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GRADUATION DAY
Remembering
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Trying to define an "instant tradition"
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Special applause for John Melancon and Bob Barnard
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The round of weddings as some grads started their Air Force careers and their married life simultaneously
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Trying to figure out what to do with the old cadet uniforms. (At least one wound up as part of a very high quality braided rag rug!)
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Marveling at the idea of a metal diploma.
Air Force Secretary James Douglas congratulates Bradley C. Hosmer, the top-honor man in the first graduating class at the Air Force Academy. Hosmer will go to England this summer as a Rhodes Scholar. Hosmer would later in 1991 become the very first graduate to serve as USAFA Superintendent.
Photos from the Rocky Mountain news, June 4, 1959
Written over 800 years ago by Saint Francis of Assisi
and read by Col. C. E. Zielinski, the Catholic Chaplain
GRADUATION BENEDICTION
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
That where there is hatred I may bring love,
That where there is wrong I may bring the spirit of forgiveness,
That where there is discord I may bring harmony,
That where there is error I may bring truth,
That were there is doubt I may bring faith,
That where there is despair I may bring hope,
That where there are shadows I may bring Thy light,
That where there is sadness I may bring joy,
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted,
To understand than to be understood,
To love than to be loved,
For
It is by giving that one receives,
It is by self-forgetting that one finds,
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven,
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Information and Headlines in the Rocky Mountain News,
Thursday, June 4, 1959
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207 AIR CADETS ARE GRADUATED
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Mice Rocketed Into Space Fail to Orbit
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West Offers Limit on Berlin Troops
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Nicaragua’s Air Force Alerted for Rebel Action
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Britain next week takes the secrecy wraps off a strange-looking machine it claims is the first-ever flying saucer
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House Okays Spending $38 Billion on Defense
A FINAL REMINISCENCE
General Harmon's funeral parade, and recognition of all that he had done to make the dreams of a professional Air Force Academy come true!
