Southern Arkansas University - Mulerider Yearbook (Magnolia, AR)

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QQEEII NQS FVQQM It-IE DQAN E. E. GRAHAM In fifteen years of continuous connection with an educational institution, one becomes attached to it. It has been my usual privilege to teach the same students throughout their school career here, from freshman high school classes through sophomore college courses. Observation of progress made by students through this comparatively long time under the same teacher has strengthened my already strong faith in education and in young people. It has made me realize that there is hope for improvement through environment for what sometimes ap- pears almost hopeless. As a whole, my experience with A. 8 M. College students has inspired in me an abiding faith in the future. It is with pardonable pride, I trust, and due humility that I may claim to have gained the confidence and affection of some students throughout these years. These students will never know how much their confidence and affection has served to strengthen and uphold me in my daily life, and to make my stay here very much wvorth while to me. The years have been short, the opportunity great and disappointments inconsequential. The debt I owe to the fate that has given me this opportunity is much greater than I shall ever be able to pay. -E. E. GRAHAM.

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QQQQTI N Q3 mow DVQESIDENT fi I3 0 TME CHAS. A. OVERSTREET As each of the last two school years has come to a close, live felt that each had been more trying and difficult on the faculty and student body than the one before, but at the close of the school year 1934-'35, I feel that We have had one of the most successful terms in the years of my service to A. 81 M. College. I want to express my appreciation to the members of the faculty and student body for their contributions toward accomplishing our goal. lt is my hope that we, as the administration of this school, have instilled in the heart' and mind of each student some idea or quality which, in his future life, will help him to realize a fuller happiness and enjoymentg a more con- scious goal of service to the community and stateg and a realization of the importance of experience and education. CHAS. A. OVERSTREET.

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QQEEU NGS FVQCDM TME operinicendenic J. M. PEACE To those who have helped to make the roster of high school honor-roll students the largest in point of percentage this year that it has ever been, as well as to the more careless ones of the group, may I express our sincere appreciation of your cooperation in our common task. Youth has never confronted more serious problems than it faces to-day in the calls coming from the demands of an ever-changing society in which every individual has the inherent right to grow and become all that is humanly pos- sible for him. The state and 'those back home have made sacrifices that you might be the better prepared for truly effective citizenship in this changing dc- lYl'0CI'HCy. The character of service you render society through a right attitude toward intellectual participation in and contribution to the sum total of the wel- fare of that society will be the measure of your recompense to the state for its share in making possible for you a richer life. It is your responsibility to justify the wisdom of every investment made in you in money, in encouragement given, in hope, and in fond expectation. -J. M. PEACE.