Allegany College of Maryland - Odyssey Yearbook (Cumberland, MD)

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MMER lives. sg the essary d. In stored athers 1 still olitics :eriod 5 that unfits arise , and it for nuous 'ident A philosopher has told us that growth is the only evidence of life, and, it seems to me, that this is true. Some people stop growing in their teens, others are still growing in their ninties. It all depends on the individual. By growth, we mean, of course, much more than just increase in physical, size. If we hope to continue growing, we must always keep our vision on distant and ever-receding hori- zons, we must be willing to explore new avenues of discovery, to climb toward new peaks of aspira- tion, to open new doors of opportunity, to seek new worlds to conquer, and new loads to lift. We must not shrink from the new, the untried, the unknown, nor abhor that which we do not under- stand. We should believe deeply in many things, but not so tenaciously that we cannot change when change is necessary because of new discoveries or revelations. DR. MYRON L. SIMPSON We should look always to the rising, not the setting sung to the new day, the new challenge, the new opportunity, the new hope. We must be friendly, tolerant, understanding, and sympathetic, ever mind- ful of the other fellow and respectful of his rights and privileges. We hope that, as students of Allegany Com- munity College, you have experienced this phe- nomenon of growth-this process of education- and that we have equipped you to continue it for all the rest of your lives. we trust that, in growing, you will never cease to marvel at, to query, and to be humbled by this big, wide, wonderful world we live in. And we hope, too, that you will never find the answers to all of your questions. Myron L. Simpson Defm of Academic Affairs Dr. Myron L. Simpson at the Dean's Reception

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President i Theodore Roosevelt has a bit of philosophy that we might well use as arule and guide in our lives. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effortg the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used. right, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure, he shows he deserves his good fortune. But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period not of preparation but of mere enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer on the earth's surface, and he surely unfits himself to hold his own with his fellows if the need to do should arise again. A mere life of ease is not in the end a satisfactory life, and ' above all it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for ELI f Y serious work in the world. -Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life. DR. ROBERT S. ZIMMER, President Allegany Community College W' 1 Dr. 8: Mrs. Zimmer Nmwwhmm 1 Dr. Robert S. Zimmer, President of College, Sen- ator Joseph Tydings, Sen- ator of United States DR. ROBERT S. ZIMMER

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' ,XM .,,, .QA- fyw J L., QfR'cu11ax: STUDENT ' PERSONNEL ? I E MRS. SHARON C. LOTZ , H A .W Secretary f M, XXX, W 4, . 1: ,4,fQ2Q,N , N. . 4 mf ff , ,. . H. ,,,. 'W , 1 'Q I , , Wfvf-W , ' r fe. . Q 3 C 'K Y f ' ,ff f V My 5 . ' fn. f-ff 4 .1-my .l 0 W 1 'gh' ' , ' nf I0 MR. WAYNE C. ROUSH Registrar