Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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llemsen ll. Ilird AT THE moment of writing this word of greeting we are planning our Founders Day. The world situation is increasingly complicated. In its confusion we are called upon to make the major decisions in our lives. It is one of the great crises of our times. Within the walls we sense a unity ofhumane and friendly interest, the desire on the part of all of us to bring the ideal world out of the heavens and make it work, to see the new jerusalem in this pleasant land. In this time we are also especially mindful of the members of our faculty who have served for twenty years and more. Presently there will be a special honoring of this group. However, the day of Occidental is not backward, but forward. The foundations have been well laid during these fifty-five years, and faculty services enable us to enter into the rapidly enfoldin g confused world with hope, assurance and increasing purpose. When the present generation of students reaches the fullness of its life may there be for them a world where intelligence and kindness and devo- tion are more effective for the good life than they are at this moment. We believe that such shall come to pass. To all of Occidental we give our greetings and share our household affections. REMSEN D. BIRD.

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IHA lll FA TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The college generations come and go. Before one is aware, the freshman has become a senior and the senior has become the head of a household and begun to worry over the frivolities and shortcomings of the younger generation. La Encina is a book both for the moment and for the years .It records in narrative and picture the activities and achievements of the college year. It will be read with interest and excitement when it makes its first appearance on the campus, and its pages will be fondly turned when hands have begun to tremble with age and memory has grown blurred about the edges. In these mad days, when wars are shaking all the earth and the face of history is being changed and mankind is moving to an unpredictable destiny, it is well that we should have this memorial of the year that is closed to remind us that there is still somewhere on the earth beauty and peace, friendship and happy associations, and the undimmed light of truth and knowledge. Robert G. Cleland. .1 TY lliiliertli ll e and