Elizabeth City State University - Viking Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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CONGRATULATIONS, BEST WISHES, AND SIX QUESTIONS TO THE CLASS OF 1965: You have reached a point of many beginnings and hopefully have girded yourselves for ultimately providing answers to many questions. These are some of them: You are at a beginning which reflects your being a beneficiary of the American system of higher education. Through you, will it be revealed as a system rife with inadequacies or one amply justified for being in existence? You — more of you than in the past — approach the beginning of that task which deepens and refines your knowledge of subject matter, through matriculation in a graduate school. Will your advanced knowledge and skill wither on the vine for want of usage or will a prized advanced degree be for you and others a vibrant and pro- ductive thing? You are at the point of putting into practical usage your training for teacherhood. Will you eventually earn the honored cognomen. Educator? You soon will begin an existence during which the privilege of decision-making and your responsibility for having made decisions will both be greatly expanded. Will your grade in this assignment be a high one? You are beginning a wider citizenship amid one of the great revi- sions of society during human history. Shall it be recorded that you scored favorably with your constructive contributions to citizenship? You are at the beginning of wider and more varied opportunities to demonstrate personality and morality. Will it be said of you that these were like flowers whose loveliness remains ever an adornment? We pray that you will gain the strength and wisdom to provide answers to these difficult questions which will reflect high achieve- ment. Mrs. Ridley and I wish for you collectively and individually Godspeed and good fortune during your future lives of providing answers. We extend our heartiest congratulations for having thus far answered so many questions so well. Very sincerely yours. Walter N. Ridley President ■v «

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r ' m ERNEST LINWOOD HOFFLER 1883 - 1963 College Trustee and Benefactor

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WALTER NATHANIEL RID LEY Fifth President