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

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I - 1 L ' A A. R. KEPPEL. LL.D President of Catawba C oiiege PRESIDENT • DR. KEPPEL To the Members of the 1962 Graduating Class: Now that you have successfully completed your undergraduate course of study and can therefore feel a just sense of pride in having earned your Bachelor of Arts degree, you have a right to believe that finally you have arrived. But, if, in the process, you have truly gained that knowledge and that maturity which your college experience should have rightly afforded you, you must also know that your arrival is only an ar- rival at another beginning. Whether that beginning be your matricu- lation in a graduate school or in a professional school or whether it be your direct entrance into business or teaching or some other career, you will, nevertheless, again be but a Freshman. Dif- ficult and perhaps somewhat irritating as this thought may first appear to be, do not cast it aside as being foolish. Verily, it is true, and only as you fully accept it with grace and understand- ing can you begin to prove the real worth of your four years at college. Nor will this be your last start, for life at its best is but a succession of beginnings. This does not mean that what you do in the interim periods between beginnings will be un- productive. On the contrary, the kind of produc- tion that stems from an admission that you never finally arrive, that you never finally know, results in a spirit of humility which is mandatory to all real progress and to a type of service that knows no limitation. I congratulate you most heartily on this mile- stone in your achievement. May God guide you on the road ahead and may you increasingly strive to prove your worthiness of His grace and of His continuous blessing. Most sincerely, A. R. KEPPEL President 12

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The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge, but in kindling other minds to the love and pursuit of learning. His time spent gathering this treasure is given its greatest reward when he has stimulated another mind to also search for the wealth of knowledge. The teacher knows that the desire for knowledge, like the thirst for gold, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Si

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DONALD CURTIS DEARBORN, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics Dean of the College RAYMOND JENKINS, Ph.D. Professor of English Dean of the Faculty DEANS DAVID J. SESSOMS, JR., M.S. Associate Professor of Political Science Dean of Men NAR WARREN TAYLOR, M.A. Dean of Women