West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Ott ' Jcme ficU from the Seven years have moved down the river of Time flowing by the Wesleyon campus since I arrived here in the Fail of 1941 and wore a Freshman dinky. Looking about me now, and back through my memories of those years, I have the feeling Change was kept constantly busy. Europe, during my Freshman year, was already at war, but the force of Hitler ' s power had not then reached America to any great extent. Much less had the thoughts of vio- lence entered my mind — other, that is, than the violence of smashing through the line of on opposing football team. Then, like all of you, I too was finally shocked, by the attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, into action toward the defense of our country. I won ' t dwell on those war years as familiar as all of us still are with those trying times. On returning to Wesleyon in the fall of 1946, the campus seemed to me then to have resisted Time and Change — I found it com- fortingly familiar. There were quite a few familiar faces, both of the faculty and the student body. But, after being back a while, I soon began to realize Wesleyon had wel- comed Change and was thus better able to withstand the stresses of those war years. By that, I mean the spirit of West Virginia Wesleyon had been kept afloat and was slowly but surely regaining the old buoyancy of pre-war days. Gradually, more and more former students returned to the campus, and the Freshman Class more than doubled since the days when I was a Freshman. With the student body getting larger, greater was the spirit of unity both in study and in ploy. In keeping with the needs of this greater student population a new Community Council Constitution was adopted this year. This move, demanded by Time and Change, has given the students an increased opportunity to participate more widely in governing their school activities and organizations. I believe this one organization, alone, has done much to unify the college, and I ' m sure it will continue to do so in the years to follow. In moving beyond Wesleyon this year, the Senior Class places its trust in the classes we leave here, and the yet unborn classes of the future, to maintain a high interest in the Community Council. Their ideals, thereby united, will be found to be the stepping stones to the ideals required for the high level of competence in citizenship expected of college graduates. As we, the class of 1948, go our various roads striving to reach the goals of our lives, we will always remember and cherish in our hearts our years at West Virginia Wesleyon. In passing on the honor of my office of the Presidency of the Community Council, I want to thank each of you for the splendid coopera- tion you have given the Council this year. Charles William Pugh

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William John Scarborough ' (Mte % te from the ' Pte ideat ( t Ue The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Not only does this volume mark another year in the history of Wesleyan, recording as it does the outstanding events of the past twelve months, but it focuses thought on values. For what shall it profiteth a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. You, who ore now leaving Wesleyan as graduates look bock upon your time in its halls as precious memories. As you go remem- ber to take time for laughter, for objective thought, for clear-headed study, to walk in the woods and to remember the values of life as the days go by. We charge you to look back on college days with the realization that only those values which survive are worth giving time to. Therefore, lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moss nor rock doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through or steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The editors of the Murmurtnontis for 1948, in choosing the theme of Time and Change, have called our attention to a significant aspect of modern life. We busy ourselves with endless details of time- consuming trivia and miss the majesty of life as it flows ceaselessly by. In the deeper sense life, itself, has meaning only in terms of the objectives for the investment of Time. Wesleyan has sought in the past, and will continue to seek in the future, to give foundation to the meaning of life as invest- ment in service to others — in the name of Christ — OS the consecration of life lived to the full.

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The 1947-48 schoolyear has been carried swiftly along on the restless breast of the tide of time flowing steadily in the wide and deep expanse between the unmeasured banks of the eternal river. Seeking to capture in these pages some notion of the subtlety of Change, the itinerant artist of the pulsing time-river, we have tried to catch his brush at work, touching the year drifting on the moving stream of time and coloring it with the confusion, the inertio, the pain, the pleasure, the passion, and the glowing hope of our youth. The year, wearied with its minute-measured journeying, slides silently into the great mouth of the mighty river through which it will at the last be swept into the forever- gone swell of the lost, limitless sea of remembrances beyond. Given a moment to sum the total of those images of the year scattered two-dimensional ly through these pages, we see clearly the tidemorks of change left on the campus by the alternating ebbs and floods of the restless river of eternal time. We are mode instantly aware of the loss of faces grown familiar to us in our doily contact with the administration, the faculty, the staff, and — more rarely — with the College Trustees. But in remembering these departed ones we see an array of new faces, many of them, and we see Change has compensated for his taking away of old friends by adding to our happy measure of new friendships.