GRADUATION
By Louise Heiselman
May 7, 2004
We moved back to Lincoln from Aurora, Illinois and my last three years of school were spent at Havelock High. I had enough credits to graduate midterm with ten others from Havelock. All those graduating from the different schools joined together down town at the auditorium. As our school name was called we marched across the stage. We just wore our Sunday best clothes as graduates didn’t rent caps and gowns in those days. Also, parents did not pay for fancy graduation parties like they are required to nowadays. We were all eager to get out and start our new lives. But as I look back I believe by graduating in midterm we missed out on some of the excitement of graduating with the whole class. A lot of the kids had been in school together most of their lives. In later years the classes of Havelock High 1935/1936 held several reunions together, A lot of the work for those reunions was done by Mr. & Mrs. Ted Marshall. In 1990 we held our 55th reunion and there were still a lot of us that were able to attend, some coming from distant states, some had married class mates. However, everyone I was close to is now gone.
Louise