Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Abmtnistratum

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Dear Class of 1976 : I felt honored in being asked by our Board to return from retirement to serve as the chief executive officer of the College this year. Hence, it was an unexpected pleasure for me to have been associated with you in this, your last year as students at Girard College. It was only a few short years ago that the privilege was mine to have guided the admission of each and every one of you into the College. The fact that my return this year was unexpected makes me cherish this opportunity to extend hearty congratulations to you on the successful completion of your Girard careers. My year’s stewardship as chief administrative officer is not easy to measure. I believe we have made modest gains in improving the tone of student-staff relationships. In this you have had a hand and I am grateful for the good you helped accomplish. As when I began, I am more than ever convinced that the strength and progress of our school rests with the individual and collective strength of students and staff alike. In this historic year which marks not only America’s bicentennial as a nation, but also the two hundreth anniversary of Stephen Girard’s arrival and settlement in Philadelphia, we can look back with satisfaction upon the College’s contribution to the welfare of our city. The time is now at hand for you to pass over the same threshold from campi s life to community living which thousands before you have crossed. This is a milestone in your careers of which you should be justifiably proud. You take the blessing of all who have had a hand in your training, as well as the wish that you will strive earnestly to pattern yourselves after those who have gone before you in enhancing the very name of Girard through responsible citizenship and worthy achievement. Stephen Girard set goals of the highest order for his school. No school was ever blessed with a richer philosophy or endowed with more noble objectives to guide it through its course of development and service to the community. You have become beneficiaries of that philosophy and those objectives through exposure to a type of training designed to realize them. You go forth to test the efficacy of that training which has held so many before you in good stead. I urge you to emulate them in enriching the communities in which you live through endeavors steeped in the ideals which constitute part of the legacy left to you by our Founder. May God bless you and endow you with the rich rewards that stem from a life of useful living. Sincerely yours, Emil Zarella Acting Headmaster 4

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administration Mr. Emil Zarella ' 24 Acting President Dr. Andrew Weidener Director, Secondary Education Mr. Phillip Stetson Mr. Richard Wooten 6