Pennsylvania College of Optometry - Iris Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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IN I-IGIXICDR OF lVIichael lvl. Curcio 0. D. this, the thirteenth volume of THE IRIS is dedicated. A grad- uate of Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, winner of the University Scholarship offered by his Alma Mater, Instructor in Ophthalmoscopy and Assistant Chief of Clinics, he has proven to be a great inspiration to the Class of l934. His tire- less efforts in his official capacity, his self-denial to further the cause of Optometry and the downright sincerity which he ex- hibits in considering the problems of the student stamps him as our true friend. The zeal he has shown in an unflagging quest for knowledge indicates for him a brilliant future.

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To The Class ol 19341 n consideration of the careful, time-tried guidance wfhiclh you have formally received in the matter of personal and professional conduct you will no doubt appreciate how difficult it becomes for me to avoid being anticlimactic in an effort to say to you something which could properly be construed as really new. Sooner or later you will have arrived at some more or less definite conception of the nature and of the solution of the problems which you indi- vidually will meet, just as many young men and young women have met in the past, within all the fields of human occupation. lt was not very long ago that I faced mine, and for tlhat reason they are still fresh in my mind. My solution of these has as- sumed the proportions of personal convictions, which I beg to present some of them to you. Perlhaps the most important question is the intimately per- sonal one of self-confidence, consistently and appropriately humble. Your college days are past, but your status as students must continue, for it is only in the conviction that your knowl- edge and understanding are at least the equal of any reasonable situation which may present itself that you will ever make a permanent acquisition of this quality. Having it you will un- knowingly reflect it, and tihus inspire, on the part of others, confidence in you, all aspects of your lives will be richer and