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Show School and Home $P 7 by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty VV Executive Secretary Utah Education Association ,rf To me, a student seldom looks more appealing, or more noble, than at the moment he or she steps across some school auditorium stage to accept that long-awaited diploma. di-ploma. Maybe it's the solemnity of the occasion. Maybe it's those pompous caps and gowns. And perhaps it's those smiles that explode across the countenances counten-ances of these young people. There are a thousand math exams behind those smiles, a hundred scraped knees from playground accidents, and at least a score of classroom romances. It's over, they think. It's finally over. Ah, what an illusion! But it's a harmless illusion-one j that will be shattered too soon. I It isn't over, really, as the I speakers will say. It's the I beginning. That's what the word "commencement" I means. 1 But it's an ending, too. And I the end of anything big in a I person's life inevitably brings I regret. I Listen, and you can hear it I while the graduating seniors I sing the school fight song for I the very last time together. I You'll forgive them, won't I you, if every now and then you I hear a catch in somebody's 1; voice? ' And you'll forgive them also I if these graduates indulge themselves in a little bit of ; pride for "getting there" after twelve long years, j They've earned that right. I |