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COSiw@raT© 2i S®ral@rsTwenty-eight seniors received their high school diplomas Thursday night at Randolph High School graduation ceremonies held in the school gymtorium in Pass Christian.Featured speakers were the valedictorian, Miss Jean Remain, daughter of Mrs. Rho-denia Romain and the late Walter Romain, and the salutatorian, Miss Linda Martin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sancil Martin.Title of the valedictory address was Striking A Match, and Miss Romain noted it was James Russell Lowell who once wrote “The universe is fireproof and it is perfectly safe to strike a match anywhere.” Miss Romain told her fellow seniors “the point for us to consider most carefully...is what will happen under different conditions to the person who strikes the match? Quoting a recent public address of a noted educator, Miss Romain pointed to his assertion that Brutus, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette and others in history “struck a match.”“It is very fashionable now,” she said, “to try to change the names of those to whom the deed may be attributed, but surely a match was struck, and your generation ought not to pass without deciding that the striking of that match was not safe for anybody or anything except the universe.’Miss Martin, in her salutatory address, expressed sentiment over t he occasion and said the class was “rich to have so goodly a number of you who have watched our progress, regretted, our failures, kept on having faith in us when we struggled to our feet again, and who are heje tonight to rejoice, that we have finally made the grade,”“We know full well,” she said, “that we are young and inexperienced and immature. We * cannot help that. Time alone will remedy all of thisand we ere not wishing the precious golden days away, for We love our youth and its privileges and opportunities and dreams even as you did in the days of long ago,”The Rev. Nathan Walker of First Baptist. Church gave the invocation. The high school band, under direction of Harry J. Patterson, provided several numbers and the school chorus, under direction of Clifton Peguese, sang The Lord Is The Mighty God and God Bless Our Land.The Class of 1967 was presented by George T. WTatson, principal, for receiving diplomas, delivered by Supt. Charles W. Shumake. The Pass Christian Rotary Club and Sylvester Saucier Awards were announced. C. Randall Jones presented the Rotarv award to the valedictorian, Miss Romain and J. Mitchel presented the Sylvester Saucier memorial award to dtis Sanders.The program was closed with the benediction by the Rev. J. Pittman of the St. Paul Methodist Church, and postlude bythe band.Graduating with honors were Ruby Jean Johnson Edith Del-phine Guillotte and Linda Elizabeth Antoine and the valedictorian and salutatorian, Miss Romain and Miss Martin.Other graduates:Adrenne Jannette Deaduax, Linnie Virginia Hannah, Martha James, Wanda Jerry La-bat, Patsy , Josephine Lizana, Brenda Mvrtis Roberts, Rose Mary Thomas, Beulah White, Brenda Mae Barnes, Marcella Karen Bowser, Earlene Nora Lee Bradley.Stephanie Ann Brown, LeoRita Irene Chariot Brenda Joyce Dedeaux, Cynthia Marie Dedeaux. Marie Louise Ded-1 eaux, Gwendolyn Guy, Charles Joslph Breaux, Herbert Butler, Rudolph S. Cardreon, Walter Rogers Cook, Elmo Michael Jacobs Jr., Willie W. James, Lawrence Williams.
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Biloxi Daily Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Fri, Jun 02, 1967
Page 16
Full Page
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