Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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BARRY, ROSEMARY BEALL, DAVID BOSCHETTI. JOSEPH CLARKE, ALLEN COTY, KATHLEEN CUTLER, STUART DECENSI, PETER DOLGOFF, ALFRED DUNN, HAROLD, IR, ELLIS, FREDERICK GLAVIN. JAMES GLEASON, EDWARD GOLBERG, PAUL GOMEAU, HAROLD HOUGHTON, CARL JENKINS, CAROL LEE, CLARENCE ME! REMEMBER 23 LUCEY, JOHN MacDONALD, RALPH MacHENRY, ROBERT MCCOLGAN, MARY MELLODY, LAWRENCE MURRAY, RUTH NASSIF, EDWARD OLSZOWY, EDWARD O'NEIL, GRACE OTTMAN, ROGER PAWLOWSKI, CHESTER PORROVECHIO, LO1s '-RIORDAN, THEREsA-- RYAN, JOHN, JR, SOKOLOSKY, EDWARD UCHMAN, -CASIMER WHALEN, EDWARD

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EDWIN WOOD I too am full of wonder. M.A.A. 1.2. 3.4 Intramural Basketball I, 2, 3, 4 Intramural Baseball I, 2, 3, 4 Private Worlds NORMAN DuPUIS On what adventure bound. Great Books Seminar I, 2 Organizer M,A,A, 1,2, 3,4 Student Council 2 Secretary 2 'PL AT Current Events Club I 2 A Rage To Live X DARRYL A. WIEJACZKA When snength shall fail me, then Lead thou and shape the world I'll cease to strive. ,-5 s Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4 M,A,A, 1, 2, 3,4 K I 1 ' Y I ' . Nm! 1 ,ff uv KB ' Jai nv f X VV G ' -if g Q 4 LI' -I ' U I . .ill XX' .. , The Beginning of Wisdom A World I Never Made 22

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CAM Mdfor From the cave of ignorance we have travelled upward toward the light, our eyes were dazzled. Now we gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven . . . and when we remember our old habitation and the wisdom of the den and our fellow-prisoners, we felicitate ourselves on the changes, and pity them, Plato booking back over the terraces . . Can it be that these men and women who are to don their caps and gowns today are the same group who in September, 1947, entered the doors of S,T, C, 2 The fusion which has grad- ually been taking place from that day to this incorporates a multi-faceted set of experiences, I deny that reminiscence is for old age alone, Let us together peer back over the road we have traveled, making a mental addition here and there for those personal enrichments which came our way, From that first day on which we set out on our college career, through the four some- times gay, sometimes serious years, we have left the impression, wherever we have brushed, of skepticism and disturbance, with the bestowal of degrees on our commencement day, we de- part as the last of the conquerors -- the group which even in its eventual obscurity in the field of the world will be remembered here, We have been stubborn, but dynamicg we have been naive, but honest, We shall look back on those who helped us along the road with a unani- mous vote of thanks for their patience and understanding, for their revealing to us the light of truth that we may seek after it always, As freshmen, we were the usual disconcerting melee of faces, but as we grew in knowl- edge of each other through such ftuictions as our well-remembered reception, the exhausting trek to Greylock, the exposure to a new type of teaching and new subject matter, which con- fused us all alike and together, our individualism emerged and was destined to live a long life, That first year was quickly put behind us, Groups and fond couples had about the campus, and reluctant adieus were said until the summer recess should be over, 24