Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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FOREWORD PRESENTING THE forty-second volume of The Kcxrux in appreciation of Dr. Boyd Edwards, Head- master for seven years, preacher, friend, counsellorg the affectionate help of and association with Mrs. Edwardsg the loyalty of the members of the Faculty and those persons whose names appear in this book. May the story contained herein bring to its readers much joy and happiness in the years to come.

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IOHN MILTON DRUMM Treasurer of the Academy For thirty-five years, he has qiven de- voted service to the Academy. His wis- dom and the handling of the finances ot the School have been paramount contributions to the success of this Edu- cational Enterprise.

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U. S. S. RELIEF UNITED STATES FLEET SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA, April 10, 1955. DEAR MERCERSBURG SENIoRs: When you read this letter it will be on the occasion of your Commencement. Please accept through me the congratulations of each Mercersburg Alumnus. We, the graduates and former students of that Academy, can more feelingly and more under- standingly congratulate you than any other of your well-wishers. We joy with you in the fulfilment of a dream, we know your pride in having attained the coveted diploma from Old Mercersburg, we thrill with you in the happiness that comes to a boy who wears the crown of victory laid upon his head by the strong hands of a Mercers- burg Headmaster, but we commiserate with you that your days as a student at the Academy have come to an end. Only with the passing of time will you fully realize this deprivation. Happily the gates of the campus are not closed, but on the contrary the arms of the School are held open to you and will always bid you Welcome You will wish more as you grow older to drink there of the fountain of youth. That fountain will ever bubble refreshingly and restoratively. Its water will cool your tired brow and inspire your weary mind. With the responsibilities, anxieties and fatiguing forces of age, you will truly thirst for its sparkling waters of rejuvenation. Today you are full of the exuberance of youth. The world is viewed as a beautiful wilderness to conquer. The future is yours. It is well that you have the courage and optimism to conquer the unknown. Do not let the pessimism of age deter you. Go forth to master that by which we of an older day have been defeated. Do not be dis- couraged by the failures of your elders. Do not live in the yesterdays but live in the dawn of tomorrow. Don't talk of what you are going to do. Do it. Keep your faith in yourself, in your country, and in the Master of Mankind. Go forth to battle singing as Crusaders: Ready to go, ready to wait, Ready a gap to fill, Ready for service small or great, Ready to do His will. and believe with Emerson that Self-mastery is the essence of heroism. Remember, fellows, that in the battle of life we cannot hire a. substitute. Upon the assumption of the Mercersburg Alumnus status, you accept certain obli- gations: loyalty and devotion to your Alma Mater, nurturement of her traditions, her ideals, her precepts, service to her in word and deed and prayer. Consecrate a part of your life to her development. By making it a practice as you go out from her to think of her every day, you will subconsciously as well as consciously materially serve her. The opportunities for service to one's Alma Mater are limitless. Each of you will find some distinctive form in which to express his interested devotion. Through the Alumni Association you will experience important opportunities for usefulness. Today you can commence coming in under her portals through new students whom you direct into her gates. Boys, America needs you right at this very hour-one of the most serious and threatening in her history. Do have faith in her foundations, stand on her traditional bulwarks, revere the stable forces of government that have made her the Nation among nations, keep her respected and respectable, purge her of crime and corruption, make her citizens self-reliant that they, as the component elements of the nation, may assure that this nation will stand and, having stood, face the future unafraid. Dependency makes for timidity and weakens moral fibre. Consecrate your lives to good citizenship. Service to country begins in one's own soul and is expressed in one's work for com- munity, state, and nation. What our country needs most today is individual adherence to religious teachings and principles. Sons of Mercersburg, march forward onto the broad highways of life, determined to crusade for the right by living aright yourselves. Faithfully yours, a....e.f?fa ,'-U . President, Alumni Arrorialian