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Show ? At Friday exercises 1 Gov. Rampton addresses 249 SU Graduates I T 1 1 ; X j " mXj ft , ' ' b i J Governor Rampton issued a challenge to graduates and to the American people when he stated . that "I can think of no better bicentennial project than for each of us to reassess what our country really means and hopefully the result will be for each of us to again hold our heads high and proclaim proudly that we are Americans." Valedictorian The graduates also heard class valedictorian, Brenda Gubler Haight, emphasize the importance im-portance -of establishing goals toward a successful life. "It's an interesting human quality that when we go on a trip or vacation we make all sorts of plans down to the finest detail.. .Yet, for many of us, we have no plans at all for the biggest trip that any of us take -our life." she said. "When you draw up a plan or a road map for your life, you find svourseli willing .to iKoriiJarder, you're willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve the goal and make your plan work," she said. &TROCESS10NAL Governor Calvin L..Ramptou J ad Dr. Royden C. Braithwaite, lead processional at impressive commencement exercises., hel&JTridaji t SoutheuUJtah.,StaA College. .- , . ... graduates explore the ways, the habits, the customs of the great branches of the human family. By doing so, he said, we will be in a better position to communicate. com-municate. Quoting from Mosiah in the Book of Mormon, Durham said that "Governments may change, inflation rage, storms pound upon your soul, but the reality At the exercises honorary degrees were conferred upon Governor Rampton, Dr. Durham and former United States Congressman Walter K. Granger. Ramp ton's Concern Our attention is being drawn to continued on page 3 Two hundred and forty-nine graduation students at Southern Utah State College were told that "Our educational, political and Economic institutions are designed to provide the foun-, foun-, dations upon which we can build a better nation and world, by Governor Calvin L. Rampton. . Governor Rampton addressed the graduates at the 139th annual commencement exercises held Friday morning outdoors on the SUSC quadrangle. Quadrangle . The people of the United States must regain their self-confidence and their basic optimism before they can build a better nation and free men and women, I believe we shall prevail," he concluded. Baccalaureate Services G. Homer Durham, retiring Utah commissioner of higher education, delivered the Baccalaureate Bac-calaureate sermon Thursday evening. The educator explored the religious world of Islam, which is embraced by some 500 million Moslems as it relates to SUSC graduates. - "In your lifetime these people are going to occupy a very critical role. It seems to me that the study of comparative religions could constitute a fuller understanding of the world," he told the graduates. Durham suggested that the behind this thought will not: 'Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all'things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord, can comprehend." world, the Governor said. "Resiliency has always been a part of the American Character. I believe it still is. Americans have always bounced back. . ." he said and suggested that "it is time we commit our skills, our intelligence, our determination and our resiliency to curing the ills we have spent the past dozen years diagnosing." The Governor told the graduates that "this job is as much yours as it is mine. With confidence born and nurtured by knowledge and truth, and with the courage of continued from front piiRe Rampton addresses Graduates much about ourselves that is not pretty nor pleasing by our movies, in glaring headlines, on television and radio newscasts. We are constantly being reminded of what is wrong with America, the governor said. "I must.. .express my fear that in giving so much constant and sustained attention to our faults, we are beginning to lose pride in our nation and confidence in ourselves as a people." Rampton pointed out that"...the time has come for all of us to pause, to put an end to the recent orgy of self-recrimination, self-recrimination, to take stock of ourselves and to count our blessings. It's time, in short, to speak up not only about what needs to be changed, but to speak about what is right with America." . The governor indicated that hundreds of thousands of citizens of foreign countries each year go to United States embasssies across the world to apply for entry to this country. He also said that thousands more students seek to come to the United States to study, and that "thousands and thousands" of foreign tourists prefer to visit the United States rather than other t countries. "Apparently, these outsiders see things which we fail to see ourselves or which we now take for granted," Rampton said. He then cited sever J: -The great sense of freedom which exists in the United States of America. --Our form of government today is one of the world's most durable. --Our legal system, which provides for numerous opportunities op-portunities to appeal a conviction, con-viction, is a model for fair and just treatment of those accused of wrong doing. -There is still the opportunity to realize the American dream of amking a million dollars. -Ours is the most extensive and ambitious educational system in the world. Although our public schools are not all we diseire them to be, we educate a larger percentage of our young people to ahigher level of education than does any other nation. |