Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Be it six years or six weeks, time spent in college is valuable. Diligent students success- fully combine academic and extra-curricular activities. Scholarship is of major importance and well informed students are necessary for world progress. However, the practical part of academic achievement is perhaps too much emphasized. We find ourselves losing the worth of true scholarship which lies in the realization that learning is good in itselfg that by delving into the rich stores of knowl- edge we are building our souls up to greater heights of appreciation and worthiness. Long after books are sold and notes are filed true scholarship remains. Scholarship I

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Left to right: Howard Kauffman, treasurer: Walter Yoder, sponsorg Flora jean Hostetler, secretary: Albert Buckwalter, vice-president: Elaine Sommers, historian: john Hess, president. THE CLASS OF There was a war on in the autumn of 1943. It was something the freshmen didn't talk about much, because it wasn't pleasant. But the consciousness of it was there, all the time. There were the news reports and the letters. There were the questions, Will I finish this semester before . . One by one the fellows left. Twenty-two people who began that fall graduate now in june, 1947. All of them are women. They will not forget the accelerated program or the thread-worn comments by visiting speakers on the three-to-one ratio. They will remember world significant events in the light of their own ex- periences-wondering what President Roosevelt's death would mean to the world and how histor- ians of the future would interpret it, wondering what life in an atomic age would be like. But V-E and V-J days came at last, and the class of '47 began to feel post-war changes along with the rest of America. Goshen College was growing. Men who had given their peace testimony in CPS were back on the campus. School teachers and students from other colleges and countries joined them. There was an element of maturity in the class of 1947. They had lived through a war. This class will be remembered for many things. In the autumn of 1946 they left the campus waving at their junior friends. There was no longer any sneak to the sneak. Three students from foreign countries graduate in its ranks, representing Holland, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Four of its members are in the first group of American Mennonite students to spend a summer in Europe. At least five will be on the relief or mission fields a few months after graduation. Many of them have served in CPS or have acted as sea-going cowboys. One class member has served for many years as a missionary in China and Tibet and now graduates with his grand nephew, a young minister. More than one junior alumnus will be in the audience at commencement to watch daddy get a sheepskin , This class will be remembered for many things! At a time when currents in American thinking, art, literature, and science are largely pagan, what will this class contribute? Its members believe that the Sermon on the Mount should be lived. They believe in Christ and the Bible, They believe in evangelism and in simple living. What will they be and do? That story is written in the future. page twenty-eight 3