Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind ... to make all your friends feel that there is something in them ... to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own ... to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future ... ' -m »v

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PEACE MAKERS Mankind must put an end to war, on war will put an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy The hightened tension on earth is increasing at an almost exponential rate. Presently, there are forty armed conflicts existing in and around the world upsetting the delicate balance of life on our planet. In the past few thousand years of human history, mankind has sustained fifteen thousand wars. Political tension is an infectious growth and the human community must be aware of this disease in order to destroy it before it destroys us. The United States can overkill every Russian person forty times. The Soviet Union can overkill every American person twenty times. To talk about negotiating from a position of strength from that position is obscene. — Dr. Helen Caldicott The atomic strength of the east-west conflict offers no hope for the survival of the living. It only offers a potential for a nuclear holocaust. T ranquillity on earth can not be established by sole supremacy, but it can be maintained by those who advocate peace over war, freedom in the face of oppression, and justice as opposed to disenfranchise- ment. Peacemakers are a positive check to the renewed cold war. They are determined to promote peace and to stop violence. It is to these individuals that we wish to dedicate the 1 3BA Merrimackan.