Baldwin School - Prism Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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All Aboard, '33 With this as our title, the power of suggestion rather overwhelms us. We imagine ourselves with our passports in hand, in the form of diplomas, allowing us to embark on our own particular journeys: where to, we do not just know, but still we are decidedly conscious of an incentive towards shoving off. The personal experiences which we have undergone to acquire our passports are significant to each one of us. Yet in spite of the varied interests and personalities which have gone to constitute us a whole class, we have worked together with a surprising excess of harmony and pleasure. Now we are leaving in all directions. Ah, there's the rub. However, we have the tremendous satisfaction of knowing that we have lived up to our class song, so proud to have been a sharer in its great congeniality. Our trains are waiting, and our passports obtained. Who our conductors will be is up to ourselves. Whether the Wanderlust catches us up. or we board a tedious local rests in our hands alone. We have all been taught to discriminate in the years that we have been here. Now is the opportunity for us to apply our hard-earned knowledge. All Aboard—‘33.

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Message Of the class of 1933 I should like to ask, Has the year of hard times been happier than some of the earlier years of good times? I confidently believe that many could answer Yes ; that others who might hesitate to make an affirmative answer to the word happier would say, Assuredly more interesting. My parting wish then to the class of 1933 is one of success, first in defining, second in solving, the new problems of the world today— intellectual power that can define them, courage and independence that will solve them in a spirit of magnanimity that will contribute to the new world which we must have. Perhaps you know better than any group of young Americans has known for fifty years, that you must earn your right to enjoy and to use America. Perhaps your adult lives will be lived fully in the sunlight of a world-wide friendliness with a basic philosophy that the justification of one's life lies in the contribution that one is able to make to other lives. Your school will follow you with confidence and affection as you move on to meet these major challenges. Elizabeth Forrest Johnson.