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Article: Hinsdale seniors mourn leader
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 6, 1988
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Members of the senior class of Hinsdale Central High School wore
black armbands on the left sleeves of their cardinal-red graduation
gowns Sunday.
It was their way of saying goodbye to the popular senior class
president, Jonathon A. Bryan, the outgoing 18-year-old who was killed
when his car struck a tree last Thursday in west-suburban Oak Brook.
The black bands were the one somber symbol shared by the more
than 300 graduates who gathered on the school football field to
receive their diplomas on a warm, sunny day, an otherwise
picture-perfect graduation day.
"He was a friend to many of us," William L. Martin, vice
president of the senior class, said of Bryan.
"You didn't have to be ...