Knoxville College - Focus Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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Graduates are pictured here marching to the Commencement After challenging graduates to prepare for a future in a world that is continuously scene in Gitten-Alumni Auditorium where Dr. James M. changing, Dr. Nabrit, right, talks with long-time friend Dr, James A. Colston, host president, Nabrit Jr., Howard University president, spoke on Let'Each and his sister, Mrs. Lois Nabrit Clark, Knoxville College librarian, One Step To The Music He Hearsf' Be seekers of a new world borne out of a purpose by which you are Dr. John C. Page, Jr,, pastor of Knoxville's Second Presbyterian possessed, Dr. Page urged 79 graduates. At bottom right is Dr. Ralph Martin Church, preached the baccalaureate sermon entitled The Power who inducted graduates into the National Alumni Association at Commencement of A Purpose That Holds, on May 26, in MacMillan Chapel, on May 27. 127

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The Faculty-Senior Banquet in the Dining Hall on Maiy 24 marked the retirement of honoree-speaker, Dr. Herman J. Kloepfer, Professor and Chairman of the Division of Sociology and Economics since i95O. Dr. Kloepfer taught at Knoxville College five consecutive summers prior to becoming a full-time assistant professor in 1936. His subiect was Since l929. Joseph Kendricks, Senior Class President, made farewell re- marks at the Faculty-Senior Banquet and presented the Class gift to the College at Class Night in Presnell Chapel on May 25 COMMENCEMEN At Class Night, the subiect of Mrs. Patricia Roberts of Asheville, N. C., who shared top academic honors with Gloria Burgess of Washington, Patsy Wiley of Bristol Tenn., also a cum laude graduate, talked at Pa., was, A Diploma: A Prerequisite to Success, Not A Guarantee. Class Night on What the World Expects of Us as Educators. 126

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Graduates are shown as they were inducted into the National Alumni Association by President Ralph Martin. In the foreground is Carol Howard from Huntsville, Alabama. C0 ME CEME After Commencement, the following were among several major campus events: On June 4, Union Presbytery met at First United Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Richard E. Anderson, moderator, presided. He is pastor of East Vine Avenue Presbyterian Church. Over lOO Presbyters ate dinner for the first time in the Educational Wing of the Church. On June 8, Miss Jean Alliece Colston and Leon Rayland Kelley were married in a double ring ceremony at 6:30 p.m., in MacMillan Chapel with the Rev. James Faster Reese oFficiating. She graduated from Fisk University on .lune 3, the groom, a native of Chicago, is a senior at Meharry College School of Medicine. 128