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

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The 1948 Murmurmontis WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE BUCKHANNON, WEST VIRGINIA THOMAS B. CROSSAN, JR Editor-in-Chief ia.jvr

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. . , there IS time there. (Have we not heard strange time, dark time, strange tragic time there? Have we not heard dark time, strange time, the dark, the moving tide of time as it flows down the river?) And in the night time, in the dark there, in all the sleeping silence of the earth have we not heard the river, the rich immortal river, full of its strange dark time? Full with the pulse of time it flows there, full with the pulse of all men living, sleeping, dying, waking it will flow there, full with the billion dark and socret moments of our lives it flows there. Filled with all the hope, the modness and the passion of our youth it flows there, in the daytime, in the dark, drinking with ceaseless glut the land, mining into its tides the earth as it mines the hours and moments of our life into its tides, moving against the sides of ships, foaming about piled crustings of old wharves, sliding like time and silence by the vast cliff of the city, girdling the stony isle of life with moving waters — thick with the wastes of earth, dark with our stains, and heavied with our dumpings, rich, rank, beautiful, and unending as all life, all living, as it flows by us, by us, by us, to the sea! From OF TIME AND THE RIVER, by Thomas Wolfe. Re- printed by permission of Charles Scribner ' s Sons, publishers.

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Facing our task of depicting the passing schoolyear in these pages, the Staff of the 1948 MURMURMONTIS was acutely aware of the words time and change whi ch are the lifeblood of any college annual. Our thinking about time and change took a philosophical turn and we met one Heroclitus, sage of the Ephesus of ancient Greece. His imperturbable wisdom, reducing time and chonge to the delightful metaphor, you can ' t step into the same river twice, started us thinking of time and change in terms of moving water. This trend of thought led us directly to the enormously modern Thomas Wolfe and his expansive novel. Of Time and The River, in which he likened the ceaseless-change character of time to the eternal flow of a mighty river. We knew instantly we ' d found the theme material for which we ' d been searching when we came on those time-river paragraphs of Wolfe ' s which appear opposite the title page of this ' 48 MURMURMONTIS. Wolfe ' s time-river analogy inspired the cover design in which we have sought to portray, in terms of the theme and in modern symbolic forms, the essence of time and change at Wesleyan during the 1947-1948 schoolyear. The mouth in the distant mountain range was included for good measure to symbolize the meaning of MURMURMONTIS — namely, the voice of the mountains. 0a ttefiU . . . Foreword 5 College Personnel 15 Classes 25 Sports 61 Organizations 87 Highlights 125 Student Roster 137