Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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Thoughtfulness ma es friendships, and thoughtfulness e e ps them. ' DABNEY LANCASTER L 1000205006

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O a greater bond of friendship thr ough universal education made to receive and comprehend the difficulties that people face. Those students of yesterday are the men and women of today that are making our world peace. Spring, 1945, brought our final blow and victory against the Axis powers. Later in the same summer Japan was defeated. Steps were taken immediately for the building of a lasting peace. Realizing that we have to live with all types of people, we saw that to do this, cooperation is necessary. Understanding must come first. To understand each other there must be a thorough knowledge of each country, its people and customs. This knowledge was probably gained from a class ' room. The steps leading into a classroom may lead to universal peace also. T reshmen, entering S. T. C. and seeing the number of stairways, have only one thought: how shall I ever climb up all those steps? But later they realize the important part that steps play in their lives. Steps lead upward to places of higher learning which provide a better under ' standing of the problems of one ' s fellow man. This leads to world ' wide cooperation and bonds of true As well as being useful and a most important friendship. Think for a moment of the millions of fixture in our lives, steps are very ornamental, great men and women that have trod steps leading Therefore, because of these things we feel that this to classrooms, athletic fields, offices, lecture rooms tribute showing our appreciation for steps should and club rooms, where the mind is broadened and be written.

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Jiicati LOU DR. JOSEPH L. JARMAN President State Teachers College Farmville, Virginia