Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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President Evans 1

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Spring, 1983 Dear Seniors, Recently, I received a twenty-fifth reunion yearbook from my own college, full of pictures and memories of experiences that still seem like yesterday, It made me think of you, making this important transition, and about the kind of growth that happens during these college years but can ' t really be assessed until much later in life. When you have a chance to look back, I hope you ' ll find that somewhere during your days at Mount Vernon you gained enormously in independence and self-reliance. I hope you ' ll find that you built a real sense of self-esteem, a sense of self-identity, even if it was sometimes painful. I hope you’ll find, too, that you learned to organize and use your time productively, learned to set priorities, found you were challenged to grow, and responded. I hope you ' ll discover that each success, whether large or small, built new options for your future success. Most importantly I hope you ' ll see, when you look back, how much growth came from relationships — the dose and happy ones with friends that will last through your life, the ones with professors or mentors that helped you face difficult decisions. As you take your place in the world both richer in opportunity and more complicated in choice than I faced twenty-five years ago, I hope you ' ll think of Vernon and come back to share with us your perspective on the values you had experienced here. M. Jane Evans President 20 President Evans

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Dr. Judith Weiner Admmiitrauon