The Waltons The Graduation Review
4John-Boy prepares for his graduation from high school. The family secretly plots to take him on a trip to buy a new suit for college. When Chance the cow passes away John-Boy decides to return his new clothes to the store to help pay for the new milking cow. He stops by Ike's who is upset that he didn't get an invitation to the graduation. John goes to Henry Cottle's farm to arrange the purchase of a new cow. He wants $20 and needs the money more than bartered services. As a graduation present the Baldwin sister's give John-Boy a tie-pin that had been intended for Ashley Longworth. When John-Boy gives the money from his new clothes to his parents they decide to alter Grandpa's tweed suit for college. As John and John-Boy bring home the new milking cow John gives his son words of advise on who he is and to not forget where he comes from.\n\n John-Boy says his final good-bye Marcia with a passionate kiss that is interrupted by Ike who gives John-Boy a new fountain pen. The graduation ceremony takes place with John-Boy giving the valedictorian speec