Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-22
BANNER CLASS
WILL RECEIVE
ALMA DIPLOMAS
REV. WILLIAM II. MASON. ID. ID.
OF SAGINAW GIVES COM
MENCEMENT ADDRESS
Baccdlduredte by
ReU. NJ. ". DufeY

The Alma High School commence
ment week program will close this
evening with the annual exercises in
the high school auditorium, at which
time Rev. William II. Mason, ID. D.,
pastor Of the Warren Avenue Pres
byterian Church of Saginaw, will
give the commencement address, fol-
lowing which the 66 members COM
prisng the largest senior class in the
entire history of the Alma schools
will receive their diplomas.
The commencement week activities
opened Sunday evening with the an
nual baccalaurate address, which was
given this year at the First Metho-
dist Episcopal Church by Rev. NJ. W.
Duffey, the subject being "The
Heavenly Vision" taken from the
text, Wherefore oh King Agrppa
| was not dsobedient unto the
heavenly vision
In opening his address to the
graduating class, Rev. Duffey drew
for them a mental picture of a group
of boys under a tree telling what
they were hoping to be in the future,
and he said, that any boy or girl who
does not have a vision is either
stupid or lazy, or perhaps both
Visions, he said, are serious things
and calling attention to Napoleon's
vision of his star of destiny, stated
that it was a serious vision, as it
drenched Europe in blood, and
changed empires. Visions of sem
iors, should be serious things to them,
he showed as they would be a bless
ing or a curse to the world.
He spoke of Pauls vision which
carried him into the wilderness for
two years during which time he pre-
pared for his life work, and which
caused him to break from his former
ideas and associations, and then
quoted Lessing's definition Of edu-
cation, "The end of education is to
make men see things large, as large,
and to see things small, as small"
He then reminded the seniors that
visions could be both large and small,
worthy and unworthy, and again
pointed to Napoleon's vision of
brutality, which in the end defeated
itself He pointed out Guy de Mau-
passant, with his vision of life of
voluptuous pleasure, and how, dying
by his own hand, he called out to his
valet, Another carcass to the dust
heap" and said that selfish visions
were good only for the dust heaps.
Paul, he said, called his vision
heavenly, and our vision, he continu-
ed becomes heavenly when we realize
the kind of man or woman God de-
sires us to be. The heavenly vision
need not exclude other worthy visions,
he pointed out, but ever should the
heavenly vision take precedent over
all others.
In the final analysis he said every
life will be measured in the light of
what Jesus said, and did, and was,
and somewhere, sometime and some
how we must face our life in the
light of the heavenly vision.
1t is a sad thing, he said, when the
dreams of our youth fail us, and
quoted Writers poem, Maud Null
Ter, in this connection, but, he said
in continuing, it is infinitely more
sad to have our heavenly vision fail.
The sixty-six members of the
senior class who will receive their
diplomas this evening, signifying
that they have satisfactorily com
pleted the work Of the Alma Public
Schools, are the following: Myrtle
Adams, Dorothy Allen, Catherine
Barry, Gladys Bentley, Naomi Black
ford, Adela Boes, Bert Boothe, Doro-
thy Bradley, Ralph Burt, Alice Col
Inns, Ruby Converse, Grant Cooper,
William Creaser, Elliott Crooks, Leo
Emmons, Ruth Cushing, Vesta Eli
colt, Margery Erwin, Grace Falor
Thelma Fuller, Everett Giles, Alberta
Gobel, Bernard Graham, Lois Grier-
son, Leo Handey, John Holmes
Fern Holmes, Thomas Hoxie, Ellary
Ingersoll, Russell Johnson, George
Kemp, Woodburn Lamb, Phil Lewis,
Bernice Lockard, Margaret Lutz
Lawrence Marzoff, Robert Naylor
Norma Taylor, Margaret Pardee
Janet Patterson, Clair Perry, Thelms
Post, Irene Pritchard, Kathryne
Proud, Elsie Rench, Ruth Richard
John Rockwell, Irene Rollin, Stanley
Ssrtor, Darwin Sholty, Frances Sill.
hsvy, Doris Slngluff, Miller Slusser
Gerald Smith, Lell Smith, Loi:
Smith, Beatrice Snider, Pauline Still.
Ter, Dare Strong, Vivian Walker
Wsylsnd West, Miriam Williams
Lucille Williams, Dee Wing, Ruth
Voller, Cecil Wallis, Alfred G.. Wo-
lansky and Robert II. Moth.
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