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In Parting To The Graduating Class of January, 1943 ■ Every other group of boys that has left from Girard College during my thirty years of service here has gone out primarily with the thought of its own success in industry, business, or professional life. You young men leave with the certainty that in some capacity you are going to serve your country in the preservation and in the perpetuation of its institutions, its traditions, its ideals, its very existence. Frankly, we would so much rather have you pursue your vocational and your avocational interests in a world of order, of peace, of security. We wish you might set out upon the plans you made for yourselves when you selected your courses of study here at the College. It is challenging to you, however, to know that when your nation needs your brain and your brawn you are ready to give them in unstinted service and in loyal devotion—to offer to industry or to the armed forces of the state your native abilities, your acquired knowledge, your developed skills. It is for us a tremendous satisfaction to believe—yes to know—that you will acquit yourselves with honor, with dignity, with courage, with grim determination wherever the government of the United States feels you are most needed. What a thrill to hear of you as we did of a former captain in our battalion who ranked tenth recently in a selective service examination of three thousand eight hundred and sixty-two candidates! Yes, we know that distinction will come to you in the shipyards of the Delaware, on the islands of the Pacific, in the waters of the Mediterranean, above the clouds over Europe, in the engineering courses of our universities, at your desks in offices of war enterprises, in the mills and factories of war production and that you will make good. We shall be proud of you. It is always a pleasure to hear from the boys who leave Girard, but how anxiously we will want to hear from you—to learn of your work, your triumphs, your services to the nation, your sacrifices! We pray for the day when you can again return to the constructive activities of daily service in a world of free worship and free speech—a world free from fear and want—freedoms you will have helped to secure for all peoples of the earth for all time. Of one thing we are sure: wherever you serve and whatever you do, the name of Girard will bring to you fond memories and the desire to do credit to the school that was for so long a time your very home. The time for advice and admonition is past: you are on your own. Set for yourselves standards of daily living, of achievement, of ethical and spiritual ideals, and live up to them. Measure yourselves by the best you know. May the homes to which you now return be richer and happier for your presence. Look back upon this home at Girard with affection—this home which will always be ready to help you with your problems and will forever glory in your successes. Sincerely yours,
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“My deeds must be my life. When I am dead my actions must speak for me.” SIjp GLnrmthian [ 6 ] January
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