Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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ZUG MEMORIAL LIBRARY Elizabethtown Coileg .Elizabethtown, Pa. 12022 Elizabethtown, PA 17022 As we pause for a moment in the year 1 984, many of us hear of bad news such as the wars in distant lands. Many of us feel the fear of nuclear devastation. Many of us know of the difficulties in getting a good education with increased costs. Although there is much to grieve about, there is much to be happy about. It is ironic almost to the point of comedy that people should so focus on evil that they blindly overlook the immeasurable abundance of good, happiness, even pleasure carried by this planet in time. Should we count the thorns Elizabethtown College VOL XXXIII without counting the stars? Do we forget that there is more peace than war and more beauty than ugliness? Why should we focus on hate and miss seeing love, or hear the groans of grief but be deaf to the songs of joy? There are lights in the world as well as shadows. There is virtue as well as vice. Our senses provide us with more pleasure than pain. On any fair esti- mate, the sheer volume of beauty, pleasure, goodness and happiness in the world would eclipse the very highest count of evil. Through the theme of the art presented in Ross M. Cleveland, Jr Editor Conestogan 1984, we have tried to present to you a humorous view of life as it is and how it might be. As the cover and end sheets portray, 1984 and the future is in a sense a time of chance. Like the game of Monopoly, in the game of life we must all learn to roll with the dice and not just focus on the bad. On the divider pages, we take a jesting look at how life may be in 2084 here at the college as it per- tains to the different sections of the book.