Tonight I made my first visit back to SBU since my graduation in December. This time I was attending another graduation ceremony because my dad completed his M.S. in Educational Administration. I was very proud of him for doing all the hard work required for his degree. I'm hoping that he will do well in his future career endeavours along this new path. It's also amusing to me that we're both alum of SBU now!
Being back on the SBU campus brought me a sense of nostalgia and pride in my alma mater. When everyone sung the SBU Alma Mater song tonight, I actually sang it happily for the first time. When I was a student and had to sing it at every official ceremony, it got quite old, but now the words actually carry meaning to me.
Being back on the SBU campus brought me a sense of nostalgia and pride in my alma mater. When everyone sung the SBU Alma Mater song tonight, I actually sang it happily for the first time. When I was a student and had to sing it at every official ceremony, it got quite old, but now the words actually carry meaning to me.
So, as a tribute to my Alma Mater, here are the words to the song:
"To thee, our alma mater, SBU,
We pledge our love and loyalty;
For golden memories and the friends we cherish,
We thank and honor thee;
And with a heritage of faith in Christ,
We set our minds on things above,
That we might carry on thy great tradition of service born of love.
To meet the challenge of the years to come,
Thy bold commitment to maintain,
May we be faithful to the task before us;
To learn, lead, teach, and train;
And with our hearts united now in love,
This prayer for thee our voices raise:
'God bless thee, SBU, our alma mater,
And hallow all thy days.'"
I know the song is super-corny, but I really am proud of SBU and have fond memories of my time there as a student. Tonight after the graduation ceremony I saw one of my old professors, Dr. Brewer. He was one of my professors who had a profound impact on my life. He sees me as someone with great potential and has encouraged me to pursue God's calling on my life. It's because of professors like him that I hope to be a college professor someday myself. It will be interesting to see how God uses me to impact the lives of others in the future, just like my professors at SBU have impacted my life.
"To thee, our alma mater, SBU,
We pledge our love and loyalty;
For golden memories and the friends we cherish,
We thank and honor thee;
And with a heritage of faith in Christ,
We set our minds on things above,
That we might carry on thy great tradition of service born of love.
To meet the challenge of the years to come,
Thy bold commitment to maintain,
May we be faithful to the task before us;
To learn, lead, teach, and train;
And with our hearts united now in love,
This prayer for thee our voices raise:
'God bless thee, SBU, our alma mater,
And hallow all thy days.'"
I know the song is super-corny, but I really am proud of SBU and have fond memories of my time there as a student. Tonight after the graduation ceremony I saw one of my old professors, Dr. Brewer. He was one of my professors who had a profound impact on my life. He sees me as someone with great potential and has encouraged me to pursue God's calling on my life. It's because of professors like him that I hope to be a college professor someday myself. It will be interesting to see how God uses me to impact the lives of others in the future, just like my professors at SBU have impacted my life.
1 comment:
Well, most "Alma Mater" songs are quite "corny", I guess. Really, it's probably the concept: the university doesn't actually give birth to you ("Our Mother").
But, at least, SBU's does have the virtue of being original, unlike many other universities.
SBU actually had a marching band for a short time during the late 80's. I was privileged to arrange the song for them to play.
The author, if I remember correctly, at least of the music, is a Carthage, MO native. I live near that town to this day ;-)
Thanks for the blog :-)
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