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

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V J. SCARBOROUGH, President M GO TO PROVE MY SOUL I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive : what time, what circuit first, 1 ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Robert Browning: Paracelsus In the days of ancient Greece when hberal arts education was just beginning, the pedagogue was the slave who took the young scholar by the hand and led him to school. Ever since the days of our earliest education, we have found those who act to guide and assist us in our educational training and preparation. In a real sense, our professors at West Virginia Wesleyan have provided the last guidance which education can give to those who graduate in 1955. From this point on their educational pathways will be made by their own efforts. If, as we hope it is true, liberal arts education is a lifelong process, those who graduate will continue to walk in discovery of truth and understanding of the world about them. To those who are leaving Wesleyan we say hail and farewell. May your journey be prosperous and successful. Remember the pedagogues who tauglji you to walk in the way of learning.

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PRESENTING The 1955 MURMURMONTIS, West Virginia Wesleyan Col- lege ' s pictorial and written history of the collegiate year 1954-1955, sponsored by the Publications Committee of the Community Council, whose members are: GREGORY LESSIG DR. MARY C. BRILL WALTER COLLINS PROF. E. KIDD LOCKARD BARBARA MAXWELL PROF. JUANITA PARKER MR. JAMES STANSBURY DAVID TRADER DEAN NELLIE WILSON PRESENTINq ALSO... THE 1955 MURMURMONTIS STAFF EDITOR-IX-CHIEF EVELYN CUCINOTTA BUSINESS MANAGER PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR DAVID CUCINOTTA RICHARD E ANS Ani ' ERTISING ART EDITOR BOBBY JO WUERZ KDML:ND BUTLER. JR. LITERARY EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR MARILYN ' WICKERHAM GREGORY LESSIG ADllSOR MRS. CAROL ANN MARSHALL 41 042.

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A. A. SCHOOLCRAFT. Pcan PATHWAYS of WE5LEYAN The pathways of Wesleyan are as nu- merous as the ever-increasing host of students who come hither, over hill and dale, over land and sea, and over the long stretches of the years; who live, and labor, and learn together, on this campus beau- tiful, and wholesome, and enlightening; and then go hence to domiciles, and duties, and destinies as different as their points of origin, and as they themselves. Of these converging, and intertwining, and diverging pathways, made, and in the making, and to be made, many have seg- ments in common, while each has parts utterly unique. In this brief sketch, it will be possible to do no more than highlight some of the common-to-many segments, and spotlight some of the unique parts. The pathways that converge on Wes- leyan bridge a period (1890-1955) unpar- alleled in all time for perpetual, penetrat- ing, and piofound change. They come from the Victorian era, in which life was un- complicated by autos, movies, aeroplanes, radios, television, and Communism, and from the ambiguous Atomic age, that may either usher in the true Golden Age of unprecedented peace and prosperity and progress, or sink humanity with all its achievements and aspirations, all its pos- sibilities and promi.se, in eternal extinction — exceeding in a matter of minutes the cumulative folly, and tragedy, and carnage of the centuries. Geographically, the pathways of Wes- leyan come from the ends of the earth — from primitive South Sea islands, and from pastoral West Virginia hills; from Greece, where ancient civilization reached its Continued on page 117