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"Graduation was 'hot' and exciting, C Graduation was really fun!" "Graduation was surreaKWhat 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 theirthoughts .For still

others, military involvement awaited them. For everyone,

however, the thrill of a job completed successfully was at

their backs, prompting them on. However, 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

Petitt, President and CEO of Piedmont Baptist Col­ first and foremost with lives lived in testimony of a deep

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.