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

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FOREWORD The two hands ... a moment apart . . . one-waiting man . . . one — the God of the Universe . . . between their grasp ... a spark . . . life. Man waits . . . ordinary clay . . . divine life about to invade it. The Herculean hand of man . . . limp . . . waiting. The touch! And it is the dawn of humanity . . . the dawn of desire . . . knowledge . . . understanding . . . power physical . . . power thoughtful . . . movement . . . love. The search begins . . . the pain encountered . . . overwhelms, strengthens, remolds the hand. The hand stretches . . . the tendons tighten. The fist . . . pounding for life . . . pounding at life . . . pounding the barrier that obscures meaning. Man ' s hand. The outward symbol of his being ... his creativity . . . his power . . . his passion. Hands of men . . . moving through history . . . down the endless ages past Families . . . villages together . city-states peace, living in war . . . conquering hand ' s power infinitely magnified . . . joined to search for the good life. . nations . . . empires. Living in . expanding . . . stretching . . . the collectively striving . . . toiling . . . continually searching st.iined by blood, sweat, tears ... no stoi)ping together. The twentieth century, the 60 ' s . . . the nionients. days, weeks, months zoom- ing . . . life flying with them. Hands reach out . . . milking experience from time . . . tearing pieces from the passing moments. Hands busv . . . arranging, sorting, matching the pieces . . . Discovering a puzzle — why life? The end. the purpose . . . what are they? — No answer . . . pieces never fit . . . ]jieces missing . . . keep searching. Searching hands in the world of learning. Wesleyan hands . . . old and young . . . students, professors, and administrator. Education . . . ihe fundamentals, the classics, the unique . . . ! The old hands . . . stern . . . firm . . . guiding . . . inspiring . . . cor- recting . . . urging . . . demanding the difficult, expecting the best ... at times rewarded ... at times ignored. Discouraged . . . delighted . . . bear- ing the trivialities . . . tolerating exams, records, grades. The open hand . . . the teacher of the young, the unlearned, the confused . . . remembering the confused with infinite patience . . . he.iring questions . . . asking question . . . pointing the direction. Living for the moment of the spark when two hands will again clasp each other . . . joining the seeker in the search. The young hands . . . eager . . . busy . . . listless . . . lazv . . . moti ated . . . glimpsing truth. Plato in the Ad Building . . . Bach and Van Gogh in Loar Hall . . . Statistics at 8:00 . . . Econ. at 10:00 . . . Chapel in a g m suit and dirty hands — no time to change. Busy . . . going, moving. Hands . . . leafing through notes in an eleventh hour cram . . . turning the combination lock . . . removing the much-hoped-for letter . . . encouragement, scolding, sweet-nothings, money — these the young hands receive. Hands . . . typing, ap- plauding, joined in a basketball huddle, slamming the floor in a cheer, slinging hash in a Saga kitchen, pushing a pencil til .3:00 a.m. These and more ... all a part of the search. Young hands and old hands . . . reaching up for Ihe spark, the knowledge, the answers . . . groping in darkness . . . basking in the light of new discoveries . . . loving to stretch. Rungs on a ladder . . . disappointments and failures . . . moments of achieve- ments . . . to all things we hold fast. Turn the pages . . . iew the hands of Wesleyan !