Snow College Commencement 2010

The best day of the year is Commencement. I am indebted to Greg Dart for these pictures.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Former president of Brigham Young University and member of the Quorum of The Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered our commencement address this year. Many of our students transfer to BYU after completing their studies at Snow College. It was such a delight to have Elder Holland on our campus, and to hear his encouragement and advice to our graduating students.

Elder Holland's address was entitled, "Voices from the Past" and he pulled together a beautiful collection of life suggestions from such people from the past as Thomas Wolsey, Rudyard Kipling, and John Doone.

Towards the conclusion to his commencement address became more personal. He said, "Above all else you have learned here, may you leave this great school secure in the promise of God's unfailing love for you. You undoubtedly will, as Donne says, have days ahead when you may feel dark, cold, clouded, or eclipsed. But if you desire God's mercy, I promise that help will come to you, "not in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at [full] noon. . . . [banishing every] shadow." All occasions invite divine mercy, and in heaven it is always harvest time."

American Government 2010 Tour

At the end of each spring semester my American Government class finishes up the year with a tour of American government and history sites on the East Coast. We spent a day in Boston, New York and Philadelphia and two days in Washington D.C. In route from historic Philadelphia to Valley Forge we stopped at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to run the "Rocky Steps," a place of debatable significance in American history but a fun diversion nevertheless.