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"Graduation was 'hot' and exciting, Graduation was really fun!" "Graduation was surrealfWhat I'm
literally!" going to miss most about Clearwater
are the teachers." (To which Mr. Carv­
er replied, "I'll keep up with him.")
A Friend in Faculty.
Alisha Boley worked with Dr.
Phil Golson in many differ­
ent areas. She said, I enjoyed
wasting time in class with his
stories. Many of the graduates
could contest to having certain
faculty members who meant
a lot to them, who spent time
with them, bought them cof­
fee, took them to dinner, and
had them over to their homes.
This is something not common
in the average college student s
life in public universities.
Albert Einstein once said, "Try not to become a man of
success, but rather try to become a man of value." As the
graduating class stood before their supporters and advo­
cates at Starkey Road Baptist Church on May 9, the bright­
ness of a new beginning shone before them. For some, im­
pending marriages were at the forefront of their minds. For
others,graduate school consumed their thoughts .For still
others, military involvement awaited them. For everyone,
however, the thrill of a job completed successfully was at
their backs, prompting them on. Flowever, as Dr. Stratton
Mr. Bob Carver pre­
sented the Scrip­ mentioned at the end of the ceremony, making much of
ture reading from
the degree or of the college was insignificant in the light
Ecclesiastes, reading
about the vanities of making much of Christ—the ultimate reason for living
one encounters
life.The goal upon leaving college, according to both Dr.
when focusing upon
materialistic instead of spiritual gain. Class President Stratton and Dr. Petitt, is not to accrue wealth, children,
David Owens presented the senior class gift— weights
family, better health, or even hope, but to please Christ
for the men's weight room. The speaker, Dr. Charles
first and foremost with lives lived in testimony of a deep
Petitt, President and CEO of Piedmont Baptist Col­
lege, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, challenged the and growing faith.Though graduation is over so quickly
soon-to-be graduates to live their lives for the bigger
and the years passes unbelievably fast, may the graduates
picture, to truly "impact eternity," so that one day
they may look back and see a life not lived in vain. not forget that their goal is to boast in nothing save for the
Cross of Jesus Christ.