Centenary College - Hack Yearbook (Hackettstown, NJ)

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To Dr.Treyorrow on his completion of twenty years of devoted service to Centenary, we, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven, dedicate this book. S 5 gr-

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.... I llllll Foreword 'fLife is a stage, so learn to play your part Laying gravity aside, or learn to bear its griefsf' Five'

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I l 'err 1 1 ilongratulations CAST The President ,,,, . ...,., ..,.,A fVV,,7V,,V D I . Tf6V0ff0W The Dean ,,,,,, V,,,,,,VV,VVv,w V,,V, .,,,,,,, M r s . Trevorrow Spokesman for the Trustees Y,,, . ,,,,,,........,...,..V, ,VVV . ,...A,.. D f. DuBois Time' Chapel Service, morning of March 17, 1037. Placea f--Wfhitney Hall. fAt time of announcements, spokesman leaves the platform, off right, returns with basket of beautiful roses. Places basket in front of the President who sits at large table in center of platform. President shows surprisej , fwith deep emotion, addresses the school., ' There may be many of us who do not know that March seventeenth is an anniversary. Twenty years ago Dr. and Mrs. Trevorrow came to Centenary. It isn't necessary for me to tell you what their coming has meant and will mean to us, to those who have preceded us, and to those who will follow us, but if I may borrow the words of a famous advertisement, the Trustees have said it with flowers, These blooms, being things of the earth and sun and air, will fade. They will have their little hour full of color and of fragrance, and then their transitory loveliness will be gone, but the donors have tilled these perishable chalices with the things that do not perish, loyalty, appreciation and affection, which, not being made of earth and sun and air, abide forever. Dr. and Mrs. Trevorrow. on behalf of your Board of Trustees, I have the happy privilege of presenting this basket of Howersf' frisesg pauses, speaksj. I I U Q ' It is rather overwhelming to have this recognition of approaching old age, but nevertheless I am very grateful to have spent so many years in such pleasant com- pany. Of course, these twenty years have gone very rapidly, in fact, so rapidly that it doesn't seem they can have gone at all. There are many things we should like to have done, things to accomplish for Centenary these twenty years. When we came to the school, we had seventy-two girls and next year we expect to have 172 on enrollment, so that means some growth. We had a debt, a very bad debt, a very annoying debt as debts sometimes are. We are glad that is all paid and we don't owe anybody anything. Vife have made a little beginning in our endowment, we wish it were very much more, we hope it will be very much more. And there are some other things that have been accomplished in the twenty years, but I think the finest thing that has been accomplished in the twenty years has been the love and affection of the girls who have been here and have now gone out into the world as cultured women. Our buildings might all be wiped out in some terrible catastrophe, but their lives stand and that is really very wonderful. I wish some of the Trustees were here that I might thank them personally for their thought and good will, but I am especially grateful to Dr. DuBois for the assurance which he has given me this morning. I have a lot of things in my heart to say but my tongue falters in the saying of them. I do hope that this is the beginning of better times for Centenary and for all of us. To save the first million is the hardest and I suppose the hrst twenty years are the hardest. But I am particularly grateful for your kind cooper- ation and for your loving thoughts, and very much touched by your expression of good will. Seven