Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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MRS. RONDTHALER

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Salem Academy and College, Feb. 13, 1911. Mil Duar C ' lrh: As the budding Springtide of the year steals upon us, its deepest significance for you lies in the laying aside of the familiar round and turning away from Salem. Whenever I look into your faces, I ask myself the question — will you be women of purpose in the world, or will you let yourselves drift with the idle tide? If you have let Salem teach you that God is first and home comes next; that work is noble, whether it be the vocation of the home or some useful professional calling; that your brains must be daily cultivated and not permitted to stagnate in idleness; that books are your closest companions; that a charming face and beautiful clothes cannot atone for the lack of charming manners, of purity, of moral tone, nor of gentle, tactful kindness; that every woman in this century must not be in the world without a purpose, and that purpose, whatsoever it be, is worthy of the highest and best that is in her, and that you will find your calhng and your purpose in that state of life into which God has been pleased to place you — if Salem has taught you this, then we shall not bid you unwillingly good-bye — for the wodd needs you. With warmest love and interest in you all, I am affectionately. J ' 0- ' V- A. ' T (B. -« Q i aSkj