Amarillo College - Palo Duro Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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Message to the Students I count it a privilege to address a few thoughts to you in this issue of the PALO DURO. At the year’s end, the eighteenth in the history of the college, may I congratulate you for the successes you have thus far attained. I should also like to express my appreciation to the entire student group for its wholesome attitude and cooperation in the many problems the year has presented. The largest enrollment in the history of the college has taxed our human and physical resources to the limit. Some conditions have not been ideal, but you have shown patience and sportsmanship just the same. We have been able to add to our physical plant six classrooms containing thirty- four hundred square feet of floor space and a student union building containing twenty-six hundred square feet. Our faculty has increased to forty persons. The student body has averaged around 925 students in the day and evening classes. Yes, we have grown in the physical aspect. We trust we have grown in the intellectual and spiritual phases of life as well. A well-trained and dedicated faculty and an interested and happy student body should see excellent results in these latter areas. Our work in the college is facilitated by a generous and interested College Board supported by an enlightened and interested public. With this support we can go forward to still greater achievements. However, students and faculty cannot play the game of life successfully unless they know where the goal posts are. To know the goals of life is to give definiteness and meaning to all of our activities in the college program. The only limits of our realization of a greater tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us meet with confidence, courage and intelligence our problems which currently arise. This done, then the college, as well as the individuals who make it up, need have no fear for the future.