Class of 1952
61 years ago – today – we graduated from the eighth grade at German St.Vincent Orphan Home! You just have no idea how good it felt to finally get out of ‘prison’ – that’s what all the seven years while I was there, felt like to us kids.
Sometimes we would go to the perimeter edge of the property near the fence, after playing a ballgame on the back end of the ‘Home’ property, and just sit around and talk about getting out. We would sing “Over these ‘Prison’ walls – we will fly!” While we were resting after a game we would get a ‘sun tan’ and eat snacks. Probably all the things we would talk about doing when we would soon be leaving the ‘Home’ – I’ll bet half of our class never did!
It sure is a changing world – the things ‘kids’ are doing today – I just never dreamt about – it seems to me that we are in such a big hurry – but we just don’t know where we are really going.
My Aunt Irene, had all the “Nuns” praying for ‘ME’ to become a ‘Nun’ – I did not join their order – but another classmate Elma Rutherford did join the Sisters of Christian Charity, so all their prayers were not wasted! Some years later I ran into her at one of the department stores. She had changed her mind about being a ‘Nun’, but she did get her certificate to teach school, while at the convent. That was always in the back of my mind – if I enter in to the convent – it would be for life – and I was just too young and had no idea if I could make that promise?
After all these years, and as I have written – I have to get down on my knees and “Thank my Heavenly Father” for giving me the life HE has and the most ‘marvelous family’ – I am most grateful for being so well blessed!
To all my old class mates – “Cheers and the Best of Luck” God bless us all!
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