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

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CAP AND GOWN DAY SPEECH The members of the graduating class extend their heart-felt thanks to you, the junior class, for the honor you have accorded us this day. We shall always remember this day as a significant link in a life-long chain of educative ex- periencesg a link welding the academic past to the pedagogical future. For some of us, this chain will be extended in a continuous series of applications of those ideals, methods and principles of free thought and free expression which we have learned and excercised here. These things are not only an integral part of our teaching, but lie among the foundation stones of democracy, So, as teachers, our duty is clear. We must establish these democratic principles in the thinking of those learners to whom we have dedicated our lives. Only by remembering this can we insure that each link in our chain of experience is as strong as those which preceed it. At this college we have made friendships, made contacts, and have tried to demonstrate that spirit which makes for the successful, mature adult. These vestments we don today are emblematic of the wisdom, skills and values we have learned and adopted here, and remind us that this day is not the end of our learning, but merely the completion of a stage of development, demanding intro- duction to the next level, So with clear vision of our function in the world community, and backed by the courage of our convictions, we, the graduating class of I95I, by the very act of donning these scholarly robes, ac- cept our self -appointed task of helping to educate a troubled world. Franklin Y. Smith 26

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fad rag JUNIOR CLASS PRESIDENT John Ryan VICE -PRESIDENT Gloria Brown SECRETARY Arsene Davignon TREASURER Katherine Cariddi 28 4