Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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JN PRESIDENT ALLMAN we students have had an inspiring leader. His unselfish work on our be- half and his numerous other difficult tasks has given us an ideal toward which to strive. We can only repay him by proving ourselves worthy of his efforts.

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TO GRADUATING CLASS OF 1936 TX7ITH its background of 40 years achievement, your School has earned a high position as one of America ' s outstanding agricultural institutions. This pioneering school, founded in 1896, is still pioneering, always keeping in the van our paramount objective — to afford farm-conscious young men a vocational career, in all branches of agriculture. The limited oppor- tunities afforded at the School ' s inception should be obvious to the graduating class of 1936, when they compare the initial period with its few acres, small faculty and equipment, to the enlarged institution you are now leaving. Nevertheless, we can point with pride to many who graduated over a genera- tion ago, now leaders in agriculture and staunch supporters of the School. I am confident, that you, too, as members of your Alumni, will help to the end, that others may enjoy the privileges that were yours. You have secured employment. Life on the farm will not be as easy as your school days here. But I beg of you not to become discouraged if conditions do not break just as you plan them. The beginning of any career is invariably an uphill struggle. Hence patience, courage, and perseverance should abound in your consciousness. Many of the world ' s captains of in- dustry and other successful men of affairs started on their careers, often with little, if any, training. They overcame their limitations by strength of purpose. There is always room at the top for those willing to learn, even though they start at the bottom. The men and women who support this Institution and your instructors only ask in return for their time, energy and means that every boy who leaves our gates shall prove himself a true citizen, a credit to himself, his family, his friends, and his Alma Mater. HERBERT D. ALLMAN, President.

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THE CLASS OF 1936: THREE years ago we welcomed you to the school as Freshmen. At that time the depression compelled us to make retrenchments. For that reason your Class was considerably smaller than the preceding classes and you are graduating with fewer in numbers than the previous classes. While your Class is smaller, we believe you have benefitted by receiving more personal attention from your instructors. Realizing that you are going out into a changing world and also believ- ing that the future in agriculture requires a man of business ability as well as a skillful operator, we have stressed our work along those lines. In order to be successful in agriculture, it is no longer sufficient to be an average producer. Agriculture today can be divided into three classes; those who are producing less than the average and making a failure; those who are producing average and making a living; those who are producing above aver- age, who are known as successful farmers. It was our aim to train you for the latter class and we hope we have done our work well. Therefore, all we can wish for you is a successful career. t . i .