Marian High School Honors Class of 1963

Members of the Marian High School class of 1963, the first class to spend all four years at Marian, were on hand to receive their golden diplomas on Friday night when the class of 2013 was graduating.

The 13 alumni from the class of '63 who attended reminisced about their time spent at Marian as they enjoyed dinner in the library prior to this year's graduation.

Some of the things remembered included the strict dress code (boys wore coats and ties, while girls wore a pleated uniform), how all the nuns back then wore habits and that tuition cost just $125 per year. Students could get $25 taken off the tuition by sweeping areas of the school as well.

The class of 1963 was the fourth class to graduate from Marian High, and the first to spend all four years of their high school careers there. One alum said there were 181 graduates in the class.

This is only part of the 50th anniversary celebration. The class of 1963 will hold a weekend-long reunion from October 18-20 that will include a pizza party, dinner dance and Sunday Mass.