SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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IN MEMO R I AM The desire for friendship is strong in every human heart. This, the highest earthly relationship, is at its best shif ting; for men are not wholly true, and time and change play their ceaseless part. But the memory of enjoyed companionship, once fully possessed, cannot Dorothy Langenstein die. Such a companionship was ours while Dorothy Langenstein and Hubert Spence were our classmates. This memory serves as a nourishing source of strength, once the first shock of surprise and bitter grief has been removed and we can sing the victor ' s song. We are so selfish about death, forgetting that it means only life, with all rest, peace, and joy. We are inclined to protest that it is unfair, that they were too young. When the work of two such admirable persons is left unfinished, our thoughts should broaden into a stately march of conquest for truth, justice, nobility, and honor. Our individual responsibility should grow to encircle theirs, that their ideals and goals may be realized in part through our effort. We should look beyond our- selves and our loss and be ever on the alert for chances to rise and march gloriously with our invisible guides. In resignation to bereavement, as one of the mis- fortunes in life, it is true that a fair face may be kept Hubert Spence to the world and to oneself by treasuring the happiest and gayest memories. These memories we hold are bright and pulsating with life; while the desire to duly r honor Dorothy and Hubert in words far exceeds our power.

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DEDICATION REPLY The students of Plattsburgh State Normal School wish to take this opportunity to thank the Staff of the Cardinal ' 41 for the motive which has prompted this dedication, and for the tremendous amount of labor and the high degree of efficiency which have been so capably combined to give us this brilliant record of the past by which we may guide the future. Perhaps the Staff had been so conscientiously striving from the beginning to make this publication one which would belong to the whole student body, that when the end came, it seemed only logical that Cardinal ' 41 be dedicated to the students in word as well as in deed. The Student Body feels that you have made the Cardinal this year their book. Wii.LSON Daily, President of the House of Delegates. 7

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How good, how good to close the weighty book. Leave sorting and dissecting, quit the school. Here quiet let me lie, content to look At waterbugs and tadpoles in the pool. Spring Saturdays were surely meant To be in drowsy dreaming spent. ague images of childhood pass Like shadows in the waterglass, And easily the fancy weaves Small sailboats out of floating leaves; The willow is a lady fair. The cloud, a wisp of angel hair. Oh, happy, happy days, so soon Become a half-remembered tune. An echo from the Pipe of Pan Played in some distant Lotus-land — But hold ! The miracle of Spring Depends upon the wand you bring. No pedagogue can quite explain A cloud as only unspillcd rain, Nor yet dispel the mystery That shrouds the new-green willow tree. Earth, water, air, and sky are magic still; Still secretly the waterbug skims by; And hark! Pan whistles from a near-by hill — Oh. let me hear him near until I die!