Prayers of university presidents and school superintendents for commencement exercises to be executed as planned often are short-circuited.Some leaders are extremists – the kind who decree that neither blaring air horns nor unseemly yells will be tolerated. Their wish is for “pomp” to be exceeded only by “circumstance.” Often, they experience countless “slips ‘twixt cup and lip.”On occasion, though, commencement “foulups” are trumped by what may well be “Acts of God” that ascend to the peak of memories’ mountains.One recently occurred in Nacogdoches, TX, home of Stephen F. Austin State University. Hours after Mother Nature lashed out, a series of ...