aefenglommung (aefenglommung) wrote,
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Gaudeamus igitur juvenes dum sumus

There's a thing going 'round on social media in which people salute the graduating class of 2020 -- whose school days have been cut short and whose ceremonies deep-sixed by the current pandemic -- by posting their own senior pictures.

Well, I don't have the means readily to hand to scan my senior portrait -- in which I am actually smiling, believe it or not -- but I did find this very solemn fellow, trying on his cap and gown at home on Hillside Dr., Spencer, Indiana.

The Graduate 1971 (2)

The Graduate 1971
Owen Valley High School
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