Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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: 3m ■ , -=JV : • . 1i ear lectejj me and treated me with awe and reverence. Older folks came to The year 1967 marks I ly one hundredth birthday. I was conceived as a dream by several far-sighted persons in the year 1865 and became a reality when I was born on a hill overlooking the town of Clarion in Western Pennsylvania in 1867. I was outstanding for my time, solidly built, w ;h a large and sturdy frame. I took up my position so that my eyes could look out in all four directions from my lofty perch on the hill taftust Safr that I was quite a persona admire rue and the ethics and ideal During my long and colorful lifetime, i t hajs o BU ny. privitegi to ha equipments Seen ;ilso not-so-young joy and happiness with them, and sometimes trouble and sorrow. • ' I Man has progressed in his world in the past century and I have observed all of the clfanges- catelul ufficient for majl years, but eventually I realized that I must expand. Since my frame was not expandable, it was ' rH«e«sary pr rae ■Co 9 r mighty oak casts acorns as a means for reproduction, the plans for my offspring grew from me, and have hill. My contribution to the training of people has also expanded. However, my purpose has remained the same make the best contribution to higher learning whirl) is possible. am the luckifl rs, I have served tie sentimental mi ing from my interior and also have heard the voice of despair when my requireincnt j njed has been probed and prodded by several generations of ybung people -and als4 noi itall T ms Uiat J h;i art lli iog in Clarion fu my picture has been published many times and everyone knows me. Also for the ved the nasic department and I lovedthe livwtajjarches which the band played and I swayed in the breeze 1 fiMugnW id tall each time the band played the Alma Mater. How proud I am to have rpos Jredth anniversary any out to exit from th( become a thine of tin N ' iW, it -eem pnf-J have se on earth with thejftner sion on have known and loved me through the yeaTb. lviany oi inose lneniis who welt nail soon follow tliern. No not grieve for me, ' . i I have served you we n Crno ' l am tiredfcand wear braces to help me stand. I cat .! u e to mankind and my work here only that those who have kngg Jrid loved m a ■ i- n I Inhered and symliol of higher Jty arne andfthal of my offatjrin- Hall, the. one whomartea alilhis acti |ind old. is diawii ei leami scene. It is planned that I end my tenu past except in the memory of those nlier years have already departed, aT I. For several years now, I have had to ng to a close. Asii Jast request I ask rning, remember vHnlh affection. ■■ «:rfxtari; ' ed .ss-verpi times ihiough the years, hut I would like . ' ity Vvlli fl is now (JflTlori State College. emhered as Seminar 17

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Future Alumni begin with Freshman orientation — 1967 Miss Christien Stevens, 67 alumna, trying her ne wly learned teaching skills on a potential crop of college students.

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Dr. James Gemmell President