Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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FOREWORD yffimmmsm Nineteen hundred and seventy-one. One year into a new decade. A year when the catch phrase doing your own thing seems to have come to the attention and inspired the coopera- tion of the world. What is this nebulous thing ' . ' When docs one recognize it? How does one nurture it? To identify this abstraction is the simplest of the trilogy of questions to answer. This vague thing is the development of one ' s own self. Henry van Dyke said: Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Once defined, recognition of self comes only when the need for identity is admitted. This admission may come at any period in one ' s life; however, when the acknowledgement does happen, it requires the understanding and the accepting of the responsibility for self not onlj as a microcosm, but also as a part of the macrocosm. With self interpreted and comprehended, the final question of development arises. In order that one ' s identity ma) mature, an evolution of one ' s expressions must take place: an evolutionary process that involves three key stages: expression as encountered in life expression as understood in life; expres- sion as created in life. Once these are challenged and attempted, the way to complete self-identity is made clear. Nineteen hundred and seventy-one. One year into a new decade. A year for Definition . . . Comprehension . . . EXPRESSION ...1971. II 1