Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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ask that as you go your way in the world beyond the classroom you will make conscious and continuing effort to sustain the letter and spirit of your College in its avowal of purpose. We ask that in word and deed you join the privileged body of men and women, who, growing in knowledge unto wisdom, cherishing the delights of the intellectual adventure, following unafraid the quest for virtue, beauty and truth, meeting individual responsibility for the great human concerns of the common welfare, are strengthening liberal education as a power in the affairs of men and nations. For you, dear graduates,-dear friends, we hope all happiness. Yours in extraordinary measure is a day of decision and the opportunity before you is steeped in choice and challenge and temptation. Between right and wrong as you must see it, between comfortable self-interest and service even unto sac- rifice, between idle enjoyment and necessary hard work, between selfish taking and useful giving you have instant choice. We are confident that your well- considered way of life will express conscience, intelligence, and courage, and that you will follow it faithfully in service to your fellowmen, in loyalty to your government, in honor to your College,-and for yourselves, in the uncon- querable strength of self-respect, in the ceaseless stir of aspiration, in driving discontent with mediocrity, and in an insatiable striving for perfection wher- ever the way may lead. Even as the Spartan mother to her son going forth to battle, do we say to you, We shall look for word of you,returning-with this shield or upon it! 18

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I ' seo ' ' 1- -' f' illl'? ACTING PRESIDENT MARGARET V. KIELY Message from Doctor Kiely HE Hhasting years fly on with full careerl' and across the brightness of our college days Commencement 1949 silhouettes the passing of another Queens College class, the fifteenth in our history, the largest in number, and, in all the fond urgency of the moment, our best. Light and shadow give mood to the picture. Pride in the accomplishments of the graduating class shines through a dimness of regret that the close personal associations of classroom and campus are to be no more. We congratulate you, members of the class of 1949, on the distinguished success of your achievements. We wish for you lasting joy and an ever growing satisfaction in the attainment of the values in life which as students in Queens College you have learned to hold dear. We 17

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, .X - ,am-.,,.-, .R , -Q C - -- f 'xx-mu , 8 Y , K . . TO THE CLASS OF 1949: YOUR graduation marks the completion of your role as undergraduates, but does not terminate your association with Queens College. You now become a part of the alumni complement of the personnel of Queens College. As alumni, you and your achievements form a part of the life and history of the College fully as much as when you were undergraduates. The values to be gained by you and the College through your new status depend entirely upon how closely you associate your future activities with the life of the College. We urge you to keep the College informed always of your whereabouts and activities, even if a more active part in College affairs is not possible. The Faculty of Queens College congratulates you upon the completion of the first phase of your relationship with the College and wishes you success and happiness. W-zwfwf MEM, Acting Academic Dean 19