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

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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

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t94E We have been privileged to dedicate the 1948 MURMUR- MONTIS to two of West Virginia Wesleyan ' s greatest benefactors, Mary Lowe West and the late Calvin A. West. Time ' s tides in their ceaseless ebb and flow have carried the College far from its early life and death struggles with the material aspects of existence. To the many distinguished administrators who have labored faithfully in its service belongs our gratitude for much of the success our Alma Mater has enjoyed. We are equally indebted to a small group of philanthropists whose interests in higher education hove centered on West Virginia Wesleyan. Their benefactions, together with the invaluable service rendered the College by capable administrators, have immeasurably ennobled the vision of Wesleyan ' s founders. It well behooves those of us in the College today, then, to know our benefactors — philanthropic and administrative — and, knowing them, give eternal thanks for their united interest in our beloved Alma Mater. Calvin Alexander West 1871-1936 -5