Peace College - Lotus Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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A Look at Peace Girls To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelhgent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and en- dure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson — 1 , t Hflk-V -; tf ' . BjX L .

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Fun ± Friends Peace College offers not only an excellent academic curriculum, but a chance for young women to make fnendships that will last a lifetime. These fnends are willing to listen, advise, help friends study, and to just plain have fun. The spirit of Peace is a very friendly one, and the girls here know there is always someone willing to put down her books every once in a while in order to clown around with a few of her friends. When friends go out, they enjoy all that Raleigh has to offer; the malls, restaurants, museums, movie theaters, and N.C. State University. They also leave the Peace campus for farther away places such as Chapel Hill. Green- ville, and Boone. Girls sometimes stay on the Peace campus for amusement. All sorts of high jin.x then occurs. Pizza is or- dered, and everyone gathers in a room to gossip, sing, and enjoy each others ' company. Cameras are brought out. and soon everyone in the room realizes just who the hams are. These photographs, however. will be cherished many years from now as young women mature into adults and reminiscence about friendships started here at Peace. 13

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thinking, learning, growing si ll My eyes are every brick that forms the founda- tion here and every pane of glass that forms a window. My ears are every staircase, doorway, and hall. I am Peace College. I heard a girl talking here the other day, and as she talked I thought surely she has voiced what my old eyes have seen time and time again. Yet, I am unable to speak of it. 1 feel as though I ' ve begun to grow up, she said. When 1 go home now I don ' t feel it a necessity to be out and about. I feel happy to be at home, in familiar sur- roundings with family. I enjoy being with the people who have planted seeds of value in me over the years. Seeds I didn ' t even realize were being planted. These campus halls, called home for two years, reverberate the discovery of girls here through past decades: the liberal arts education found here is the turning point in the lives of those who come here. We question our ex- istence and purpose, learn to stand on our own two mental thinking feet m thinking for our- selves, and leave with a clearer understanding that our destinies are in front of us.