Missouri Western State University - Griffon Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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y Xt? .. ,. I I 4 , ,W I R1 PFC N 1 A F01'WO1'd T HAS been a short year, but one packed with things we would remem- 1 29 ber, things so vivid that we smile at e1'na the idea of ever forgetting them. Yet we know we shall forget, and to aid , 9. 63 ,,. - K' 'r it . 7' lf2f11Q a tricky memory, we carefully store away our volumes of notes, our marked-up texts. But what of those things not neatly written down and catalogued-our classmates, likeness of your instructor drawn in the margin of your Rhetoric. You may lose your mimeo- graphed copy of the unior College song. Most of us have outgrown memory-books, few of us are patient enough to keep a diary. Hence the Griffon. Taking neither you nor ourselves too seri- ously, we have tried to catch the true spirit of unior College. Our philosophy, if we may call it by so dignified a name, is a youthful hedonism modified by a more thoughtful vein. And so in the Griffon you will find fact and fiction, sense and nonsense. As we present the Griffon to.guard your treasured memories, wve make the following rnodestfrequest: ' f With apologies to our fathers You cl 'scarce expect a stay? our size To make a book divinely wise. So if we chance to fall below 0 0 35 If' 'R u l A If rr rl K5 sf 1 our good times, our organizations? It is a poor ' fa J f P I Princeton, Smith, or I claho, Don't view its with a critic's eye, Bat pass our imperfections by. ' -' B I ' x I Page Two Wh inf ha.

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X X As ar white candle in 21 holy place, So is the beauty of an aged face. Lovingly we dedicate our book to the memory of Miss Etta Knowles, l who spent the tall white candle of her life in shedding abroad her gentle 5 influence, a light which will long continue to guide us, though the candle has in this world burnt itself out. I Page Three