Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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To the Class of 1948: You are the largest and in many ways the most mature Senior Class ever to be graduated from Rollins College. Many ol you who gave several years of your life to the defense of vour country are more mature than your classmates. You have gained a knowledge of life than can he ac quired only by living out in the world. You have gained knowledge and wisdom to some extent as a result of vour stay here and because ol that you are undoubtedly better equipped to meet the many problems of the world than I or most ol your instructors were when we left college. Never has the world needed wisdom and knowledge as much as it does today. The generation now coming into power will carry us a little farther than my generation was able to do, but without vour intelligent help they will not be able to accomplish much in solving the race problem, the problem of distribution ot wealth or the problem of world government in an atomic age. Remember that all real progress is made by individuals who are not afraid to fight. Good luck in your endeavor and blessings upon you all! Hamilton Holt, President of Rollins College.

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Dean Stone ' s Message To The Class of 1948 Many of you have drained me dry of messages so that anything I say now is an old story. Von have heard me say that real learning occurs when the things you hold good are so much a part of von that they become the unconscious source of all von do. But the important thing, of course, is what you are. rather than what you do. If vou now see clearly the kind of a person vou want to be, you are an educated person, and if you have learned to see and act toward others in terms of their pictures of what thev want to be, you have gained the type of insight which citizens in a democracy should have. I hate to see you go. God bless vou. Wendell C. Stone, Dean of Rollins. Wendell C. Stone Dean of Rollins Message to the Class of 1948 Giving advice is too simple; receiving advice is both an art and a mystery. For most of us arc apt to take only what we want and to execute neat reasons for leaving the rest. Of course the sum total of good ad- vice always enumerates the same values of love, self- lessness, courage, and justice, and they are not always thrilling. If only something new would be invented in the way of values for life, virtue might be more exciting. But the same old values, vou will find, are the coin of the realm and will continue to be until we either live up to them or men are made over. I haven ' f known the class of ' 48 too well, for they have been seniors while I have been a freshman, but for them I wish courage for their ideals; wisdom for their choices, humility for their relations with God and man. May thev ever lead and join hand and heart, wherever thev mav be, to further the causes of Justice, Mercy, and Love. Theodore S. Darrah, Dean of the Knowles Memorial Chapel. Theodore S. Darrah Dean of the Knowles Memorial Chapel