East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Where We S em ft MjBSIffl AUSTIN BUILDING Svnibolizins Fiftv-Five Years of Service

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From the sandy wastes of the outerbanks to the upper tricklings of the Roanoke, from the broad fields of the coastal plain to the moss-draped shores of the Cape Fear came men and women to establish a college in rural Pitt County. East Carolina College, when it was founded fifty-five years ago, was destined to become the educational and cultural hub TO SERVE the eastern section of the state. There is for eveiy person some one scene, some one ad- venture, some one fiction that is the image of his hopes, of his purpose. In ancient Greek literature, two gates exist through which dreams pass; one gate is made of horn, the odier of polished ivory. Dreams come shining through the gate of ivory, but illusive and ultimately disappointing. But through the gate of horn pass dreams of trutli — dreams destined for reality. East Carolina College is a portal through which we, the hopes and dreams of the states and nations, pass. We pass here in our difficult journey from the glories of childhood into the sometimes subtle, sometimes abrupt, contradictions found in the world of sustenance and love and super-bombs. But we do not pass with minds unaltered. Here we learn to see be- neath the veneer, to distinguish the shadings of truth and il- lusion; here we become- men equipped TO SERVE. Few of us will be erudite, but each of us must embody sometliing of the ideal and be more able to confront his portion of the burden of existence. May this, the 1962 edition of the BUCCANEER, serve as a graphic record of East Carolina College — our gate of horn. .-. - A Review of

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