Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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FOREWORD To all who claim this College as their Alma Mater, and to all her loyal friends, I greetings: We present to you in this boolc the embodiment of the recollections of another college year. We have sincerely striven to compile a volume worthy of our Alma Mater. Should the reader of these pages be inspired with a more binding love for Penn State, our efforts will have been truly rewarded, for to this end have they been directed. X

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A, L, KOCHER

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