Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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OUR PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE LEVERING TYSON A.M.. LITT.D.. LL.D. President Our Eenial Pre-ident Born at Reading. Pennsylvania. April 9. 1889. Prepared at Reading High School. 1906: A.B. Gettyshurg College. 1910: A.M. Columbia University. 1911: Graduate Work. Columbia University. 1910-1914: Litt.D. Gettysburg College. 1930: LL.D. Lehigh University. 1937: LL.D. Franklin and Marshall College, 1939. Author of the following books: Education Tunes In. WTiat To Read About Radio, here Is American Radio Heading? Omicron Delta Kajipa. Phi Beta kappa. Phi Delta Kappa. T enlv.two

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ADMINISTRATION 1» • • S n administration we es- • • pecially remember Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg who wisely guided the first Congress as our admin- istration is sagaciously iuidin us today.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1943 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ALLEMOWN. PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Mav 1. 1942 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1943: You do not realize it but someone might just as well tell you now that when alumni of Muhlenberg gather in the next few decades you will be re- ferred to as war babies. That is. you are members of a class whose academic experience was interrupted and affected by this greatest of all wars. This name will follow vou through the remainder of your natural lives, ion could not escape, if vou would, the effects of the influences which are working upon ever - feature of existence in the world today. War leaves its trail of destruction and death and upheaval. Its scars are the kind that remain forever. — physical, in- tellectual, and spiritual reminders of terrible pathological conditions which, from time immemorial, have afflicted the human race and which erupt with traffic historic frequency. You are a small file in an enormous army of youth who are the latest Wctims of this cosmic disease. This condition verv likely seems more deplorable to older generations than it does to vou. For it is with a great deal of satisfaction that I have come face to face with the clear-eyed courage the present generation of young people possesses. Thev are not bemoaning their fate. They are looking the future squarely in the eve without flinching, and their whole attitude, to me. seems to be Were good enough. We can take it. We ' ve been given a mean job but well clean it up. The ver - spirit you have shown gives those of us who are remain- ing behind vear after vear the fortitude to earn.- on for your successors. If we can continue to breed such spirit, whatever we do will be worth while. So mav God bless and keep you sturdy and on a straight course to victo . a victory of far more importance than a mere military triumph. — a victorj that will make this world a better place than it ever has been to live in. It must bring that result, for He can not will it otherwise. Cordiallv vours. President. Twenly-three