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There ome

s the last strains of the who graduated from

alma mater fade away, college long ago.

we march into a world They have invested

what they learned

challenging us to make plus what life has

an important mark in it. taught them into the

Graduation Day marks the highly improbable, because lives of others. They

end of years of books, whatever field they enter, are deserving of

papers, and tests. But is it there's always more to learn.

truly the end? Not really. Yes — Graduation Day is another degree that

Although graduation only the beginning.

concludes one phase of our Not that there shouldn't be is not earned from

lives, it also begins the a sense of accomplishment, attending college

largest and most important and perhaps pride, as the

part of the time God gives us seniors march across the classes: it’s called

on earth. platform to receive diplomas honoris causa.

There is another word and be hooded. According to

used synonymously with the their professors, they have Our beloved Dr.

term graduation — it is mastered enough "to

commencement. It means "to commence." They are ready Norman P. Spotts,

begin" or "to start." What to learn the lessons that only

we've been doing ever since experience and work will in ’90, and Mr. John

kindergarten up until now teach them. Kruhmin, former vice

has been in preparation "to Graduation Day — a

begin." Begin what? special time for moms and president of financial

Whatever God has called us dads, aunts and uncles,

to do with our lives. We are grandparents, and graduates! affairs in ’91, have

now ready to start fulfilling But we must follow the been s

that calling. Apostle Paul's admonition:

Have you noticed how ". . . forgetting those things rece

seniors talk about how glad which are behind, and

they are that they're almost reaching forth unto those

done? They're never going to things which are before, I

"crack another book." (This press toward the mark for

statement is highly the prize of the high calling

impropable.) They're never of God in Christ Jesus"

going to study again. Also (Philippians 3:13,14).

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