East Mississippi Community College - Lion Yearbook (Scooba, MS)

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I N IE COGNITION... We pause here to offer recognition to our beloved President, on his retire- ment from regular active service as President of East Mississippi Junior Col- lege, and to Mrs. Wallace. We are indeed glad of the opportunity of being able to tell you of the personal esteem we hold for you and the very keen sense of deep appreciation we have for your untiring efforts in behalf of the College. For a period of sixteen years your unfailing will to work, your energy and your perseverance has been the guiding spirit of this institution. In the building of most of the physical plant, in the selection and direction of the faculty, in obtaining legal and scholastic recognition and financial aid, you have moved forward and onward at times when men made of less sterner stuff or weaker wills would have faltered and failed and lost the cause. When others faltered, or came near faltering, you fought on and snatched victory from the flames of failure. When faced with conditions or situations almost unsurmountable. you have refused to recognize that there was such a word as quit ; to just such a spirit on your part we feel sure that this institution owes its very existence. Truly we are your grateful debtor. You found us with a mere school. You leave us with an institution, ft will be a monument to you far beyond our years, the perpetuation of which

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A T Miss Edna Erie Sike CONTENTS Book One . -Administration Book Two, -Student Body Book Three-. ..The Features Book Four „ The Athletics Book Five ..The Activities Book Six The Advertisements

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will partly depend on those who follow you. However, there is one monu- ment that you have already completed, and this monument is within the hearts and minds of the countless hundreds of students that have felt the in- fluence of your guiding hand and the elevation of your inspiring thought. You have taught them never to compromise with wrong. You have taught them to he ever prepared for battle, how to win without boasting, and how to lose without complaining. You have exalted in their minds the true and you have condemned the false. Through them you shall live and their works shall he your lengthened shadow. Ever in the midstream with you, wielding the oars, stroke for stroke, has been your helpmate and companion, Mrs. Wallace. She, too, deserves credit for the force of her hand has been felt in every endeavor. On behalf of the Annual Staff, on behalf of those you have taught, and their parents, and on behalf of your great host of friends and acquaintances, we want to sincerely thank you and gratefully acknowledge our everlasting indebtedness to you. Whatever, this institution may become, it would never have existed as a junior college had it not been for your untiring efforts and your unconquerable will, and we predict that its choicest tradition in the future will be the name J. D. Wallace . M Ha BwIKTT jHH Ps9S ■BflflHBR $1hS H H Emsm IKcnM