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At the end of the procession, we took our appointed places on the stage. Right to left: Jeannie Barnes and Don Rogers, our class Vice President and President, respectively. I’m not sure who the girl is between Don and Student Body President Bill Cover; she sports the NSA gold tassel; so, I may be able to figure out her identity. Next to Bill is Jo Ann Bogh, who accompanied our beloved Killer (Mike Anderson); then Alice Hofmaister and humble self; then Kathy Wrysinsky. And I’ll have to check the lists to refresh my aging memory as to the chap who accompanied Kathy.

It was rather a big deal, socially, this pairing off for Graduation. Not at all sure I fully understand it, even now. Nor expect to. I’m not aware that any of the couples in this picture were anything like “going steady;” Alice and I surely weren’t. In those days, I wasn’t “going with” anybody. The girls I dated now and then were uniformly younger than I; less scary, that way. Truth be told, I was pretty much afraid of my contemporaries, as a group. Alice, a comrade from LOLA and a good kid, made it clear that she really wanted to be my partner here, and that was OK by me.

Note, by the way, that the motto on the wall has reverted to the secular (and rather pedestrian) text they displayed at the awards assembly
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