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

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..■■-.:■•■ ■■ President A. R. Keppel, LL.D. To the 1954 Graduates Dear Friends : I am certain that deep down in your hearts you approach your departure from Catawba College with mixed emotions. You are happy and relieved over having com- pleted your undergraduate course of study and anxious to begin the next lap of your life adventure, but you are also reluctant to write finis to the associations and happy experiences which you have enjoyed as members of the Catawba College fellowship. If this is the way you feel, I can only say that your reaction is normal and that we who remain here share it with you. But please remember that true friendships are never really severed and that although our paths of intimate association may veer far apart, yet the thoughts and memories of those college experiences together will ever keep us united in a common course. 10

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DR. LIONEL A. WHISTON FRIEND, COUNSELOR, CHRISTIAN

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You are now or will soon be members of that great body of folk which calls itself the Catawba College Alumni Association and as such, you have a right to feel a well deserved pride. May I venture the hope, however, that this pride is of a type that centers more in your Alma Mater for what it is and what is has meant to you, than in yourselves for having arrived. I say this because increasingly I am convinced that the real mark of an educated person is a feeling of humility rather than pride, a grow- ing personal conviction that he knows so little and that the great search for wisdom is lifelong. I hope this belief is yours today and that you may hold to it always. One of your number just said to me, I am planning to go into social service work, for in it I shall know that I am doing something for others. That thought represents a most worthy life philosophy. But to be sure, not all of you will be choosing this same vo- cation, and that is only as it should be. But all of you, no matter what your particular vocational leaning, should weigh your ultimate choice in the light of that selfsame serv- ice factor. For I can assure you that you will be happiest in that life work in which the major portion of your remuneration is a personal satisfaction which comes to you from the knowledge that you are serving your fellow beings. Please accept my heartiest good wishes for your future and know that I shall always be tremendously interested in your progress and in your happiness. Do not lose contact with Catawba College. Return often and maintain your interest and loyalty always. Most sincerely, A. R. Keppel President Administration Raymond Jenkins, Ph.D. Dean of Faculty and Professor of English Donald C. Dearborn, Ph.D. Dean of the College and Professor of Mathematics Elisabeth R. Scranton, M.A. David J. Sessoms, M.A. Dean of Women and Dean of Men and Professor of History Director of Student Activities