Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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The following contains excerpts from the Fall Convocation speech, delivered on September 24, 1987, by Peter Kristo. acting Senior Class President First, I would like to welcome the Class of 1988. It is my great pleasure and the pleasure of my fellow class officers to be elected to SGA by you. . , . The word Senior reminds me of a day of the week. Monday you are a Freshmen, Tuesday you are a Sophomore, Wednesday you are a Junior and Thursday you are a Senior. Friday means see you next year. ... It seems only yesterday when we were climbing those 6 — and sometimes 7 — flights of stairs at Russell Towers when we first moved in. Remember when we first moved in? Your fears! I wonder what my roommates will be like? Will I get along with them? . . . Will I get the top bunk? . . . Remember the cafeteria? Remember eating out and forgetting the cafeteria? . . . 6- Lobby is the place where people talk, sleep, and miss class together. G-Lobby is where you would check you mail box 6 or 7 times in the same hour. Remember those times when you received no mail for weeks? You were sure someone was stealing yours! ... The other day I heard a song. It was a catchy tune and had a profound chorus: I ' m doing all right. I ' m getting good grades. The future is bright. I gotta wear shades. We are an optimistic generation. We have our troubles. No generation has faced more turmoil in family life, more change in attitudes toward the rules of behavior than we. We have grown into adults during a v ,iJmM i mm it ■ I

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CRRE F S-im Shut up. (time for someone else to take your place. They ' ll be where you are soon enough) His last final. (it ' s been going on for a long time. Time is just up) As these last thoughts came to him, a door opened. A familiar face called his name. He sat down to talk. (a healthy person belongs to exactly where they are) College is over, who said anything about the party. — Michael Koykka -m ft ii l!

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VOTE row TALLARTI FOR SENIOR CLASS , PRESIDENT L VOICE E Atl ' .- times when stress has become a national disease. Yet we see a future so bright that we can joke about needing to wear shades, we are resilient. We don ' t need rose-colored glasses to see life. We live the good life, the moment, but we know happy moments pass quickly and must be savored. ... As we disperse into the world ... I hope we will not forget this happy moment when we were all the Class of 1988 and shared a common optimism about a bright future. I hope we work together to keep this moment, center it around our loyalty to Fitchburg State College, and remain together as a Class and reunite often under the alumni banner.