Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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U. S. S. RELIEF SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA March 18, 1934. A privilege has been given me to send you a message through the medium of the 1934 Karux. While this privilege is accorded me, my message comes to you from the entire Alumni Association. 'T EAR MERCERSBURG SENIORS: 'Zo We are indeed happy to congratulate you on your graduation and to extend the warm hand of welcome into the Alumni Association. You are now qualified to join our organization. While we are happy to have you as members in the group that have passed out of the portals of the classroom of the Academy, we cannot but regret with you that you will no longer be students in the School of which you have become an integral part. We your predecessors would welcome the opportunity once again to be- come students on the beautiful Mercersburg campus. Time unfortunately does not go backward. When your name is read out to receive your diploma, you step forward to receive a certificate that attests to the fact that you are no longer a Mercersburg student. While with that step that you take here will be a hrill because of the realization that you have accomplished an objective yet there will also be a heaviness of heart in the conscious- ness that your Mercersburg student days will never be yours again. As the years pass you will long for those days. You can gratify your souls' desire in a modified form in the years to come. Actively associate yourselves with the Academy from the day of your graduation through the medium of the Alumni Association. For the Hrst few years you may wonder just how much an association benefits either the Academy or yourselves. Sometimes there will come to you from the unknown a full realization of the value of such relationship. You will sense not only pride but deep satisfaction that you have contributed, merely by the listing of your name with such a body, an inestimable service to your Alma Mater. If your name is given to an activity, your spirit will be there and if your spirit, then your mind just as long as you live. The Alumni are the life-blood of any educational institution. Each of you are needed to sustain the Academy. Some of you may aid in the material things of life, others in that intangible substance known as Service. The poorest one of you, in what is known aswealth, can contribute the greatest if he is so minded. Keep in close contact with the Academy and not only stand ready to aid her but seek ways and means of serving her from today on. Do not wait until you think that you are more advantageously able to give of your substance. Live to serve whether it be your preparatory school, your com- munity, your state, your nation or our fellowman the world over. Yes, live to serve! As you leave the Academy for wide fields of service, the Alumni of Mercersburg Academy put their arm of affection about you in brotherly reunion and whisper in your ears, Go forth to battle in the world of opportunity for service and God bless you. Faithfully your friend, fSignedJ JOEL T. BOONE, '09, President, Alumni Association.

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