Gone But Not Forgotten
By: Denise Liedtka
This year's senior class came to filled with exciting events for the whole school with a great sense of pride and school, especially the seniors. Teaming was well deserving of such. They had up with the freshmen as the blue team, three years experience behind them the seniors kept the race neck and and were ready to take on the roles neck through the entire competition, expected of them. They were pre- but lost in the end by two points. Still, pared to make a strong, yet positive their spirits were not dampened. impact on the school, and that is what In March the seniors took a well-dethey did. served five-day trip to Florida . AccordThe year opened with the annual ing to students this much-anticipated "Barefoot in the Park Dance", held vacation was the perfect way to rid early last September. It was a small the doldrums of winter. event, but according to those stuThe highlight of almost every senior's dents who attended, it was a great social calendar was the Senior Prom . It way to re-unite with those friends they was held at the Chateau in East Brunshad lost contact with over the sum- wick; this was the first time the prom mer. was held at such an elegant location. Graduation, the day that seniors Senior spirit began to mount as Blue and White day approached. On that looked forward to for most of their high big day in October, each senior home- school careers, was preceded by the room successfully carried out the Baccalaureate Mass. On June 5, the theme of "Seniors in Fairytale Land" . big day came, Graduation, which The first place homeroom was Mrs. Ga- brought the close of an era. This senior class excelled not only in vin's; they won the coveted paper areas of spirit, but also in academics plate and ribbon . Later in the month, the senior class and athletics. Notre Dame, known for pulled together on a much more sol- its excellence in academics, boasted emn note, the tragic death of fellow of students who were accepted to classmate _Robert Schaumloeffel. The some of the nation's finest institutions homecoming ceremony that same of learning, including Georgetown, weekend was offered in the memory Boston College, Columbia University, and Duke. of Rob. On the athletic fields, Notre Dame The next exclusive senior event was the Pancake Breakfast. "This was the was again dominant in the areas of sixth year for the Pancake Breakfast Varsity football, field hockey, and and the most successful one yet . This boys' soccer. With positive memories behind them, year's seniors brought in more customers and money for their class than any the senior class can now look forward others had done before them . "Partici- to what the future holds in store for pation in this event was excellent, but I them . Four years of learning and had no doubts about the immense growth have been completed; now it possibilities of this class,'' said senior ad- is time for the seniors to go out and visor Mrs. Burzachiello. face the world on their own . Spirit Week, held in February, was
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