THE PROSSIONAL HYMN

Praise the Source of Faith and Learning arr. by Nancy Farndale

To the tune of “Hymn of Joy.”Congregation shall remain seated. Sung by Noah McLaughlin

Nancy Farndale, Piano

Praise the source of faith and learning who has sparked and stoked the mind with a passion for discerning how the world has been designed. Let the sense of wonder flowing from the wonders we survey keep our faith forever growing and renew our need to pray.

God of wisdom, we acknowledge that our science and our art and the breadth of human knowledge only partial truth impart. Far beyond our calculation lies a depth we cannot sound where your purpose for creation and the pulse of life are found.

May our faith redeem the blunder of believing that our thought has displaced the grounds for wonder which the ancient prophets taught. May our learning curb the error which unthinking faith can breed lest we justify some terror with an antiquated creed.

Musical interlude

As two currents in a river fight each other’s undertow till converging they deliver one coherent steady flow, Blend, O God, our faith and learning till they carve a single course, while they join as one returning praise and thanks to you their source.

The Baccalaureate Litany

Please stand as you are able.

P: Lord God, you are a hidden God at work in all things.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: Hidden God, you have been at work in all of our lives to bring us to this place that is Waldorf University.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: Hidden God, you have been at work through all that happens here through professors, classmates, classes, practices, rehearsals, performances, completion, friendships, and life together with each other in community, to shape and mold us.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: Hidden God, during the past year and a half we have had to adapt, think critically and creatively to fulfill the demands this world places on us in hew ways.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: Hidden God, we have masked and socially distanced to love and protect our neighbors. May we always, in all things, live our lives to love and protect our neighbors.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: Hidden God, we pray that in our time here you have molded us to be the people the world needs us to be when we leave this place.

C: Lord God, help us to trust when we cannot see.

P: May we all have a faith and courage to hear your call and to be who the world needs us to be.

C: Amen

Special Music

The Vocalize arr. by

Myra Meyer on French Horn

Prayer Of The Day

P: Let us pray:

Rachmaninoff

C: O God, we pause on this day to say thank you for these years that have been college for us: for the friendships that have formed; for the lessons that have been learned in and out of the classroom; for the hard times and the good times. May the hidden lessons of this strange last year also shape us to be the people you need us to be, so that our lives may be of service to others where we go now to live and to work. Amen.

Congregation shall be seated.

The Readings

Exodus 33: 18-23

John 1:14, 18

Homily

A masked God Rev. Steven Smith

The Prayers Of The People

Please join at the conclusion of each petition of prayer.

P: Lord, in your mercy;

C: Hear our prayer.

Special Music

Be Like the Bird Abbi Abbie Betinis Schola

Cantorum

Dr. Emilie Bertram, Conductor

THE LORD’S PRAYER

C: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Congregation shall be seated.

The Blessing

Please stand as you are able.

Sending

P: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God!

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

The Recessional Hymn

Sung by Noah McLaughlin

Nancy Farndale, Piano

O God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home.

Under the shadow of your throne your saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is your arm alone, and our defense is sure.

Before the hills in order stood or earth received its frame, from everlasting you are God, to endless years the same.

A thousand ages in your sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.

Time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all our years away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the op’ning day.

O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, Still be our guard while troubles last and our eternal home.

Commencement

SATURDAY, MAY EIGHTH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE TWO O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON

A. DAVID BOLSTORFF FIELD

WALDORF UNIVERSITY, FOREST CITY, IOWA

Program

PRELUDE

Mystic Springs by James Bicigo

Waldorf University Brass

M. Cory Schmitt, Conductor

Processional

Dublin Fanfare by James Bicigo

Pomp & Circumstance by Edward Elgar

Waldorf University Brass

Crucifer: Lauren Dohlman ’22

Sheffield, IA

University Marshal:

Professor Julienne Friday

Professor of Sociology/Psychology

Faculty Marshals:

Dr. Missy Reynolds

Associate Professor of Health Promotion & Exercise Science

Prof. Tiffany Olson

Professor of Communications

Dr. Paul Bartelt

Professor of Biology

Prof. John Robinson

Professor of Business

NATIONAL ANTHEM arr. by Ludvig T. Wangberg

Waldorf University Brass

Soloist: Melanie Harms-Espeland

Associate Professor of Music

THE INVOCATION WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Rev. Steven Smith

Assistant Professor and Chair of Religion and Philosophy

Dr. Robert Alsop

President of the University

GREETINGS FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

RECOGNITION OF RECIPIENTS PRESIDENT’S AWARD

FACULTY/STAFF RECOGNITIONS

DOCTORATE OF HUMANE LETTERS

Response

Anthems

Prof. David Damm

Professor of Communications

Dr. David Weber

Chair, board of Trutees

Dr. Robert Alsop

Dr. Robert Alsop

Dr. Robert Alsop, Dr. Vincent Beach & Dr. David Webber

Mr. Raymond Beebe

Doctorate of Humane Letters

Baba Yetu by Christopher Tin

Beautiful Savior arr. by F. Melius Christiansen

The Waldorf Choir

Dr. Emilie Bertram, Conductor

THE PRESENTATION OF THE CLASSES

Dr. Vincent Beach

Vice President for Academic Affair and Dean of the University

THE CONFERRING OF DEGREES

Dr. David Weber

Dr. Robert Alsop

Mr. Darrell Barbour

University Registrar

Dr. Jeff Barksdale

Dean of Online Programs

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INDUCTION

THE ALMA MATER

All hail to thee, O Waldorf Thy praises we will sing; Through thy beloved lobby

The echoing anthems ring. We sing of precepts noble, Of loyalty and truth, Of love and labor blending To guide the steps of youth.

THE BENEDICTION

THE RECESSIONAL

Dr. Tom Wicks, ’88 Alumni Board President

(Sung by Schola Cantorum)

We love our Waldorf College, The school of Vikings bold; We love her royal colors, The purple and the gold. Then hail, all hail to Waldorf, Our Alma Mater dear; May heaven’s richest blessings Crown every passing year.

Rev. Steven Smith

Departure of the Graduates: Recessional Leslie Smith (Original by Johannes Brahms) Waldorf University Brass