Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Very Reverend Michael J. Martin President

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A Message from the President Greetings to the Class of 1939 — the first from the new Loras College 1 One hundred vears have passed since Matthias Loras disembarked at what the author of Hid Battlements so delicately referred to as the bend in the river Great changes have come since that time — not over these holy hills, but over society Men have wrestled energetically with the eternal problems that concern man in this universe. Over the Eastern and the Western hemi¬ spheres new theories of establishing social stability and human concord have been tried Some of the old ones have had a renaissance under new mantles or with a fresh coat of armor. One need not be a prophet to say that another century will be even more eventful. But, yet the fundamental things that Loras taught to his few anxious students in his primitive rectory remain unchanged Per¬ haps, we of this past century have tailed on ' y in so far as we have lost sight of them I would as this hrst class to be graduated under the seal of Loras, to place themselves especially under his patronage Hold fast to his ideals He was a man with strong faith He struck out with a determination to overcome difficul¬ ties and to bear hardships It is not a platitude to say that we need pioneers again -pioneers of a new century We shall look long or them if we do not find them among our Catholic college graduates Cod bless you.

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