Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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TO MOUNT HOL YOKE Hear the wind Upon the leaves Hear the bells Upon the wind A Hear theiblow of everything Hear the sun upon the rupees. Oh good people passiagby Tap of heel upon the walk And a tear upon your eye And a hush upon your talk Chapel 'hells are ringing And Insgtay hear your singing y Iigr gway. And a If I sat In a tears of mi P' wi'

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LLAMARADA Mount Holyolze College South Hacuey, Massachusetts Volume LXIX May 19644

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l Late in the summer of 1913, one month after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sara- jevo, Edward, Lord Grey, Britain's Foreign Minister, looked out over London's evening skyline and said to his wife: f'The lights are going out all over Europe. They will not be relit in our time. Today, lifty years later, a light has gone out in the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the youngest man ever to be elected President, was killed in Dallas on November 22. Because of his age Kennedy was close to us. He represented a first step toward positions of leadership for this generation of students, he was making the way for us. Kennedy's youth was important for the Presidency as well. His energetic direction stimulated policy plan- ning and decision making from Executive Avenue to Foggy Bottom. He liked his advisors to be concise and knowledgeable, able to produce information the mo- ment it was needed. At the same time Kennedy brought an intellectual perspective to his office with his almost bookish sense of history and his extensive reading habit. His concept of this nationls place in world affairs led him to innovate with the Peace Corps and stand fast on traditional policy during the Cuban crisis. Kennedy's idealism was tempered with a shrewd sense of the possible. Robert Frost recognized the Pres- ident's genuine personality when he warned him before the inauguration to keep the Boston in him and leave the Harvard behind. This practicality was inherited from Honey Fitz and Joseph Kennedy and earned as well in door-to-door campaigns in Boston's South wards. The balance he brought to the job of the Presi- dency will not be seen in that office for many years. A light has gone out. The candle was relit, it must be hoped, with a reawakened gentleness, the human feel- ing which was not present in Dallas two weeks ago lj Mount Holyoke News December 6, 1963.