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donned cap and gown to walk our last mile. Made in Japan. The polio ward during visiTing hours. COMMENCEM ENT VESPERS BeThlehem STeel Company. where he was working in The place oT an American who had assumed LiviTenoT's place in his posiTion in Russia Tor The same period of Time. During his sTay wiTh The l-larveys and Through his associaTions in The Lehigh Valley, he learned a num- ber OT Things which were incompaTible wiTh his own ideas - The ideas implanTed by his Russian masTers. One oT The TirsT innovaTions he learned was ThaT in The UniTed STaTes all children - noT only The brilIianT ones, as in Russia - have equal opporTuniTies Tor edu- caTion. Lacking an undersTanding oT American educa- Tion, he was cerTain ThaT universal schooling was a wasTe oT energy and money. In conversaTion wiTh The l-larveys, The American aTTiTude ThaT expense Tor uni- versal educaTion is iusTiTied was explained, and he was inviTed To visiT an American school. This he did, and he covered all deparTmenTs and subiecT areas. ATTer his conTacT wiTh The American school. he came To visiT and inTerview individuals holding posi- Tions of responsibiliTy in all lines oT endeavor - pro- Tessions. businesses. indusTry, and labor. As The pageanT unTolded Through his associaTions wiTh Americans and The gradual developmenT oT The American concepT oT educaTion - To explore and generaTe all The abiliTies oT all children so ThaT They will become well-rounded individuals capable OT Thinking Tor Themselves. WiTh The revelaTion oT The basic aims oT American educaTion and Their validiTy, The pageanT drew To a close. Then, in cap and gown, The seniors again ap- proached The sTage in solemn procession To sing Their Tinal TribuTe To Their Alma MaTer Through Their class song and To receive Their diplomas Tronn The hand oT Mr. RoberT Jones, presidenT oT The school board. Then Tor The lasT Time, The new alumni leTT The sTage - some TearTul, some smiling, buT all To play new roles in new pageanTs -- each one's pageanT oT life. Don'T Tell me you denTed The Tender again, son! page one hundred Twenfy-one
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then, with thankful hearts full of nostalgia, Graduafing class of '58: We Hail Those Quickly Passing years. COMMENCEM ENT AND The Time was 8 p.m.g The daTe, Wednesday, June 4, I958. The place. The audiTorium. The occasion was The fifTy-sevenTh annual CommencemenT Ceremony. Gafhered in The audiTorium were The families and friends of The l62 seniors for This, The climax To Their public school careers. Only Two nighfs earlier, The self-same families and friends had occupied The same seaTs in The same audi- Torium To hear The Reverend Richard Yale, Episcopa- lian MinisTer ancl a graduaTe of The Class of l94l, de- iiver The baccalaureaTe sermon aT annual Commence- menT Vespers. On The preceding nighT. all of The upperclassmen had come Togefher in The NorThampTon Memorial CommuniTy CenTer To cline and dance aT Their farewell parfy, anoTher Tradifion of The school. GraduaTion and leaving The school They had come LeT us bow our heads for a momenf of prayer, To love s+iII seemed like a faraway dream. Now, suddenly. The hour had come. The band sTruck up The overfureq The Reverend Roberf D. Lings- wiler, pasTor of Grace UniTed Church of ChrisT, of- fered The invocaTion: The curTains parTed. Before They knew iT, The seniors were enacfing Their roles in The lasT drama They would ever porTray as high- school sTudenTs. The producTion. LeT Us Show You. like iTs predecssors, was wriTTen and produced by com- miTTees of seniors under The direcfion of Miss Marion Laubach. In keeping wiTh The paTTern of TradiTion, Too. every member of The class Took parT in The pageanT. The ploT cenferecl abouT Mr. LiviTenof, a Russian exchange fellow in inclusfry in The UniTed STaTes To sur- vey American meThods. and The average American family. The l-larveys, wiTh whom he was living during his sTay of Ten monThs. I-lis exchange fellowship was aT The fir L . T' ' . lu . .5 ll u 7 X5 1: 1 r ,N 44 I 1,1 - , . , 1 4 T- ., . lv l Looking back To '58 page one hundred TwenTy
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