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Forty Years Ago – 1980
The Doniphan Class of
1980 had 28 seniors. Kev-
in Haussler was named
Valedictorian and Calvin
Treat was named Saluta-
torian.
The Giltner Class of
1980 had 14 seniors. Giv-
ing the valedictory address
was Doug Happold and
Greg Obermeier presented
the salutatory address.
The Trum-
bull Class
of 1980 had
15 seniors.
Amy Kreutz
p r e s e n t e d
the Valedic-
tory address
and Kelly
Rhodes, the
S a l u t a t o r y
address.
Thirty Years Ago – 1990
The Doniphan Class of
1990 had 31 seniors. Giv-
ing the valedictory address
was Krista Rainforth.
Daniella Spitz gave the
salutary address.
The Giltner Class of
1990 had 15 seniors.
Valedictorian and Saluta-
torian was Stephanie Bre-
itendfeldt and Kimberla
Kottwitz, respectively.
The Trumbull Class of
1990 had 8 seniors. Shan-
non Samuelson was the
Valedictorian and Lisa
Schultz was the Class Sa-
lutatorian.
Twenty Years Ago – 2000
The Doniphan Class
of 2000 had 32 seniors.
Shauna England was the
Valedictorian and Rachel
Deitemeyer was the Salu-
tatorian.
Linda Dill of Doniphan
received the 19th annual
Outstanding Alumnus
Award during commence-
ment activities at Central
Community College-Hast-
ings Campus.
Nebraska Public Power
District recognized two
e m p l o y e e s
for their
years of
service to
pubic pow-
er: Doran
Dusatko and
Chris Sul-
livan were
both recog-
nized for 20
years of ser-
vice.
Ten Years Ago – 2010
The Doniphan-Trum-
bull Class of 2010 had 56
seniors. Taylor Fjeldheim
was the Salutatorian and
Lauren Geiger was the
Valedictorian.
Officers for the D-T Class of 2010 were Mark
Badberg (President), Kyle
Krueger (Vice President),
Jordyn Pfeiffer and Quin
Mlinar (Officers).Officers for the Giltner
Class of 2010 were Josh
Busch (President), Nathan
Most (Vice President),
Shay Hinrichs (Secretary)
and Bryce Consbruck
(Treasurer).
Days Gone ByBy Jodi Sadd
Doniphan Herald
From the History Books
May 3, 1990
TVC Track Champs 1990
Members of both the Cardinal and Lady Cardinal
track teams pictured with their first place trophies won at the Twin Valley Conference Track Meet. This was the
first TVC championship won by the Lady Cards.
Remember, He is with you always
Rev. Scott
Evans
Life Lines
“Go therefore and make
disciples of all nations, bap-
tizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to obey everything that
I have commanded you. And
remember, I am with you al-
ways, to the end of the age.
- Matthew 28:19-20
“I am with you always,”
are the last words Jesus says
to his disciples in the last
chapter of Matthew. It is a
melancholy moment when
we say goodbye to someone
who has walked the same
path with us, day by day.
Jesus and the twelve had
been on the same path ever
since the first days of calling at Galilee.They had faced
storms at sea, sun drenched
rocks, never ending ques-
tions from the scribes and
Pharisees.
Jesus and his disciples
had faced a lot together, but
now, it was time for Jesus
to really depart from them.
With his resurrection on Eas-
ter, Jesus had completed his
teaching about eternal life.
He had shown the disciples
in person: here are my hands,
here are my feet. Jesus was
the picture that is worth a
thousand words.
As joyous as it was for the
disciples to see Jesus come
back from the dead in the
resurrection, there is a tinge
of sadness to say goodbye
at the end of Matthew. It is
not dis-similar to the feeling
that students, teachers, staff,
and parents feel at gradua-
tion time. Some good things
have happened, yet everyone
knows it is time to be mov-
ing on.
The resurrection was way
more than a graduation. It
was a revelation. It was a
revelation that even though
the world may reject God in
the worst possible way. Even
though the world nailed Je-
sus to the tree, the world
could not nail down God’s
love. God’s love walked out
of the tomb and right back
into our lives.
There are moments in
times of duress that we can
feel awfully lonely. We can
feel like we are the last Mo-
hican, the last Christian, the
last one who cares. But, let
us remember the last word of
Jesus in Matthew: I am with
you always. Jesus is still
right here. By the power of
God’s Holy Spirit the love of
God is right here.
Jesus is never apart from
us. Over and over again,
when this pastor falls into
the illusion of Lone Ranger
syndrome, it’s not because
Jesus left the pastor. It’s be-
cause the morning prayer has
worn off, the morning Bible
verse has worn off. It can be
a long wait till the evening
prayer sometimes. There is
nothing wrong with a cof-
fee break prayer. When the
world appears to be caving
in around us, there is always
time for a stop what we’re
doing prayer.
Jesus is always with us.
It’s up to us to remember to
stay with him.
***
Rev. Scott E. R. Evans is
pastor of the Doniphan and
Rosedale United Methodist
Churches.
Jesus is the good shepherd
Tyler
Hauptmeier
Pastor’s Point
In the Bible, we get a lot
of peaceful pastoral sheep
and shepherd motifs. In the
23rd Psalm we hear, “The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not want. He makes me lie
down in green pastures. He
leads me beside still wa-
ters.” In John 10, Jesus says,
“I am the good Shepherd. I
know My own and My own
know Me.” And, “I came
that they may have life and
have it abundantly.” And we
may say to ourselves, “I can
expect life as a lamb in the
Good Shepherd’s flock to be peaceful and easy. Ev-
erything should go well for
me.” But is that really what
we should be expecting as
God’s people?
You see, Jesus isn’t trying
to sweet-talk us with smooth
words, He isn’t trying to
lure us to “vote for Him”
with false promises. He tells
us that yes, He cares for us
and protects us and provides
us with all that we need, but
He, in part, is also telling us
that life in the Church is like
life in a sheepfold. So you
can bet that sometimes it
gets smelly, that sometimes
we get a little angry with the
sheep next to us, sometimes
there’s going to be some
head butting. Jesus doesn’t
promise us that life on this
earth will be “sheep para-
dise”, but He does promise
us that He will never leave
us nor forsake us.
Jesus also tells us that
there will be thieves and
robbers who try to lure us
away from the Him, the
Good Shepherd. They are
agents of the devil, and Sa-
tan is crafty, he wants to
make us disappointed with
Christ, he wants us to think
that the Christ’s Church is
not giving us everything that
we should have, or Satan
wants to lead us away from
the church by luring us away
with the bait of something
that seems better.
So, Jesus, the Good Shep-
herd speaks to us His Word.
He pronounces our sins for-
given for the sake of His suf-
fering and death, and with
sins forgiven, He promises
life everlasting with Him.
So, in this way, He leads us
through the troubles of this
life, and when we hear the
voices of the thieves and the
robbers, we don’t listen to
them. We listen to the voice
that comforts us as we con-
tinue to go through the trials
of this life, eagerly looking
forward to the life everlast-
ing when there will be no
more hurts and sufferings.
We continue walking in this
life following the voice of
the Good Shepherd who is
also the light that leads us
through the darkness of this
world. His voice, His Word,
His light is truth.
So even if we have trials
and troubles and struggles
of all kinds in our life, we
know that through Christ
and His Church, He gives
us what we need to have
abundant life. It is the life of
receiving Christ’s promises
of peace and comfort, trust-
ing and looking to the future
in the hope. The Lord cares
for you and shepherds you
through His Church, where
He provides you with the
forgiveness of sins, and with
forgiveness, there is life, a
life full of eager expectation
for life everlasting in the
coming Paradise with Him.
***
Tyler Hauptmeier is the
pastor of St. Paul’s Luther-
an Church in Doniphan. He
and his wife, Melissa, live in
Doniphan.