Bloomsburg University - Obiter Yearbook (Bloomsburg, PA)

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To THE Class of 1948: Attendance at college not onl) ' icMilts in the formation of man ' lasting friendships, but also the concomitant responsibilities. One of these, not too often considered, is the responsibility of the graduate toward the institution and its place in the realm of educa- tion. Bloomsburg, as you know, has attained an esteemed position in the field of higher education through the loyalty and vitality of its several generations of students and faculties. The past, therefore, challenges the present and the future. We hope that you and your generation will accept this challenge by assisting your Alma Mater in its recruitment of worthy candidates for the teaching profession. Sincerely yours. Thomas P. North, Diiii! of Iiii nirtioii. 29

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Students It is no t long since you As Freshman came up College Hill To work and play where nearby the Susquehanna tlows Since time was old and things were still. Like you, others saw beauty with each season pass. Colors — green in summer everywhere Then brown leaves fall and white snow drifting down Until only pine and hemlock were not bare. Year after year new students came and went Until you, too, were here in this long file But soon you will go and others come Who in their turn will only stay awhile. But, in a way. you do not go from here. For every student leaves something here behind. Something that lingers after they are gone Something that lingers on in every mind They studied once just where you studied now. On these same chairs they sat with worried brow. They found it hard to work the problems right The same old problems you worked last night. And so you go, but still you stay behind For something that you left here will be i urs To make us think of you, to hope you ' ll find Long years of usefulness and happy luiurs.

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Do you remember the kaleidoscope you had for a toy? It was fascinating to shake the bits of colored glass in the tube and watch the shifting patterns. The college year is like that. In the fall the pattern has much green — grass and trees and freshmen. This changes to the bright autumn colors. Maroon and gold indicates the football season. The soft, dull Novem- ber shades shift to the merry colored lights of Christmas and the white snow. Midwin- ter shows bright-hued sportswear and the brilliance of dancewear. Spring ' s pattern of blue sky and green growth shifts finally to the dignity of the Seniors black and white academic costume. Keep all of this play of color in your mind ' s memory book of BSTC to be re- called wi th happiness and perhaps a bit of wistfuiness. Dr. Kehr, Dciii! of Women. The Deans To Bi-OOMSBURc Men and Women: An old couplet, one born of an ISth century revolution and now used to apply to a 20th century academic revolution, is recalled by the trend of education today: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven. It seems to me that those of us who have reached, or are reaching towards the much-discussed milestone of 40 are beginning to realize that life does not begin as we grow older, it just continues. We can be happy over the fact that we are still alive and can see some- thing of this academic revolution that will occupy decisively the next five or ten years. Those of you who are just coming into the teaching profession now with the best years of your life ahead will have a growing and decisive influence on the direction that education takes, and to you as you gather strength in that undertaking, all the luck in the world. John A. Hoch, Dean of Men. 30