Has it really been 50 years?

By Dan Bechtold, Editor

Check those figures. This can’t be right. It does not see possible that it has been 50 years since I graduated from high school.

But it is true. This weekend I returned to Sioux Falls to celebrate the 50th reunion of the 1965 class from O’Gorman High School. This was a historic reunion because the class of 1965 was the first class to go all four years to O’Gorman High School.

O’Gorman High School opened in 1961. Our class was the trendsetter, the pioneers of what O’Gorman High has become today.

As I looked at the pictures on the wall, there was a photo of myself and my dad the late Herb Bechtold being greeted by the late Bishop Lambert Hoch. I was the first freshman boy to walk through the doors of O’Gorman High School.