Sam Houston State University - Alcalde Yearbook (Huntsville, TX)

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Dtuir fneiii s: You have completed the course. Ostensihh ' you are readv to run the race. You have vear by year laid aside much of the impedimenta which cling to those who know not. You should run a race which is beautiful to look upon bv your friends. I shall not wish that your advance shall be free from obstacles, difficulties and problems; but that vou shall be able, with that equipment which vour Alma Mater has given to vou, to overcome, to vanquish, to win. S ncerely, J. C. McElhannon C. McElhaxnon, De.ii! To the students of Sam Houston State Teachers College, I extend greetings and sin- cerest good wishes. Your college is now com- pleting her fiftieth vear of service to the cause of education. While fifty vears is comparative- Iv not a long time for a college to serve, it has been sufficiently long to crystallize about this institution a set of lofty ideals and rich col- lege traditions. These are handed down to vou as a glorious heritage. Mav vou pass them on to the next student generation loftier and richer than you received them. As you go forth from these classic halls to take your place in the ranks of men and women who are fighting life ' s battles, may you carry vith you your college motto; The measure of a life is its service. L. E. King, Associate Dean

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Harry Fishburne Estill, Litt. D President of the ColUie

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JESSIE NEWELL, DEAN OF WOMEN To the Girls of Sam Houston State Teachers College: You, as well as all other college girls have to face a challenge that calls to the best in you. There is a strong tendency today to dis- regard those conventions and traditions that have been our safeguard in the past. New situations are arising in which some of the old codes and traditions may not suffice; vet you must maintain standards as high as those of any age. How are vou going to meet these situations? Are you meeting vour responsi- bilities in college in such a wav that vour standard of values will be high enough for vou to make wise decisions when new situa- tions arise? George Eliot in her poem on Stradivari, maker of finest violins says, Ajilonio Stradivari has an eye Thai ' icinccs at false work an J loves the true. That is the standard that the college girl of today needs to have — an eve that winces at false work and loves the true. Sincerely, Jessie Newell Dear Friends: We have come to the close of another school year — a year which has held for all of us its share of pleasures and disappointments, its ever enriching ex- periences. You ha e plaved and worked and worshipped together. And to vou as To the knij hts in the days of old Keeping watch on the mountain heights. have come visions urging you on to higher hopes, to greater achievements, to keener appreciations of the varying values of our perplexing world. Because of my association with you there has come to me a more abiding confidence in youth and a more confident hope of the arrival of a still brighter day. For they In the consecrate si ' cnce l now Thill the cha ' .lcnge stiU ho ' .ds today. And It is they who shall teach us how to live in the world as in our Father ' s home, sharing all with our sisters. Wliilher go ice. lie it far or near. ' isions bright of Alma Mater shall abide with us, and in the memory sweet of a mean- ingful year, with renewed courage and con- secration, mav we now clasp hands and again chant, Follow, follow, follow the gleam. Standards of worth o ' er all the earth. Follow, follow, folloio the gleam Of the light that shall bring the dawn. Your friend, Mrs. Joe L. Clark MRS. joe L. CLARK, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF WOMEN