Graduation Speech

Spoken January 23, 1946 – Oakdale Christian School – Grand Rapids, Michigan Teachers, parents, friends: It is my privilege and my pleasure, in the name of the class of 1946, to speak to you a few words of appreciation and farewell. We are happy and proud, of course, to have come to this evening, at last, and yet so soon. We are happy and proud to be graduating. Not as if there is no sorrow mingled with the happiness, for there is. We realize only too well that this pleasant and carefree...