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Show Sacrifices necessary to achieve harmony SUSC graduates fold "Life is a many sided conflict," con-flict," Dr. Obert C. Tanner, professor of philosophy at the University of Utah and benefactor bene-factor of the Utah Shakespearean Shakespear-ean Festival, told 282 graduates gradu-ates and guests Friday at the 75th annual Commencement at Southern Utah State College. Col-lege. Dr. Tanner told his audience that man's search for harmony and balance leads him into a numlber of conflicting situations situa-tions in which he must weigh each factor and make a decision. decis-ion. "Every' harmony Involves some sacrifice," Dr. Tanner said. "Sometimes the sacrifices sacrific-es are small and easily bearable, bear-able, and sometimes the harmony har-mony means a sacrifice that endures for a lifetime." Dr. Tanner expressed the feeling that harmony does not always mean some sweet and evenly balanced way of life, but that some inbalance can often provide the highest peak of happiness. "Are not moments of abandonment aban-donment on ' behalf of some exalting experience the most precious experiences of a lifetime?", life-time?", Dr. Tanner asked. He told the graduates that "the search for inner harmony har-mony is a personal matter, and no one can apeak for another. an-other. Each must find his own way." Doyle Whitehead, New Harmony, Har-mony, representing his class as valedictorian, told the commencement com-mencement audience that progress pro-gress is not automatic . and that all investigations, scientific scien-tific or otherwise, are worthy of tolerance. As a mathematics mathemat-ics major, Mr. Whitehead demonstrated de-monstrated his interest in science by emphasizing the space exploration program and his affirmationi of its goals. Receiving honorary doctorates doctor-ates at the commencement exercises ex-ercises were Dr. Tanner, Mrs. Lucybeth Cardon Rampton, and the late Morgan Rollo, for many years editor and publisher pub-lisher of the Iron County Record. Re-cord. Mrs. Tanner and Governor Rampton witnessed the conference confer-ence of the doctoral awards upon their spouses. Mrs. Morgan Mor-gan Rollo accepted her husband's hus-band's posthumous degree on behalf of her family. Dr. Morris A. Shirts, retiring retir-ing dean of the SUSC School of Education, was given a special Pestalozzi Award in recognition re-cognition of his contribution as an educator, and his many years of service to the college. He will continue to teach at the college. Dean Shirts originated the Pestalozzi Award five years ago to honor outstanding education edu-cation graduates at SUSC. It is given in the name of Hein-rich Hein-rich Pestalozzi, noted Swiss educator, sometimes referred to as the "father" of education. " ill 7 it ' LEADING THE PROCESSIONAL at SUSC commencement were, left to right. Dr. Royden C Braithwaite, SUSC president; O. C Tanner, commencement com-mencement speaker, and Utah Governor Gov-ernor and Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton. |