Mount Wachusett Community College - Yearbook (Gardner, MA)

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DEDICATION John P. Hogan We the Class of 1968 wish to dedicate our memory book to Dean John P. Hogan. Without his help this book and our successful years at Mount Wachusett Community College would not have been possible. From our first encounter with him at Freshman orientation through the trials and tribulations of those first two semesters, Dean Hogan was always there, ready to guide us. I-low many times did he remind us to check the bulletin board? How many times did he come to our social affairs and sports activities to make sure all was well? More times than can be counted. I-Ie was truly an important member of everything we did, When we graduate from Mount Wachusett Community College we'll remember the professors and the friends who helped us here, but most of all we'll remember our closest friend, Dean Hogan, ' Dean Hogan, we will always remember the sincere interest you had in each one of us.

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Prologue A dilemma Faces the graduating student, a dilemma contained in Stephen Cranc's Poem, God Fashioned the Ship of the World. I have taken that poem and interjected gleanings from the student's text books, to illustrate, hopefully, the irony of that sit- uation called life, generally, and graduation, specifically. Donald L. Soucy Introduction THE STUDENT FASHIONED THE SHIP OF HIS WORLD CAREFULLY. the golden age of greece produced the finest thinkers of any. . . WITH THE INFINITE SKILL OF A MASTER we then proceed with its square root, hence the quadratic function. . . MADE HE THE HULL AND THE SAILS, beethoven, the symphonic form reached the pinnacle of perfection. . . HE LD HE THE RUDDER READY FOR ADJUSTMENT. but ask, what you can do for your country. . . ERECT STOOD HE, SCANNING HIS WORK PROUDLY. the organism attacks the red corpuscles of the blood. . . THEN - AT FATEFUL TIME - A WRONG CALLED, the rise of hitler in germany raises the question of versailles. . . AND THE STUDENT TURNED, HEEDING. a Freely competitive society, the propensity to consume is marginal if. . . LO, THE SHIP AT THIS OPPORTUNITY, SLIPPED SLYLY, We shall overcomeg We shall overcome some day. . . MAKING CUNNING NOISELESS TRAVEL DOWN THE WAYS. dialectical expresses the dynamic interconnections of things. . . SO THAT, FOR EVER RUDDERLESS, IT WENT UPON THE SEAS j' aime, tu aimes, il aime, nous aimons, vous aimez, ils airnent. . . GOING RIDICULOUS VOYAGES, MAKING QUAINT PROGRESS, rage, rage against the dying of the light. . . TURNING AS WITH SERIOUS PURPOSE pilate then asked what is truth, voicing man's most dire predicament. . . BEFORE STUPID WINDS. eli eli lama sabachthani AND THERE WERE MANY IN THE SKY WHO LAUGHED AT THIS THING

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Dear Graduates: The best of the fine group that matriculated at Mount Uachusett Community College with high hopes just a short time ago, now takes leave of us as the graduating class of l9o8. You have ample reason to be proud of the fact that you survived these two difficult years, which saw many of your classmates fall by the wayside. You are venturing into a world faced with national and inter- national problems of enormous gravity and complexity, at the same time the portion of your education just now completed, is a good deal better education than was generally available only a few years ago. With it, and with these challenges to stimulate your use of it, you face the new world with major promise. The same high hopes and the same rugged determination you brought here two years ago, now tempered with knowledge, skills, and judgment garnered in these years of study, will serve you well. I bid you God-speed with great pride, best wishes, and every confidence that you will make all of us at Mount Wachusett Community College most proud. Come back often. John P. Hogan, Dean of Students