MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Forty-nine years ago the twentieth century began. For at least twenty of the more recent of those years, you and I have been getting acquainted with the place a famous man called a stage. Often, we ' ve missed cues. Sometimes, we ' ve experienced the delight of having an audience completely with us. We ' ve been laughing or sad on that stage according to the way the script was written. Now, as the middle of the century gets closer and a lot of us dust off our scrapbooks of clippings and revie w past performances, probably the pages that will stand out the clearest will be those entitled MacMurray. Those best years of anyone ' s life, school days, never grow dim on the printed page or in a person ' s memory. These days at Mac, whether you ' re leaving them or just beginning to know them, have been the times when the most cues have been missed and when, also, our press notices have been the best. We ' ve grown up a little more and have gained knowledge about the greatest play of all called Life. Our apprenticeship of child- hood is just about over. The talent with which we continue to act in the greatest play of all will largely be due to the finishing touches put to our technique by our associations with the people and places met again in the next one hundred forty pages. MacMurray has been for us a Little Theatre. The members of its cast have been our professors and our classmates. The stage setting has been our campus with its beautiful buildings. The play has been our participation in the societies, the clubs, the organizations, in all of the curriculor and extra-curricular activities that gave us so many headaches and so much fun at the same time. After the play, the parties, the spreads, and the gab sessions that began backstage behind the scenes have been etched deeply in our memories. As the catalogue of the MacMurray year of 1949, this ILLIWOCO is your program to a presentation of nine months of work and play at MacMurray during those days when knowledge, faith, and service grew from words in a motto to a poised and assured way of life and renewed faith in the Almighty, the greatest playwright of all.