Bellarmine University - Lance Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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ee eee a —are Sees TO: My Friends, the Class of ’68 FROM: Fr. John T. Loftus, The Dean DATE: May 31, 1968 RE: With Neither Bang Nor Whimper So it ends, | said to myself in the closing Petia SPT aera een atta a7 a a decade and a half of being the dean for all the graduates Bellarmine has ever ‘diateleateons No choke. No quiver. No last hurrah. And no need to feign satisfaction nor to hide it. Proudly and Paes grey hairs could salute the shaggy locks of a new band of knights, ready to enter the lists of the world. Yearbooks are for memories. Printed today, their value will be found-in a year, a decade, a half century from now. You and your children’s children will thumb this volume and with.smirk, sigh, or grimace of pain recall the spring of 1968. What will seem important then as the indicia of the times! WEED Peace rallies? | Conscience and the draft? The senior prom? Pass—fail? The Student Senate? Comprehen- sives? The Children’s Crusade? The tragedies of Memphis and Los Angeles? The first job? CTR Time ivory mite miceluie- Mahalo are ele) Mm Rael 7 1 mex Coir oe) As the dean who watched and wondered, | suspect my favorite identification for your class will be found in the motion picture you enjoyed, The Graduate. | thought | saw all of you in one brief sequence. You may recall the proud father asking a pensive Ben what he hoped of the future. The reply was succinct and poignant. The graduate found a word for his anomie-inspired hope: different. If an old eye can still read the social road maps, your destiny is to make the future dif- | ferent. | do not know how or how well you will do so. In your college fade-out, you sat at — the back of the bus with a look of bemusement at what you have undertaken. When in later days, you return to this volume | shall hope you remember Ural watched with confidence your departure. From some eternal battlement, | AL ate! continue to dL eae with an expectant hope. erm ala November eleventh, | shall light a cigarette on the wrong end. Should rT Ls remember that symbol you can assay once more ated oh hh EA ha made dito bichon oe at we shall all know. |am quite confident Feri rr a on eee M74 i

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