Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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1979 GRADUATION ADDRESS lers of the Class of 1979: Graduation is a very auspicious and momentous day in your lives. You have completed your formal education at Delaware Valley College. You have proven to us, to yourselves and to your families and friends that you possess intellectual capacity, ability to adjust to people and circumstances, discipline, desire, determination, motivation and perseverance to face challenges and to finish successfully an academic program in your chosen major field of studies. Many people enroll in college but not all graduate. You, the members of the Class of 1979, completed your tasks in an admirable manner. I commend all of you, especially the part-time students who completed their studies in our Evening Session over a period of many, many, years. You attended high school and college during an exciting and challenging era. You witnessed the end of one of the darkest times in the history of our nation-the Vietnam War and the resignations of the Vice President and President of the United States. You witnessed a Nation torn by dissent and ravaged by inflation. You also witnessed the Bicentennial Celebration which proved that a free and independent society can survive, can solve its problems, and can pull itself out of an abyss of desperation and degradation. Our Nation was challenged from the very beginning, and every generation of Americans had to prove, often in battle, that our principles, our ideals, our hopes and aspirations and our way of life are worth preserving and are worth fighting for. The United States had problems in the past, is experiencing problems today and will, no doubt continue to have problems in the future. Nevertheless we are the envy of the world. Our United States is the only country in the history of the world which helped its defeated enemies to rise and challenge us economically and politically. You graduates are moving on to take your rightful place in society and to enhance not only your own careers, but also the lives of your loved ones and the welfare of our country. You cannot isolate yourselves from society as a whole. You must become an integral part of a viable and productive nation. You are well prepared to face realities and to participate in the solutions of our present day problems. You are also well prepared to contribute to the planning of your own future and the future of your fellow citizens. Some of you will continue graduate studies, others will teach, and still others will be in their own agri-business or other businesses. Some will be employed in private in dustry and various governmental agencies. All of you will be employed in some managerial, technical and certainly productive and challenging field. When you work-work hard and honestly. We must develop a new pride in America, a pride in hard work and accomplishments, a pride in productivity, a pride in producing the very best. We have the greatest technology in the world. We developed the highest standards of living in the world. We unselfishly aided millions and millions of people on earth to survive and to raise their standard of-living and now America is prepared to pay the price for its goodwill and assistance. The people of America today are facing the greatest challenge in the history of our Nation- our economic survival. Our technology and our standard of living require an abundance of energy. In spite of our tremendous deposits of oil, natural gas and coal, we have become more and more dependent on foreign imports which are constantly rising in price and becoming increasingly unreliable as a source of supply. The United States cannot and will not become a vassal to any nation on earth. The United States cannot and will not abandon its principles to accommodate foreign nations in order to insure an adequate supply of costly oil. The United States must and will solve the energy problem. To do so-it will require some initial self-sacrifice. It will require conservation, the recycling of many products and careful and judicious planning. It will require the utilization of safe nuclear energy, economical conversion of coal to oil products, the utilization of gas-alcohol mixtures, the development of safer, cleaner, faster and better electrically operated public transportation systems and the development of carburetors and engines for automobiles, trucks, and buses which will provide at least 60-100 miles per gallon. Some of you may be skeptical, but believe me.