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Class of 1971 Valedictorian
A note on Edmund Eickenroht (class valedictorian):
My earliest memory of Edmund was in first grade at Cambridge (1959-1960). We were not in the same class, but I remember seeing his mother standing in the hallway every day a few minutes before school was over. She came to his classroom because Edmund wore leg braces (as I recall, he had some form of bone disease). We did not know each other very well until 6th grade (Mrs. Myers' class) where Edmund always seemed to get an A+ on assignments and tests (that was a fairly "smart" class - I remember taking on other classes in arithmetic "races" and I don't think we ever lost). We remained friends through high school and had some contact through the college years, but we had basically lost contact when I received a phone call from Larry Williams in Sept, 1980. He told me Edmund had been killed (hit by a vehicle while crossing a street, if my memory is accurate). My parents sent me his obituary from the North San Antonio Times which listed some of his academic achievements including being a "graduating senior" from medical school. I filed it away, but retrieved it recently now over 20 years since his untimely passing. And I'm left with the same questions today that I had in 1980:
What could he have accomplished?
What could he have contributed? ~ Andrew Wetz 7/2001
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