Article: Hinsdale seniors mourn leader

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 ...

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