Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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Good Luck, Grads ! ! ! Following the awarding of degrees. Dr. Mc¬ Clure made a few announcements. This short speech was not so much a speech as was it an in¬ formal, intimate, and intensely personal talk. As the last chords of the recessional hymn droned from the organ, the graduates of ' 48 were met by relatives and friends and in some cases, wives and children. So long. Graduates of ’48—we, classes of ' 49, ' 50, and ' 51, wish you smooth-sailing and Godspeed. 5

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The pageantry, the ceremony, the color, and beauty of the grad¬ uation processional was reflected in the triumphal rendition of “Fomp and Circumstance.” Lehr auditorium witnessed a crowd that was greater than the gathering that heard Handel’s “Messiah” at Christmas time. The stage, beau¬ tiful in its garb of fresh spring flowers, was made more colorful as the President and the Deans of the university appeared. The scene and setting was made more appropriate yet by the chorus- choir’s selection of a capella numbers. Dr. Robert O. McClure delivered the graduation address. It was timely, inspirational, and beneficial not only to the graduates of ’48 but to the lowerclassmen as well.

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Left to Right: DR. JOHN H. CLARK, Marion, O. (Pres, of Bd. Trus ); BEN R. CONNER, Ada, O.; ARMSTRONG A. STAMBAUGH, Cleveland, O ; J. V. MELICK. Toledo. O.; BISHOP H. LESTER SMITH, Columbus, O.; REV. WARREN W. WIANT. Springfield. O.; DR. ROBERT O. McCLURE, Ada. O. (Pres. IJniv). REV GEORGE W. HERD. Lancaster. O.; MRS. FRANK B. WILLIS, Delaware. O.; DR. D. FINLEY WOOD. Worthington. O.; JAY P. TAGGART, Cleveland. O.; COMMISSIONER ROBERT F. JONES. Washington. D. C.; DR. D. F. HELMS. Lima, O. (Emeritus); JAMES J. PILLIOD. New York City; J. BOYD DAVIS, Columbus, O.; DR. J. OTIS YOUNG, Cincinnati. O.; LESLIE A. PECK, Richmond, Ind.. JUDGE E. S. MATTHIAS, Columbus. O. Absent: BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS. Pittsburgh. Pa. (President of U. S. Steel); ROBERT I. INGALLS, Birmingham. Ala. BOARD OF TRUSTEES For more than seventy-five years Ohio Northern University has met the need for sound education, at comparatively low cost, in the liberal arts and certain of the pro¬ fessions. Its spirit has been one of independence, educational adventure and experiment, and high ethical and religious principle. Its Board of Trustees is committed to the spirit and tradition of its past and to steady improvement of facilities and raising of educational standards, and believes that the goals which the present administration of the university has set, and done so much to reach, can and will be attained, and that Northern will fill a permanently important place in the educational field of Ohio and the Midwest. 6