Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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THE COMPANY OF MEMORIES Our choice of memories reveals our secret nature. For out of the multitude of the images and echoes of our experiences we select a certain few to remem- her and to cherish — the picture of a happy event, a flower whose fragrance lives on despite its dried petals between the pages of a book, the recollection of a face, of the pressure of a hand, the colors of a sunset, the morning light on mountain snows. The friends may be gone, the scenes far away, the com- panionships beyond recapture — but in moments of recall they all come back to life again. Time ' s chains fall away and we mingle freely again with those who once filled the rooms of fellowship with gay laughter and youthful mo ement. Twice blest are the wholesome days — the joys of the day and the delight of memory. The two are inseparable, for the memory creates anew the day no less that the day created the memory. As the college graduate moves from the campus onto the busy streets of the city, into the fellowshi])s of home and friends, into the days that carry him farther away from youth and school, the memories of Augustana will reappear on the screen of his mind, the echoes of voices heard here will resound in other environments. What these may be depends on what we choose to admit. They will be the index of what we made of campus days and of what campus experiences made us to be. We are known by the company of memories we keep. V dm u y tyL,y -- -YY7

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