Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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foreword . . . the pages of the 1938 alpha ... an effort to portray both editorially and pictorially the student life of the college . . . the result of an urge com- mon to all men to leave behind some fragment of personality ... a hope to preserve for the future the memories of our under-graduate experience . . . so vivid now ... so quickly dimmed ... so easily crowded out . . . . . . there is something about one ' s own . ... deserving or not . . . that is always dear . . . thus it is with the past four years . . . sharing the same joys and unhappinesses . . . the fellowship of sports . . . the friend- ship of instructors . . . the congeniality of classes . . . we have come to hold them dear . . . . . . this yearbook, too, is our own . . . into it we have set that which is worth remembering . . . but the mere act of recording characterizes it as an ending . . . of a four-year dash toward the festival of life . . . which we may not enter . . . until the salt and savor of the character, the taste, and the wit of each of us come into their own . . . when we can live with people and yet love them . . . fight with them and for them . . . share our experiences with them and build our philosophies independently . . . break down barriers and move on into usefulness . . . page fourteen

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Ill W l m -. senior class notes president vice-president treasurer secretary george Johnston florence kuchmeister edward koskela June sherman . . . the last year . . . and the best . . . having our ups . . . and our downs . . . our agreeings . . . and our differences . . . but stronger . . . and more tolerant . . . for the experience . . . breaking down barriers . . . and building up friendships . . . learning to work more for the class . . . and the college . . . and less for the individual . . . . . . the senior social . . . the wholesome cutups of the country . . . square dances . . . and John paul jones . . . pigtails and overalls . . . rubes and their countrified gal-friends . . . mutual loss of inhibitions . . . by faculty and students . . . page sixteen