Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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Summer activities involved Taylor students not only in summer school on campus but in off-campus experi- ences as well. Some students spent a month at Au Sable Trails in Northern Michigan studying biology and related subjects. Another activity took many able-bodied young men on one of the two Wandering Wheels bicycle trips led by Bob Davenport. Other Taylor men and women devoted the summer to Taylor ' s World Outreach program. TWO provided the opportunities of traveling to foreign countries to work with mission boards as well as staying in this country to work in camps and inner-city ghettos. While these students were participating in Taylor- sponsored programs, others were representing Taylor in their various summer employments. Whatever the activity,, students found that they could profit spiritually as well as scholastically and physically. Bob Davenport, Director of Church and Community Relations, assists his Wandering Wheelers in tuning up their bicycles. Summer activities prove profitable Diane Miller collects the Biology specimens that Dan Donigan and George Carpenter dredge from the pond at Au Sable Trails. 20

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9| U. ' ' ;. , ' -rV tM H U iM J R A M fl t. T ' — .■ j V ' ■ ' - - 0 , - o. With the change of a tassel, seniors become graduates. Lester C. Gerig, President of the Board, accepts his honorary doctorate degree. Taylor bestows an honorary doctorate degree on Rev. Donald Barnes. Taylor ' s 1969 Commencement exercises were conduct- ed on Sunday, June 1. Two honorary doctorate degrees were awarded to Rev. Donald Barnes and Lester C. Gerig respectively. The morning Baccalaureate speaker was Dr. Harold J. Ockenga and the Commencement valedictory address was given by Devee Boyd. As the recessional began and the new graduates marched out, a world of opportunities opened to them. Graduate school, elementary and secondary school teaching, mili- tary service, nursing and pre-med school, business voca- tions, seminary, and marriage await Taylor graduates. One goal is met, others lie ahead Dr. Harold J. Ockenga, President of Gordon College and Divinity School, adds eminence to the Baccalaureate service.

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Between summer school classes, Nancy Martin helps defray college expenses by summer employment in the Taylor library. TWO extends its outreach as Paula Young spends her summer in Bolivia. Wading in the lake allows a Taylor coed to relax after a muggy day of classes in summer school.