Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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, ..r- Tf ar r vr j| In dedicating this year book, it is extremely difficult to choose only a few out of the many wonderful things that could be written about Colonel Sanford J. Goodman, treasurer and director of operational services at Monticcllo. We will have to forego the derails of his great career as an athlete and his playing on the All-American football team while he was at West Point. We can relate only how important Col. Goodman is to us and to Monticello. Mr. Goodman is the motor in a giant mechanism which is not unlike a Rube Goldburg invention. This mechanism has the disarming title of Operational Services. There is a bus to take us to church on Sundays. This is operational services, and behind it is our Mr. Goodman, with pencil in hand, making an educated guess if a bus, two buses, or the limousine will do for off-campus trips. Could our meals be better? The food committee sees Mr. Goodman. We can sympathize with his budget worries and his effort to make the operation that is Monticello run smoothly on the script that has been written by the Board of Trustees. Even when, by our thoughtlesseness, wc make his life a misery and his nights a headache, (who left the water on that dripped through three floors and ruined the plaster?), our stage manager can still smile broadly at us and laugh at our young humor. Ve can only hope that this dedication of the Echo will, in a measure, express something that resides vith every Monticello girl when she thinks of Mr. Goodman. 36 zy 3 MONTICELLO college UBKhM 1L —

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 Io The Class of 1959: As you come to the end of your time at Monticello, it is with mixed emotions that I express to you, members of the graduating classes of Monticello College and Monticello Preparatory School, my best wishes and congratulations. There is sorrow, for during the few short months my family and I have been at Monticello, we have come to have for you true affection and deep respect — and sorrow goes with the parting of friends. At the same time there is joy, for we know you go on to new and exciting experiences, to a larger life, and to greater service. And, finally, there is hope — our hope for each of you that you will find life’s most worthwhile rewards in the years ahead — our hope that your future will be full and fruitful and that the days of your lives will be happy ones. Among the first things 1 learned upon coming to Monticello were her seven ideals — beauty, dignity, loyalty, friendship, service, wisdom, and democracy. If Monticello has helped you to move more closely to these ideals, we have done our job well. If, because of your experiences on this campus, you are able to live more nearly by these ideals, your time here has been well spent. Your graduation ceremonies arc called Commencement exercises because they mark the beginning of a new period in your lives. May you enter these years with courage and humility. May you combine fond memories of Monticello with enthusiasm and hope for the future. May you so live as you tread the road ahead, that those with whom you come in contact will be better for your passing their way. For, if you do these things, if you truly hold to Monticcllo’s ideals, you will surely live the good life. As you leave Monticello, then, Mrs. Wimpress and I send our warmest good wishes with you. We hope you'll return often to Alma Mater. Your mark has been made upon the tablets of this institution. We hope that Monticello forever has found a place in your heart. Good luck and Godspeed. G. Duncan Wimpress President