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.

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OUR DEANS DR. ALLEN K. FAUST. Dean of Men It is both easy and pleasant to felicitate the Class of 1941, on the publication of the Swastika. This production is youthful, but grown up; artistic, but true; jolly, but philosophic. The Juniors have completed the hard hill-climbing of the first two years of college work. They are still ascending, but they are already enjoying the transporting view of their graduation scene on the hills just across the Senior plains. This elegant book will be a constant proof of the happy fact that the Junior Class is composed of promising young men and young women who will make their mark in life. Heartiest congratulations to the editors of this excellent annual. DR. W. AUGUSTA LANTZ The years roll on and again it is time to welcome the Swastika. The appearance of this edition will be the fourteenth volume since the first one published in 1927. I lliink the Swastika plays a very ' important part in commemorating the history and life of the college. It portrays the students not only at work, but also in their lighter moods at play, and shows as perhaps no other publication can, the rapid progress that Catawba has made during the past fifteen years. Each successive volume has been an improvement upon the preceding one, and I am sure that the 1940 annual will surpass them all. I wish to congratulate the staff upon the accomplishment of a hard task well done. My best wishes go with yiiu, and the junior class in all your future undertakings.