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Record Number To Receive
Degrees At Commencement
Eighty-nine seniors, the largest number yet, will receive de
grees at commencement to be held in the college auditorium
June 5.
Dr. John Kenneth Folger Sr M|
Dean of Florida State Univer
sity, will deliver the gradua
tion address.
Candidates for degrees of
Bachelor of Science in Educa
tion are: June Smith Akin, Jer
ome Donald Andrews, Clarin
da Bellew, James Eugene Beck
ham, Lenora Ann Black, Re
becca Bennett Bond, Solon Rich
ard Borders, Florence Camp
Brigman, King Daniel Brown,
Hollis Wallace Cannon, Mar
ianne Byram Chance, Albert
Morton Cohen;
Ernest Donald Daniel, La
verne Dean, Ruby Ann Deriso,
Jean Lovvorn Dewberry, Ann
Williams Duncan, Patricia Joye
Edwards, class president, Mel
vin Gene Gillespie, Gerald
Glenn Griffies, Shirley Ann Har
bin, Marguerite Conway Har
den, Barbara Ann Harris, Mi
chael Wayne Hartsfield;
Peggie Honey Hiers, Martha
Cecile Hill, Steven Dewey
Hughes, Peggy Pelot Jackson,
Sylvia Diane Lancaster, Ken
neth Eugene Lash. Martha
Glenda Lewis, Sandra Alexan
der Luckie, Eve Lavern Mcln
tosh, Stephen Hopkin Norris,
Patricia Lucille Phillips. Jim
mie Ernestine Pless, Carole
Hunt Rackley;
Sylvia Sloan Raiford, Joy
Norman Refo, Annette Wil
loughby Robinson, William Ed
ward Shotwell, Kaylene Brock
Smith, Robert Brevard Smith,
Alice Westra Stewart, Donald
Phillip Thibeault, Cecilia Claire
Upton, Gerald Wayne Wade.
Carolyn Lee Warren, Flora
Janice Weaver, Shirley Patricia
Wessinger, Barbara Nell Wha
ley, Carol Crews Whitlock.
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James Leon Fuss, William
Richard Gammon, Sue Yar
brough Hampton, Jerry Pratt
Holland;
Charles Lyndale Huffman
Earnest Preston Johnson, Law
rence Paul Jones, Joseph Hugh
Kitchens, Fred P. Lam, Jerry
Edward Lanier, Gerald Arthur
Mayes, Lexie Arleen McDonald,
Barbera Shelnutt Mitcham,
Mickey Franklin Owen, Linda
Sue Parrish, David Richard
Peterson, Charlotte Elaine
Shipp, Kathleen Joan Skinner,
Gloria Caldwell Vaughn, Char
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bama, perhaps with children,
she would never know if she
could stop at a decent motel,
eat a decent meal or if the chil
dren could use a bathroom.
“It is a continuous insult,”
he stated.
FUTURE PLANS
Mr. Kennedy was asked
about his future plans. “To tell
you frankly, I just don’t know,”
he replied. The students
chuckled when he said, “the
suggestion has been made that
I move out of Washington and
go to some other state.”
He was asked if he would
accept the vice presidential
nomination. He said nobody
had asked him to run for the
vice presidency.
GOV. WALLACE
On Gov. Wallaces’ large vote
in northern primaries, he said
he wasn't surprised. “Some
people will vote against any
thing,” he said. Asa practical
matter, he said he didn’t think
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THE WEST GEORGIAN
I come today to express the
pride and the deeply felt appre
ciation of the Kennedy family
for the honor you pay to Presi
dent Kennedy by naming your
chapel after him, and to join
with you in expressing thanks
to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Catholic Church for its crea
tive generosity.
I thank you for I know that
what you are doing here, at
this growing and enlightened in
situation which has done so
much for its community, would
be a source of great satisfac
tion to President Kennedy. And
I thank you for the many kind
nesses Georgia extended to
him, beginning in November,
1960.
His candidacy and election
exemplify tolerance. This cha
pel is an expression of the
same spirit of tolerance. And
that is a spirit which is as old
as Georgia.
The charitable groups in |
England which sponsored settle
ment of the colony of Georgia
lotte Dianne Walker;
Jennifer Marie Walker
Thomas Larry Wallis, Dora Co
rinne Walls, Linda Louise Wes
singer, Benjamin Lawrence Wil
liams, Clayton Jerome Wil
liams, Charles Olin Wyche.
Candidates for Certificate in
Business Education are: Leila
Anne Champion, Glenda Ruth
Hannah, Sybil Jean Holcomb,
Gwen Burson Kitchens, Car
olyn Joan Monnerat, Beverly
Frances McDonald, Charlotte
Louise McGee, Velma Gladys
Spruill, Emily Virginia Sum
mers, Gloria Jeanne Thomas,
Patricia Mildred Wade, Julia
Inez Wilder.
teamster officials. “In fact, we
have convicted 105 of them on
charges ranging from extor
tion to dope peddling.”
“They were violating the
laws of the United States and
it’s my job to enforce the laws.
I intend to keep doing it,” he
said.
UNSUCCESSFUL
The Attorney General said
that Communists “have been
remarkably unsuccessful in
their efforts to “infiltrate the
civil rights movement. He said
the Justice Department watch
es the Communists continuous
ly.
He was asked what he
thought about Senator Goldwa
ter’s proposal to use nuclear
weapons in Viet Nam. “Well,
I wasn’t surprised,” he an
swered.
He told the students about
some of the plans for the John
F. Kennedy Memorial Library.
He said it would be different
from any other library. More
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v °en photographed
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oral his
news
saw it as a haven fsr the per
secuted and the poor. Contribu
tions poured in from all class
es of people. The clergy, for ex
ample, gave thousands of
books. One of the notable titles
was A Friendly Admonition to
the Drinkers of Gin, Brandy
and other Spirituous Liquors,
a volume whose message, I
am certain, is still being taken
to heart.
Your first settlers were
warmly received by the other
colonies. South Carolina sent
horses, cattle, hogs, rice, and
2,000 pounds in cash. Thomas
Penn sent 100 pounds in cash.
In my home state, however,
the opponents of foreign aid
prevailed; the Governor of
Massachusetts sent his best
wishes.
Georgia flourished nonethe
less. Its promise for religious
refugees was so great that be
fore the colony was six years
old, it had as varied a popula
tion as any, with Swiss, Salz
burgers, Moravians, Germans,
Jews, Piedmontese, Scotch
Highlanders, Welsh, and Eng
lish.
Yet not even in the New
World, not even in Georgia, did
all the early settlers find free
dom of faith. Catholics, for ex
ample, were not admitted to
Georgia for seventy years. In
other colonies, they were ha
rassed, Quakers were jailed
and Protestant sects were
hounded.
It was in the South, in Vir
ginia, that resentment against
these practices flowered into
religious freedom. With Madi
son and Jefferson in the van
guard, the Virginia Bill of Reli
gious Liberty was enacted, to
be followed by the First
Amendment, separating church
and state.
Official intolerance thus end
ed. Religions were free to
preach, to grow, and to multi
ply. If a group of Boston peo
ple thought the world was go
ing to end in the mid-nineteenth
century, they were free to con
gregate in a theater, clad in
robes, ready to perish together.
If Mormans or Christian Sci
entists or followers of sects
with more limited appeal, like
that of the mystic Madame
Blavatsky, have sought to ex
press their faith in new ways,
they have been free do do so.
If Catholics have chosen to at
tend mass early Sunday and
Jews to observe the Sabbath
at sundown Friday, there has
been none to forbid them.
And yet, as has been dem
onstrated repeatedly during
our history, legal separation of
church and state is not enough.
It ended official intolerance; it
could not end private intoler
ance.
And there have been those,
throughout our history —and
particularly in times of crisis
who have preached intoler
ance, who have sought to es
cape reality and responsibility
with a slogan or a scapegoat.
Religious groups have been the
first targets but they have not
been the only ones.
There are those who suspect
their neighbors because they
pray to a diffrent God or
because they pray to none at
all. And there are those who
bellow that a former President
of the United States is a tool
f the Communist conspiracy.
°re are those who preach
FRIDAY, MAY 29. 1984
that desegragation of the
schools will destroy our socie
ty. And there are others who
believe that calamity will occur
because of the way we may
treat our drinking water.
There is freedom in this
country to be extreme, to pro
pose the most reactionary or
the most utopian solutions to
all the problems of the coun
try or even the world. There is
freedom here to believe and act
with passion, whether for the
cause of religion, or party, or
personal welfare.
“If there be any among us,”
Jefferson said, “who would
wish to dissolve this Union or
to change its Republican form,
let them stand undisturbed as
monuments of the safety with
which error of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left
free to combat it.”
What is objectionable, what is
dangerous about extremists is
not that they are extreme, but
that they are intolerant. The
evil is not what they say about
their cause, but what they say
about their opponents.
The intolerant man will not
rely on persuasion, or on the
worth of the idea. He would
deny to others the very freedom
of opinion or of dissent which
he so stridently demands for
himself. He cannot trust demo
cracy.
Frustrated by rejection, he
condemns the motives, the
morals, or the patriotism of all
who disagree. Whether he is in
flamed by politics, or religion
or drinking water, he still
spreads selfish slogans and
false fears.
America’s answer to the in
tolerant man is diversity the
very diversity which our heri
tage of religious freedom has
inspired.
The largest Scandinavian na
tion in the world is the United
States. The largest Irish na
tion in the world is the United
States. The second largest Ger
man nation in the world is the
United States. And like state
ments could be made about
other American ethnic groups.
Many voices, many views all
have combined into an Ameri
can consensus, and it has been
a consensus of good sense. “In
the multitude of counselors,
there is safety,” says the Bi
ble, and so it is with American
democracy. Tolerance is an ex
pression of trust in that consen
sus and each new enlargement
of tolerance is an elargement
of democracy.
President Kennedy’s election
was such an enlargement. It
expanded religious freedom to
include the highest office in
the land. President Kennedy’s
administration was such an en
largement. It advanced the day
when the bars of intolerance
against all minority groups will
be lifted, not only for the Presi
dency, but for all aspects of
our national life.
And this chapel is a warmly
fitting tribute to President Ken
nedy not only because it bears
his name but because it, too,
expresses and advances the
spirit of tolerance among reli
gions and among men.
It was for this spirit that
President Kennedy spoke, act
ed, lived, and led. “Let us go
forth,” he said, in the closing
words of his Inaugural Ad
dress, “to lead the land we
love, asking His blessing and
His help, but knowing that here
on earth, God’s work must
truly be our own.”