James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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READING Deut. 6: [-9 Off these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the laud whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and His commandments, which I com- mand thee, thou, and thy sou, and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it: that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with mill: and honey. Hear, Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt lore the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them -when thou sittcst in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest dozen, and when thou riscst up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house, ami on thy gates. PRAYER Almighty Father, we acknowledge thy sovereign authority, and we rejoice in thy per- fect wisdom. Thou hast established law for us to obey, and thou hast ordained teaching that -we may understand, and thereby give allegiance to thy law and fullness to our life. We thank thee for thy servants, great law-givers, great statesmen, who hare also been great teachers. We thank thee for the Bible, thy book of law, which is also our book of life. We thank thee for homes and schools, the guardians and the guides of youth: may the -cords of thy lau ' be blazoned upon their walls ami -written upon their gates. We thank thee that thou hast smiled with favor upon this school. We rejoice that thou hast crowned its early day of promise with the latter day of fulfilment, -which is also a day of greater promise. We thank thee for a -wealth of memories. We cherish the associa- tions of busy, fruitful years. Like flozvers in a garden, paintings in a gallery, melodies in a symphony, are those familiar names, those gladsome faces, those cheering z ' oices. Our hearts are strengthened by zchat these names and faces and voices have meant to a troubled zvorld. We look forward -with hope. Our school is as a city on a hill — may it continue to be a beacon light. May each sunrise continue to give rigor, and each sunset renewed promise, the one with its burnished silver, the other -with its flaming gold. Lift up our hearts and souls as -we look toward the mountains. Continue to sweeten our toil -with the roice of song: harmonise and coordinate our diversities -with the spirit of sympathy and good fel- lowship. Enrich the ardor of youth with the -wisdom of experience and temper it with patience and fortitude. The past is our heritage — give us the future as opportunity: and give us good success. For thy name ' s sake. Amen. 25Q2Q7

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r 939 SCHOOLMA ' AM Published by the Students of MADISON COLLEGE Harrisonburg, Virginia Volume XXX

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This Volume Is Palliated to ADELE RAYMOND BLACKWELL GRACIOUS HOSTESS AFFABLE FRIEND UNDERSTANDING TEACHER