Siena College - Saga Yearbook (Loudonville, NY)

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE My clear Graduates: The Saga has earned a high place among the annual collegiate publications of New York State. The 1955 Edition which you now present maintains the standard set in previous years, and you have much reason to be proud of it. We of the administration and faculty regard it as truly worthy of our College, and view it as tangible evidence of what our senior students can accomplish by their individual and corporate endeavors. We compliment your class moderator, Mr. Castellano, your editorial staff, as well as all members of the class who contributed in any way to its successful production. Your years at Siena College belong now to the past. Your official academic record will be locked away in the tire-proof files of the College Registrar. But all the other facts of your college career are now herein recorded by pen and camera, and are literally on open book. Any interested observer in one very pleasant hour can thumb these pages of the Saga, and review the outstanding events of the college days of the class' of 1955. To you graduates and to your teachers, what appears on these artistic pages, will be reminders of days and persons and happenings long to be treasured in memory. Because we are reluctant to have you leave us, we shall cherish this written record of your years in our midst. With this introduction let me assure you that I feel priviledged to write these lines - speaking as I do for myself and all your teachers. We view your graduation, as you undoubtedly do, as the accomplishment of a long cherished ambition. It brings you and your dear ones great happiness, and in this we wholeheartedly concur. It will mean for you the commencement of a new life - with its own expectations and surprises, its ioys and sorrows, its successes and failures. As we share your ioy, we want you to know that your going is not without its sadness. You shall be missed by us more than you might suspect. We wish you to know that our interest in you will endure and that we shall watch your future careers with much solicitude. We have every confidence that scholastically you will measure up to all reasonable requirements. That of course will be important. But our ioy will be great whenever we hear that you are appreciated and praised by those who have an immediate claim on your devotion and loyalty - your parents, your church, your community, your country. These were the broader and deeper lessons which Siena College meant to teach you. Your measure of greatness will depend on these loyalties, and our wish is that you will never fail them. For the rest, place your confidence in God, and go out and do your best. On this happy occasion I congratulate you and wish you every blessing. With kindest regards I remain Sincerely yours in St. Francis met-WW

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Reverend Bertrand J. Campbell, 0. F. M. President Siena College

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MOST REVEREND WILLIAM A. SCULLY D.D. BISHOP OF ALBANY MOST REVEREND EDMUND F. GIBBONS D.D. BISHOP OF ALBANY RETIRED