Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Our thanks go to Miss Hendrix, our class advisor, whose helpful advice, sympathy, and understanding have endeared her to us. DEDICATION To our parents, because we love them, and because we are grateful for all the have been to us, we dedicate the 1954 Cl pola. Their understanding, their guidance, and their faith in us have given us a needed inspiration. 6

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As I try to put into words our good wishes and our farewell to the Class of 1954. the newspapers are full of stories of the latest man-made explosion to date and of its almost unbelievable results. What words can we find to sa as we send you out to meet so strange and unpredictable a world? 1 turn, as I think of you and your gradu- ation. to E. M. Forster who wrote in another critical year. 1939. that he discerned in the world a sort of aristocracy — an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate, and the plucky. I And by plu ck, he meant the power to endure.) Its members are to be found everywhere and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. It is to that aristocracy that we commend you. There may you be found — among the sensitive, the considerate, the plucky — for with them you will represent man ' s permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. May you be able to say with Rufus Jones. 1 find it absolutely real that God holds one’s hand. There’s nothing, anywhere, to be afraid of.” April. 1954

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