Juniata College - Alfarata Yearbook (Huntingdon, PA)

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Presiclent's Message Juniata College has been a part of the good town of Huntingdon for sixty years- the town set in the midst of a thousand hills . The Juniata College student there- fore lives surrounded by beauties of nature that call to the deeps of his spirit when he lifts his eyes to the hills whence comes the strength of God. Standing on a knoll we call Round Top one's gaze sweeps across Lion's Back and Flag Pole l'lill and on to Terrace towering aloft in the silent light, thence to Shelving Rocks and l.effard's Bench, out Woodcock Valley, and across Warrior Ridge, resting at last on the blue of l'ussey,above which the pennants of the sunset flutter out at times in orange and gold to the farthest reaches of the sky overhead. - When our gaze drops on the Blue Juniata moving lazily around the Smithfield Bend and later more sturdily making its way through Jack's Narrows below the turn, all memory of the St. Patrick's Day flood is forgotten, and we seem to be gliding with the river back into the days of the Standing Stone and Alfarata. Qnce more the students of the college that has borrowed the name of the river greet you in the volume that has adopted the name of the lndian maiden of long ago-and we know that Round lop calls again, and another commencement is justoverthe rim of tomorrow, Very sincerely yours, Charles C. Ellis

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' - I I l THE DEAN We are daily recording our actions and deeds in our own minds and in the minds of those with whom we live. You students are writing the history of your college, adding page by page as the years come and go. Some pages contain records of notable personal achievement, some of great loss, some of great advancementg but all contain records of a group of students and faculty, living, praying, and working together as one happy family. These records may be very clear or somewhat dimmed to us by the active or non-active part we take in the events to be recorded, or because of the passing of time which seems to place past events in a shadow, so that the details are not clear and distinct. The page of history which you are writing this year is such that you will want neither inactivity nor duration of time to cause the events recorded on that page to be dimmed for you. We are looking to those whom you have chosen to put this record in lasting form, to do so in such a way that no matter how many years have passed, when we pick up the book and thumb through its pages, the shadow caused by time will be driven back and the events recorded will seem to have happened but yesterday. It is such a record we wish for ourselves and for you, and hope that it will recall to you a very happy period in your life. Very sincerely yours, J. CLVDE STAYER OF MEN