Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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DOROTHY M. PRUITT Berlin, Maryland A small bunch of vitality, she has brought into our college a useful bit of vivacity. She receives her degree here after having studied at Towson and the University of Maryland. FRANCES ROBINSON Wing ate, Maryland A very quiet, retiring person, work¬ ing hard on her studies and extra-cur¬ ricular activities. She has followed well where others led. Her greatest inter¬ est lay in athletics, having been on the volleyball and fieldball teams each year. 23

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RAYMOND JUMP St. Michaels, Maryland A most individualistic person with a keen appreciation of music and liter¬ ature. He has returned to receive his degree from the first college in which he was matriculated. He was active in the Baglean Literary Society. ANNA LOUISE PARKER Salisbury, Maryland Easy to hold the highest in scholar¬ ship, she has twice won the title of the highest scholastic standing member of her class. She has also been interested in the administration of the student body, serving several times on the Stu¬ dent Council. 22

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A new day is bornl Yes, the rays of the sun have only within the last twinkling passed over the rim of the world; their light, reflected as yet from only a few bright particles, has inspired the babes of that dawning to seek a fuller and richer happiness in the living of that day. Toward the enhancing of that sought-after happiness, they have chosen to enlarge their backgrounds, and so to bring into use a larger scope of vision of that day and the next day ' s physically dead but mentally immortal. This happiness, they have found, is not only enjoyed at a cost. In fact, it is even remuner¬ ative in itself. To be happy in one ' s occupation is, indeed, the greatest happiness as yet achieved by mankind. That feeling of know¬ ing a thing well done; of being fully equipped to make the most of the day yet in its infancy; of elation at the knowledge of the fact that one is more capable of enjoying that happi¬ ness that comes into watching nature in its budding infancy with a knowing interest as it proceeds toward some useful end; these all add to the zest of life, but not one-half so much as the feeling that one has in some way (great or small) enabled the babes of the day to achieve more happiness than their normal ex¬ istence would bring into their reach. With the aims: to be able to live more hap¬ pily themselves, and to enable the coming generations to encompass its life in a happier medium, we, the present senior class, have seen fit to extend the term of our life ' s orien¬ tation through the addition of knowledge of the arts and sciences with the hope that in GO doing we may make the light of this day more bright by increasing the number of re¬ flecting facets in the jewel brains of the babes of the next dawning. Thus far have we been looking ahead. But there will be numerous fond recollections and unwanted memories as¬ sociated with the sojourn at this temple whose stately portals in their majestic beauty ever look down on us with pride in our happiness. Can you recall the first moment when you felt the movement within of some new-born plea¬ sure as th e result of a new listening to that unfinished masterpiece? Can you remember the intense self-satisfaction at finding that a great thinker of some past day agrees with your pet theory that all your associates have laughed at and scorned? Can you visualize the feeling of success at having imparted some bit of tinted glass through which some babes of tomorrow will be able to live with a greater happiness? If you can, follow that road to its ultimate end and be happy. Now, with the future a brilliant outlook toward the enchantment of life, and the past medium by which this enrichment is brought about, can we not say we are ready to live today? But the sun hastens on in its life-giving, glowing arc. Even now it shines above the mid-morning with a challenging brilliancy. If we are to accept that challenge, we must be off. Au revoir, if you, too, would seek such happiness, follow. 24