{"id":331,"date":"2008-06-06T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-06-06T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:59:38","slug":"presbyterians-to-honor-two-high-school-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterians to honor two high school graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At 10:30 a.m. worship this Sunday, June 8, local Presbyterians will honor 2008 Tyrone graduates Dudley McNitt and Kenneth Nearhoof in a service that will include a vocal solo by Leslie Ieraci Estep, Edward Elgar\u2019s \u201cPomp and Circumstance March,\u201d a message by Pastor Mark Liller, audience hymns of commitment, and an after church fellowship hour to greet the graduates.
\nDudley McNitt, the son of Cummins and Peg McNitt of Tyrone, who has served as a Presbyterian church deacon, will graduate from Tyrone High next Friday evening, and plans to pursue medical studies\u00a0 at the Johnstown Campus of the University Of Pittsburgh. Kenneth Nearhoof, the son of Robert and Rebecca Nearhoof of Warriors Mark, also will graduate from Tyrone High next Friday evening, and plans to pursue Dairy Science studies at his mother\u2019s alma mater – the state University Of New York in Morrisville, New York.
\nMrs. Leslie Ieraci Estep, a graduate of Juniata College and Saint Francis University, member of Saint Matthew\u2019s parish, and presently dean of Tyrone\u2019s middle school students, will offer a special vocal solo as part of the graduate recognition program. As these two Presbyterian youth prepare to graduate, Mrs. Estep will sing Phil Johnson\u2019s fitting solo entitled, \u201cI\u2019ve Never Been Out Of His Care.\u201d
\nPresbyterian organist Richard Merryman will pay a musical tribute to McNitt and Nearhoof at the offertory, when he performs Edward Elgar\u2019s celebrated \u201cPomp and Circumstance March,\u201d sometimes christened \u201cThe Graduation Song.\u201d When British Composer Edward Elgar created his famous march in 1901, he whispered to his friend Dora Penny, \u201cI have composed a tune that will knock them flat.\u201d At the debut of \u201cPomp And Circumstance,\u201d The audience gave Elgar a standing ovation, and insisted that the orchestra perform the march three times. In 1902, Elgar\u2019s melody became modified into the anthem entitled \u201cLand Of Hope And Glory,\u201d for the coronation of England\u2019s King Edward VII.
\nElgar\u2019s \u201cPomp and Circumstance March\u201d first arrived in America on June 28, 1905 for Yale\u2019s commencement, on which occasion Yale awarded Edward Elgar an honorary Doctorate of Music. For his march, Elgar drew the title from these lines which appear in Act III of Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy Othello\u00a0 – \u201cFarewell, the neighing horse, and the shrill trumpet\/The spirit-stirring drums, the ear-piercing piccolo\/The royal flag, and all military qualities\/The pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.\u201d
\nEpworth Manor chaplain and Presbyterian preaching pastor Mark Liller will deliver the morning message entitled, \u201cGod Is Not Finished With You Yet.\u201d Using the appointed Old Testament reading for the day\u00a0 from Genesis 12:1-9, Reverend Liller will review God\u2019s call to the ancient Jewish patriarch Abraham. He will remind listeners that when Abraham was seventy-five, God called him to leave his country, his people, and his father\u2019s household, and to journey to the land of Canaan.
\nPastor Liller will remind the audience that no matter what their age, every person has a part in God\u2019s plan, and that other people need the fruit that only certain lives can bear.
\nThe audience will respond to Liller\u2019s homily about God\u2019s call to people of all ages by singing hymns of commitment. These hymns encourage both old and young alike to answer God\u2019s call. The congregation\u00a0 will open with the 1905 hymn Harold Walters composed while teaching English in Japan. Walters entitled his hymn \u201cI Would Be True, For There Are Those Who Trust Me,\u201d and mailed it back to his mother, who resided\u00a0 in the United States, in those long ago days over a century ago.
\nWalter\u2019s friend Joseph Peek provided the melody for this commitment hymn in an extraordinary manner. A florist by profession, Mr. Peek read Harold Walter\u2019s hymn lyrics and simply started whistling a tune that someone else captured as a music manuscript. The florist Mr. Peek also boasted the honor of introducing the double carnation to American flower buyers. After writing his hymn and returning from his English teaching mission in Japan, Walters eventually traveled to India, where he proclaimed Christ\u2019s good news to young people of the Islamic faith. Tragically, Walters died in 1918 at age 35, a victim of the world-wide influenza epidemic.
\nAfter Pastor Liller\u2019s sermon on obeying God\u2019s call, the audience will respond with another hymn of commitment by blind American composer Fanny Crosby, \u201cMaster, thou callest, I gladly obey\/Only direct me, and I\u2019ll find thy way\/Teach me the mission appointed for me\/What is my labor, and where it shall be\/Master, thou callest, and this I reply\/Ready, and willing, Lord, here am I.\u201d Blind almost from birth, Crosby never wavered in her commitment to Christ. During her lifetime, which extended from 1820 to 1915, Crosby composed about 8,000 hymns. The epitaph on Crosby\u2019s tombstone provides a fitting memorial to her committed life, when it reads – \u201cShe Has Done What She Could.\u201d
\nAt the close of worship, McNitt and Nearhoof will join Pastor Liller in greeting people as they depart the worship service. These 2008 Tyrone graduates also will be the honored guests at an after church fellowship hour hosted by the Christian Education Committee in the Christian Education Building hallway.
\nAs the school year closes and summer holiday commences, Tyrone Presbyterians invite the people of Tyrone to join them at 10:30 a.m. this Sunday, June 8 as they reflect on the dual themes of high school graduation and Christian commitment, eloquently embodied in this theme song from the 1969 movie Good-Bye Mr. Chips: \u201cIn the morning of my life, I will look to the sunrise\/At the moment in my life when the day is new\/And the blessing I shall ask is the God will grant me\/To be brave, and strong, and true\/And to fill the world with love my whole life through\/In the noontime of my life, I will look to the sunshine\/At the moment in my life when the sky is blue\/And the blessing I shall ask shall remain unchanging\/To be brave, and strong, and true\/And to fill the world with love my whole life through\/In the evening of my life I will look to the sunset\/At the moment in my life when the night is due\/And the question I shall ask only I can answer\/Was I brave, and strong, and true\/Did I fill the world with love my whole life through?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 10:30 a.m. worship this Sunday, June 8, local Presbyterians will honor 2008 Tyrone graduates Dudley McNitt and Kenneth Nearhoof in a service that will include a vocal solo by Leslie Ieraci Estep, Edward Elgar\u2019s \u201cPomp and Circumstance March,\u201d a message by Pastor Mark Liller, audience hymns of commitment, and an after church fellowship hour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}