Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE VERY REVEREND LAURENCE J. McGINLEY, SJ. President of Fordham University For tl1is is your connnencement: the hour when Fordham says to all who read, Into the hands ol these, our sons and daughters, we confidently entrust those values for which this University stands. They are many and precious, these values of your Fordham heritage. X'Visdom and I,earning : truth and beauty and goodness-henceforth they are yours to understand and cherish and defend as did the saints and scholars who guarded them well on this campus a hundred years ago. On this our parting day, I would speak specially of one of them that you may ponder it and live it and pray over it in the years to come: I want to speak to you ol our lrnnmn freedom. What is this freedom? lt is simply this: that at each oi life's crossroads you may turn right or lelit, advance, retreat or just stand still-simply hecause you will to do so .... It is not a casually acquired dexterity like the ahility to speak French. lt is, with Gods grace, the center and source ol' your own special personality. lfor you are unique. God made no other like you nor will He. You have a special purpose for your existence- one all your own. .Xnd freedom is the dynamism out of which you are to achieve that particular human destiny for which God made you . . . know always that to achieve freedom is a spiritual task and it will require all the powers ol' your whole being in its attaining . . . the victory is worth the battle and none of you will ever light alone. From Fnllwr MrGinIf'y'.t rulclrexs In lhe grmlnaling class of 1955. I8

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THE REVEREND CHARLES -I. DEANE, S.-I. Vi1'1'-l'r1'xi1l1'nl mul Sl'l'I'l'l!lI'y Iir'm'rnI THE RICYICREND LAN'RlE.NC1li A. YV.-Kl,Sll. l'rn1fu.vl THIC REVISRISND EDWVIN A. QUAIN, .1r'ml1'mif' I' in'-l'ra'sirl1'nl ADMI ISTR TORQ Tllli RIQVEREND XVILLIANI NIIILCAIAIY, l il'l'-l'l'l'.Yi!lI'Ill for lfuxin1'sx mul Finmuv'