1911
Commencement Program of Council Bluffs High School
The following statement and Commencement Program was submitted by Steven Waterman, Salt Lake
City, UT:
" I graduated from Omaha
Westside High in 1973. On a visit to my parents in Omaha in
the 1980s, I stopped in Grand Island for some memories. I had
worked for Union Pacific during summers when I was in college (painting
every bridge on the main line of the UP from Council Bluffs to Grand
Island) and had lived in a train car in Grand Island one
summer. I visited an antique store and purchased the
dictionary, a fifth edition Webster's with a leather binding, weighing
in at about 20 pounds. I use it more for decoration on my
roll top desk than for word use. Yesterday I was looking up a
word and came across the commencement program. There is no
name in the dictionary but it appears to me that the program had been
folded and perhaps placed in the heavy dictionary in order to flatten
it out. Of note is the different "courses" of study and that
14 of the 17 with class honors were young women. I
particularly enjoyed the "Class Yell" on the back page and the
depressing "Class Motto" of "Life is Our School". "