Geneva College - Genevan Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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THE PRESIDENT v - As the editor of the Ge'37Ze'7Jl17'l entered my office today to ask if I had my farewell letter to the seniors ready, his coming was to me like the voice of con- science. For four full weeks I had been promising just this letter, and it was not written yet. It is embarrassing for a president to tell a student he is not prepared ! This, I mention for two reasons: the first is that it may establish a bond of sympathy between me and any student who pauses to read this page. Ah, I hear the reader saying: K'Prexy, too, is late in handing in his theme. What student has never felt as I feel? The other reason is that it enables me to say, in evident truth, that I do not like to write a message of farewell to the Class of '34. We have had a good time with this class. VV'e have scolded you sometimes, and laughed with you sometimes, but enjoyed you always. During this last year I have looked down at you in ifront of the chapel day by day, a11d a kind of camaraderie has developed. Now you will be gone, and with all our good intentions to coax you back sometimes, and your good promises to come, we shall see some of you but seldom and some of you not again at all. So I do not like farewellsg but I do want to wish you well. You are young and strong and well prepared, and the world, in spite of the depression of this present time, has its reward for character, and ability, and industry, and faith. There may be, hard work to do, and loads to lift, but you can do it, and you can get the blessing that comes from it just as every generation has. So we bid you farewell with confidence, and look forward with hope. They that wait upon. the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. I M CLEOD M. Pimnciz l