Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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.q. . yr; - l5? 5,1 5T1 nu a Prove all Things Hnltl Fast That Which 15 Band T is with pride that we dedicate this 1943 Donnybrook Fair to an ideal that has been Goucheris heritage to her women for over lifty years-an ideal symbolic of all that is America. In a year in which the peoples of a Whole world are dedicating themselves to the ful- lilhnent of a working ideal of freedom, peace and tolerance, it is more important than ever that we accept this Challenge: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. The desire to prove that men of all crecds can live together on one soil under a govern- ment based on the premise of human equality and dedicated to the maintenance of indi- Vidual freedoms caused our forefathers to found this nation. This same challenge inspired each successive generatiOn to prove by its achievements that these forefathers had been right, to prove and then to hold fast, to live by and, if necessary, to die for these ideals which they had found to be good. We are the sixth generation. In the class- room, the laboratory, on the playing field, and in every minute of our daily living, we must justify the faith of six generations. Once again some of us are called upon to die for our convictions. The rest of us must live to be worthy of that sacrifice.

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PRESENTED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS OF GOUCHER COLLEGE BALTIMORE MARYLAND THE DDNNYBBIJIJK PAIR 1943

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THOSE things that change. those things that never change-this is our theme. In universities and meifs colleges all over the country change and acceleration have become the watehwords 0f the year. Here at Goucher also change and acceleration have stepped in, not primarily to shorten the period of education but to speed up thinking and do away with idle day-dreaming. Attitudes have changed. The fresh air of purpose has blown upon becalnied minds and stirred drowsing ambitions. The necessity for change has precipitated the growing up process so that no longer do college women think of their after-college future as some far distant entity, but as a part of their present to be looked at clearly and worked toward swiftly. College is no longer a haven on an isolated mountain top out of communication with the affairs of the world around it. The world has moved up the mountain and incorporated Foreword the haven. Perhaps it took a war to thus bring college into its own; to make it a train- ing school for life rather than a spectatoris seat: on the aisle. This is change, yes, but a stimulating one. Here at Goucher, Change has carried over into our daily living. One hundred and eighty of us have become newly accustomed to life in the country. 1943 has been a prevue 0f the years to come in which the Whole of Goucher will reside on the 421 Towson acres . . change again, but a long awaited one. But change here at Goucher has been more than an end in itself. It has acted as the catalyst necessary to the deeper realization that there are some things that must never change. We shall never abandon the educa- tional and ethical standards for which Goucher has always stood. For we are now consciously aware that they are the counter- part of the ideals for which the whole world is working, growing and changing. We give you the First year of life at a newer and greater Goucher.