Salve Regina University - Regina Maris Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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DEDICATION □ FACULTY D ACBlIlTIES UNDERCLASSES □ D SENIOR MOMENTS GRADUATES □ □ EPILOGUE 1966 T EGINA CLARIS SALVE REGINA COLLEGE NEWPORT • RHODE ISLAND cAll Experience s

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Prologue All experience is an arch . . . a span in terms of time. It is the touchstone of all our memories, the wonder and the joy of life. It is, also, the broken arcs of splintered dreams. The high moments we remember well; other moments have faded, lost like flickering shadows on the wall, or hidden in the comers of our minds. Four years of college life are noiv over, yet for us it has been one of the more wonderful experiences we shall ever have. In its own way it may be likened to life itself, a birth, a death; a beginning, a climax, and an end. It is also a seeking and a be- coming, an entrance into tradition, an emergence into new and deeper realities. What has college really been but a series of experi- ences, of conversations ivith our teachers, our fel- low students, and ourselves. There have been mo- ments when ideas flamed into words and language arched the distance between minds. Yes, it was the conversations in the late afternoons, in the eve- nings; over coffee, very late at night; in the class- room, or along the way. It was the casual word. the serious discussion, the precise argument; the flash of illumination, the moment of awareness, the new perspective — all this was college. More deeply still the colloquies that have been Mass and Com- munion have patterned the give and take — the sacrifice and the celebration, the fulfillment and the consummation. Then there was the prelude and the anticipation, the gradual unfolding and the growing toward wisdom. The quiet time, the bright interlude, the pressured hours of study measured the strength and resiliency of the arch in these college years. So it is in this REGINA MARIS of 1966 we stay the flux of time and in this story and chronicle we preserve this profile of our experience, this chronology of ourselves and of our college. Thus, this is a simple book, but a book alive ivith the people, the traditions, and the occasions we cherish. It is more than the printed page, more than a pic- ture book to us. It is the movement, the progres- sion; the grace, and the culture which is Salve Regina.