Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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CHARLES SMITH A.M., D.D., LL.D, Presicienzf A.B., Roanoke College, 1901, D.D., 19155 A.M., Princeton University 1902, Graduate Mount Airy Theo- logical Seminary, 19053 LL.D., Gettysburg College, 1930. To the men whose names and likenesses appear on the pages of this book, I offer greetings. To you it may appear to be only another episode .in a college year. Rather it is the setting down for posterity of a record of another student generation. Today you are in the care of an institution whose imprimatur you shall bear through life, tomorrow you yourselves will be the builders of other institutions in the rapidly changing pattern of a social order whose kaleidoscopic colors are both the charm and the despair of us all. For the worthy meeting of the problems which you must face in these great days, your college would prepare you mightily. Vision with which to see clearly, mind with which to think exactly, strength of body and of will with which to act triumphantlyg character with which to give allegiance always to the noblest virtues-these are the strands from which Roanoke would weave the fabric of personality that shall be you, the man. More largely than we now realize, the college and its students are inter-dependent. Roanoke gives to you its best or you fail, you give to Roanoke your best or the college fails. There can be no cleavage between the spirit of the college and the spirit of the students. Each makes the other and together they go out on a great adventure of achievement. Thus I salute you as you write the record of bright college days. Q President.

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THE FACULTY Left to right: Dr. Dawson, Dr. Schultz Professor Lindsey, and Dr. Brown.

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CHARLES R. BROWN A.M., Php. Dean of the College ' ', g Y Y ' Princeton University, 19115 and Ph D. 1913. Seniors of 1937, it is a genuine pleasure to offer you a parting word of advice and admonition as you approach your graduation day. When your College Commencement has become history, you will enter a world just as full of charms as the one you are leaving behind, and you must quickly adjust your lives to its charms or they will conquer you by tossing you upon, their surges until you cry out for a more peaceful and obliging world. But, good or bad, life must be spent in this world, duties must be discharged here, and I should be unfaithful if I did not bid you go forth and f1ght for a place of usefulness and a measure of happiness in the new world, no matter how strong the current may be against you. Therefore, if you will remember always to keep your ears tuned to harmony, your eyes educated to the perception of beauty and grace, your minds cultivated and stored with useful and various knowledge, your bodies well developed and trained to healthy experience and agreeable recreations, your hearts instructed in the precepts of duty and religion and trained to love and follow all that is good and genuine and exalted, together with the active and cheerful performance of every duty, the assumption and discharge of every proper relation in life, you will realize the purest and most perfect happiness which the earth affords. Dean. AB Roanoke Colle c 1910- AM.