Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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!l[ 11 111 llllBl Every student, whether a graduating senior or a freshman with just one year behind him, is beginning to realize that Park College means more to him than just an institution where academic learning is dis¬ pensed and the cultural pursuits may be pursued. There is something about living in an atmosphere in which the relationships are fine and wholesome which remains with one long after he has forgotten how to get a precipitate or conjugate a verb in German. “Foundation for living,” some people call it. Ten years from now no one knows what he or she will be doing. Perhaps the world will have recovered from this momentary insanity and we’ll all be living in peace and comfort, or perhaps we’ll be scat¬ tered over the face of the globe defending democracy and resisting aggression. In either instance, the chances are that most of our academic achievements will have slipped from us. But we’ll still be human, and we’ll look back on our college days as the best. A yearbook cannot touch those deeper things which will mean so much later. They lie below the surface. But by skimming over the top perhaps we can recall some of these memories. We sincerely hope so, and we hope that this book is representative of the varied existence which we lead here at Park. It’s informal, because you get a truer picture that way, life at Park being informal if nothing else. [ 5 ]