Shorter College - Argo Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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' THE n ARGO 1 Dr. W. D. Furry President Pane Twenty

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ADMINISTRATION I il ' I

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m THE ARGO SENIORS BECOME ALUMNAE Vy HEN this volume of The Argo appears, the Seniors of 1931 of Shorter ' College will have become Alumnae and with diplomas rightly sealed and signed will have gone forth into a lasting relationship of daughters to their college which in turn becomes their Alma Mater for all time. For the view that one ' s college career ends after four years is fundamentally wrong. We have doubtless been making too much of Commencement. Once a matriculate, always a matriculate. The relationship which is entered into in becoming students is a life-long relationship and demands filial affection upon the part of daughters an undying affection for the institution that has been, after the home, the dominant factor in shaping their careers. As graduates of Shorter the Seniors of 1931 have become permanent members of a sisterhood who call their college, Alma Mater. In consequence of their having been admitted to the degree, Artium Baccalaiireiim they have become members of a Society of Scholars. As the Class of 1931 leaves the college, her halls, her teachers and her intimate and personal claims and fellowships, it is hoped that the institution will become very human, very real and the ideal of being true and loyal to it, to the life it has revealed, and to the goals it sought ever to keep before them will grip them with ever increasing depth and power. It is to be hoped also that they will always love and honor the college which has nourished and inspired them. To the college the members of the class brought much, carefully selected group that you are. To the college you have given much in leader- ship, example and service; in beauty, in art and speech; in friendship, fidelity and scrupulous honor. Shorter will always think of you as capable, resourceful and reverent. Commencement Day means a parting between a mother and her daughters. That mother is Shorter College. You graduates, members of the Class of ' 31, are the daughters; and no mother was ever more interested in her daughters than Shorter in you. For Shorter would be remembered by you not as a mere con- genial habit for four years nor a mere Institution of learning Shorter would forever be known by you as a mother, the mother of fair love and fear, and of knowledge and holy hope. W. D. Furry. Page Tu entu-one 1951