Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Mr. Peter D. Pelham How difficult it is to write an appropriate June message in January; how difficult to imagine final examinations and graduation festivities when snow and ice still cover the ground. But since we have entered the new year, it is at least easier to think in terms of 1967 and realize that this is your year, the year of your commencement. Commencements not only connote a sense of com- pletion. the awarding of diplomas and degrees for work accomplished, but also signify a beginning, a new phase in one’s life. On this occasion, therefore, I would like to request that as each of you approaches your 1967 graduation you think especially about two precious and related elements which constitute prin- cipal and integral parts of one’s commencement in life. Remember first the passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians which we have read together often, particularly that part which begins “But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” It suggests so much of what you have been working towards — a fulfillment, a sense of completion — and it concludes with what is in Paul’s mind, the summum bonum, the supreme good, for all mankind: Love. How appropriate this passage is to all of us and how timeless its meaning and intent. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the author of The Prophet, writing in another age, should think of the relation- ship between time and love and write accordingly: And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. The year 1967 marks but one commencement for you in a lifetime full of graduations. I hope that at each stage your development will reflect increasingly sensitive understanding of both love and time and that you will find many occasions to use that knowl- edge well in service to your fellow man. k - PulA 18

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the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. anonymous 17

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Miss Gutheim: Dean, U.S. History, Bible, Optima, Cum Laude, Student Council, Chapel Guild, Activities Coun- cil. above: Mrs. Jones: English, Carousel . below, left: Mrs. Parker: English. Art History, below: Mrs. Peirce: English, De- velopmental Reading.