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Show Hail, Alma Mater One of the greatest changes in a person's life will be experienced by seniors who graduate grad-uate tonight. That period of one's life when childish and adolescent dreams are forgotten or rebuilt with a super structure; when students stu-dents become citizens of this united nation; when the pattern of life changes completely graduation brings these evolutionary changes in a person's life. Graduating seniors leave high school sometimes some-times never to attend another school day in the course of their lives. Some marry immediately. im-mediately. Many continue their schooling in . high education. Many are absorbed in industry indus-try and immediately pursue professions. There are many patterns of life after high school. Regardless of the path one chooses, those things which have been acquired through the years of obtaining an education will remain re-main as stepping stones and guiding lights Uong the path of life. To tnose who are graduating this year many complex problems will arise. The world is in a labyrinth of situations. Those who are going out into the world will need all the preparation "which high school and college provide. Even this is not sufficient. They must must have faith in themselves and in the concept that it is human nature to love peace and individual freedom. They must believe be-lieve that God created all men equal and endowed en-dowed them with certain inalienable rights. God bless those 900 students who will raise their voices tonight in the final tribute to their school in the Alma Mater Hymn. We offer this prayer in answer, "Lead them on to conquests loyal, great shall be their glory, Hail, Alma Mater." s |