
LOCAL
NEWS
REGIONAL HIGH GRADUATES THE
BIGGEST CLASS EVER
East Farewell – The Regional High School held its 30th graduation
ceremony on Friday June 6th. This year’s class was the
largest to ever graduate from the school. The senior class had 204 classmates
walk across the stage to receive their diplomas and a firm, congratulatory handshake
from principle Sheers. This year had an unusual outcome in regard to the
valedictorian position in the class. This year there were three valedictorians,
James Dolan, Betsy Drinker and Mary Donahue. The “Three Ds” as they have been
known as, have all exactly the same GPA (4.2) and they each had the same number
of extra credits that is usually the tie breaker. They were all very active in
their class and much liked by the rest of the class. In an unusual wrinkle in
the graduation ceremony all three valedictorians presented a memorable speech
to the rest of the class. Memorable because it was not three speeches but one
speech delivered in three parts. One third was delivered by Mr. Dolan, then
about one third the way through he paused and introduced Miss Donahue who
delivered the second third then introduced Miss Drinker who finished the class
speech. This was not three different speeches, this was one, continuous speech
delivered in three parts by three different people, albeit smart and attractive
people, but three different people. The speech was a well-crafted reminiscence
the class’s group journey through the school years. Each person took a segment
of the school years. It should be noted that most of the class had gone through
the entire school experience together from first grade through senior year. Mr.
Dolan started with a very humorous remembrance of the elementary years
recalling most of the teachers and a surprising number of cute but embarrassing
events that occurred and naming each student involved much to the chagrin of the
participant. Miss Donahue took over and went through the junior high school
years taking a more mature or maybe more adolescent, point of view. Memories of
the school talent shows, school trips and some of the notorious art shows were
sprinkled with inside jokes and outright laughs. Finally, Miss Drinker wrapped
it all up with the senior high school years. She was able to tie all the
memories together and neatly wrap the nostalgic journey with the most recent events
like the big football games, the basketball championships, all the social
events like the prom and the Christmas dance.
After the
wonderful and unusual speech the diploma presentation began and each student
received his diploma. After the presentation the senior members of the band
took their places one last time and the band played a short selection to
conclude the program.. The band played on as the newly minted graduates stood
in their seats and all tossed their caps in the air. Then with surprising order
they filed out of the auditorium. Congratulations to all the graduates.
1958 Regional
High School Graduating Class
SPORTS
CATS SCRATCH TRAVELERS
East Farewell - The Ondita Cougars came into town on Saturday
and behind their ace, Steve “Cat” Catania, no hit the Travelers and walked away
with a big win, 3-0. This was the first time in two seasons the Travelers
suffered a no hitter. Catania was flawless, striking out 11 and not letting any
hitter reach first. The only slips were two walks in the seventh and eight but
those Traveler runners were left stranded. The Cougars took advantage of a
subpar performance by the usually reliable Joey Alfred and scored a quick two
runs in the first inning and then one later in the sixth. The Travelers were
completely stymied by Catania’s fastball and bewildered by his curve. “We
couldn’t hit anything out there today, it was embarrassing,” said Travelers
slugger Johnny Cloos, “We really let the fans down on this one. We are not
going to let that happen again. I know Cat and I know he is a great pitcher but
today he really made us look bad.”
The Travelers
will regroup and head to Bedford next week where they will face another ace
pitcher, ‘Howlin’ Frank Fowler. The Bears are going to be another challenge for
the Travelers as they are currently sitting in second place in the league
standings. The game begins at 3:00PM in the Bedford Park.
NATIONAL NEWS
DE GAULLE NEW PREMIER OF FRANCE – CUBAN ARMY
DRIVES ON CASTRO – REENTRY BIGGEST SPACE PROBLEM - RECESSION WORST SINCE WWII
General Charles de Gaulle agrees
to become Premier of France “bringing a soldier’s discipline” to the
long-paralyzed government. His first
official act was to ask the National Assembly for a free hand in running the
country for the next six months.
A
six day Cuban Army drive against rebel leader Fidel Castro’s troops gets bogged
down in mud, reports say.
Dr. Walter Dornberger, once Hitler’s
V-2 rocket head and now working in the US, tells the first national missile
industry conference that the problem of getting a space ship back to earth has
not been solved and that this is the key to space rule. “This problem of safe
return has to be solved fast and first before we start on a project involving a
manned trip to the moon or Mars.”
Several
top business executives tell a senate group that the current recession is the
worst of the post World War II economic slumps and said tax cuts should be
considered if the recession continues or worsens.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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