GRADUATION TIME

Congratulations to all those who are currently graduating (or soon to be) from educational programs and institutions.

Nettie Bullis highly esteemed education, evidenced by both the scholarship program she put into place at Pal-Mac High School and this class song that was among her papers,  in her handwriting:

"Not Done, Just Begun: Class Song"

Oh! Dear Alma Mater, our child-hood fair home,

We leave thee tonight, through life's pathways to roam.

But to happy days past we will often look back

As we're toiling to clib up life's thorny hard track.

Kind teachers whose words of courage and of cheer

Have taught us what's right, what to life is most dear.

Now parting, we linger here at the open door

Of life's unknown duties, to thank you once more.

We've now reached the foot of the mount of success

Our goal through gray mist we will find at the crest.

The day may be cloudy, and starless the night

But we know that by striving, we'll find a bright light.

Let reason then prompt us to climb ever higher.

Till we reach the far heights to that which we aspire.

And those who will toil though the sky be overcast,

Will quietly be crowned with a glory that lasts.

Oh Goddess of Wisdom, Oh Angel of Light.

We'll need guide of thine, through our life's stormy night.

For we may falter, our life's duties done.

Then help us, Oh help us, with the task we've just begun.

Farewell then, dear teachers, so tried and so true,

Farewell then, dear classmates a loving adieu,

In the far away home, when our life's term is o'er

Our paths now diverging will meet as of yore.

BULLIS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year at graduation time,  Bullis scholarships awarded at local high schools remind us of the generosity of Nettie Bullis and her family.

A Bullis Room volunteer recently presented two scholarships to Gananda graduating seniors: The Abram R. Bullis Mathematical Scholarship and the Nettie Bullis Business Scholarship. And this coming year 141 graduates of Palmyra-Macedon High School will benefit from The Bullis Family Scholarship. The latter scholarship is renewable each spring and varies in amounts, depending on endowment earnings.

All of the Bullises valued education. Some were formally educated, others self-educated, but their books which make up the Bullis Collection is proof of the fact that they never stopped learning.

We too can continue to learn, and today we have so many more opportunities through the electronic media as well as printed books. Let's take advantage of these resources and, like the Bullises, never stop learning.