While I was studying and doing research for a paper (the proposal is due Sunday night and I can’t even decide on the subject), my wife was going through some boxes. She found something very interesting.
I thought it was worth sharing.
My father, Terry L. Baker, graduated from Kirkman Technical High School on May 26, 1963. Would you like to make comparisons to baccalaureate services of today? Check out the parts that are underlined.
What would the A.C.L.U. say?!
The Program
Place of baccalaureate service: Red Bank Baptist Church
Prelude: “The Heavens are Telling“
Processional: “God of Our Fathers“
Invocation: Pastor Ralph Norton
The Invocation Response: G. P. da Palestrina
Solo: “Just for Today” (by a student)
Scripture Reading: by Class of 1963 President of the Miracle Book Club
Congregational Hymn: “O Worship the King”
Solo: “One God” (by a student)
Baccalaureate Message: The Rev. Dr. Ralph Norton
“The Lords Prayer”: (read by a student)
Bennediction: Dr. Ralph Norton
How much of this would be allowed today? Who would go to jail for these horrible crimes against humanity? Over 220 graduates and their families went to this service, and not one complained.
Amazing.
The Recovering Legalist 
My school got away with Scripture readings and a prayer, but we were also a small, country school. When I tell people my graduating class was barely 72, some of them are amazed. I have met people from smaller schools, and even that seems small by what it is today, 11 years after my graduation. This year’s class is blowing away that number (the highest until two years ago!): 185. Last year’s was just 89.
Anywho, it is becoming more rare, it is true.
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Number of students in my 1985 graduating class…..5!
Being in the top 5 of my graduating class…..priceless!
Anthony Psalm 57:2
Sent from iPhone.
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That is rather amazing! I was 36th, meaning right in the middle. But 23 of my classmates had weighted GPA’s over 4.00, so it was kind of unfair.
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I wish times were like that now. You can’t even say Merry Christmas without fear of offending someone or getting involved in a lawsuit.
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