Catawba College - Sayakini / Swastika Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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JJfl. HOWARD R. OMWAKE To the Editors of the Swastika: I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to express a word of gratitude to you who have worked so hard to reproduce in accurate record form the plans, the achievements, and the life of the large Catawba family of 1939-1940. Most of us are casual readers who will pick up this book, look at the pictures, take some account of the statistics, and lay it aside with never a thought of the long hours of planning, of pursuing athletic records, of compiling data of the numerous organizations, of getting photographs, learning prices, securing advertisements, and the countless other details that go into making a college annual. Let us all who read this book remember the labors of love that have gone into the making of it. The theme of this book is the theatre. Whether this theme was selected because at Catawba a large place is accorded to dramatics. I do not know; but, nevertheless, it is a fitting theme. A play is a minor of life; the characters of personalities involved, their habits, their ec- centricities are all faithfully portrayed. In a similar way. this book is a mirror of the life of students and faculty of Catawba College. In these pages we see ourselves as others see us. and we should be better men and women for the opportunity afforded to see ourselves as objects, not subjects. ith best wishes, Cordially Howard R. Omwake.