Lectures on Bible Topics and Music Spark Graduation Rites

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December 10, 2010
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This article titled Lectures on Bible Topics and Music Spark Graduation Rites appeared in THE PITTSBURGH COURIER on June 20, 1970.
The following article is about the Harty Bible School graduates of 1970 who just completed a thorough comprehensive four-year course in studying the Holy Scriptures. The 1970 Harty Bible School Class consisted of laymen and ministers.
Mrs Beatrice L. Saunders Robinson is the mother of Ronald B. Saunders and Thomas John Saunders Jr.
Mrs Beatrice Lee Saunders Robinson was the (1970) Graduating Class President.
Mrs Robinson taught at the Harty Bible School for 35 years and she is a past Dean and President of the Harty Bible School.
Our mother (Mrs Beatrice L. Robinson) was also the first two term President of the Harty Bible School Alumni Association.
Mrs Robinson received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Academy of Honors on May 28, 2002, and she was recognized as an expert on the Genesis section of the Bible which is the subject that she taught at the Harty Bible School.
The Harty Bible School with branch campuses on the North side of Pittsburgh, Aliquippa PA, McKeesport PA, Philadelphia PA, and the main school on Centre Avenue is one of the top full study Bible Schools in the country.

Lectures on Bible Topics and Music Spark Graduation Rites

Harty Bible School held its graduation exercises Wednesday June 1oth in the Christian Tabernacle Kodesh of Immanuel. The nine happy graduates, who have studied and worked for years to reach this point, made an impressive sight in their white robes and mortar boards.
The program was an exciting mixture of speeches, music and close communion between the graduates, the teachers, the families and friends who filled the Tabernacle.
In keeping with the theme for the evening, "God's Plan for Redemption," the following persons participated as commencement speakers, Louise D. Payne, Daisy M. Buckner, Walker Vauters, Charles W. Buckner and Beatrice L Robinson, class president, who also gave the charge to members of the class of 1971.
Special music for the occasion was offered in duet form by Grace Thomas and Florence Woodruff and Ravella Tunie Hopson a 1969 graduate and Scharnell Tunie.
Other graduates who received their diplomas from the hands of Mrs Marie Charles president of the school were, Rev. Alfrederick W. Blaylock, who gave the invocation; James W. Chavers and Eva Mae Thomas.
Closing the program were Rev. Ellsworth W. Holmes and Supervising Elder, Rev. F. R. Killingsworth.

*December 10th is my mother's birthday and she gave me the following poem with no title.

I met God in the morning
When my day was at its best
and His presence came like sunrise
Like a glory in my breast

All day long His presence lingered:
All day long He stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness
Over a very troubled sea.

Other ships were blown and battered
Other ships were sore distressed:
But the winds that seemed to drive them
Brought to us a peace and rest

Then I thought of other mornings
With a keen remorse of mind
When I, too, had loosed the mornings
With my Savior behind.

So, I think I know the secret
Learned from many a troubled way,
You must seek God in the morning
If you want him through the day.