Berea College - Chimes Yearbook (Berea, KY)

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i ontemplau Soon the days are approaching when we can only remember, and the things that are important to us now will have become lost in a medley of other things. Anyway, this is what our predecessors have told us. They say, too, that the year we started as freshmen in college was the beginning of the happiest period in our lives. And we begin to think. What, out of the debris of four years, will we remember, and why? Will we remember most the things that we have complained about? Or will our complaints eventually seem insignificant too? Ife we are to consider ourselves as a typical class, will we not re- member the things that those classes before us have remembered? If so, then from graduation day on will be like looking backward through a book, with each preceding page improving on the next. But we do not believe in that; we know that Berea alumni always feel something else, and we feel it too. We have learned here, and we have acquired rich friendships, but we can never cease learning or developing new friendships. We have had good times here, surely, but not as good as we will have. The Chimes this time seeks not to combine mere nostalgic recollections, but rather to record constructively some of the ex- periences we have shared together in the four years (more or less) that we have walked these hallowed halls and trod this sacred ground. We do not consider this a senior book exclusively; it is published for the student body in common, in view of our common contacts at Berea College. It is not a final statement, either. We like to think that our class, entered in ' 49 and graduating in ' 53, does not automatically throw off all the shackles of its alma mater the moment it leaves the campus. Rather, we hope that we can leave much of ourselves here, since already we realize that the spirit of Berea will never leave us. In that way, it seems that all of the Berea family must become constantly bigger and better with the years, through past, present, and future Berea associations. And so this book is not the story of the present senior class alone. It is the story of every person who has thrilled in the joy of a task well done; who has willingly cast off some of the old for a better new; who has awakened to the cry of Help in a world that has grown impatient waiting for some- thing good.

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SENIORS SENIOR OFFICERS Mary Jane Leatherwood David Kite Robert Glenn, (Pres. Donna Moore Bishop Spongier. Not shown, Ralph Wade