Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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OSCAR ALVIN ULLRICH, B. A., M. A., Ph. D. Dean of the Faculty Greetings to All Students. That you love truth, enjoy beauty, worship the LORD, and be a friend to man, is the wish of your Dean, OSCAR A. ULLRICH. RUTH MORGAN FERGUSON, B. A., M. A. Dean of Women Students of 1939 and 1940. My sincere hope for you is that during your years at Southwestern you have acquired enough learning to broaden your vision, enough wisdom to give you self- control, enough friendship to make you sympathetic and kind, enough pleasure for true delight, enough culture to teach you reverence for all things holy. The possession of these great human values will enable you to find your place in life and do your work with joy and abiding success. May the best of life always be yours. Your friend, RUTH FERGUSON. ISAAC JOEL McCOOK Business Manager We pay tribute to him who has given Southwestern a contribution of executive service and personal influence which none other could have given.

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JOHN WIILIAM BEHGI1V Ph.B,D.D. President of Southwestern University This year Southwestern University has begun the Centennial Celebration, the first event of which brought to our campus April 13th and 14th outstanding educators, churchmen and other distinguished speakers from over America and our Trustees and hundreds of our ex-students and friends. This has been one of the most successful years in the one hundred. No other one year has seen the construction of two major buildings, but in 1939-40 the beautiful Cody Memorial Library was com- pleted and our students are enjoy ing the pleasures and advantages of the beautiful building. In the winter the contract was let for the West Gymnasium. This also is being constructed of limestone. Gym- nasiums are not essentially beautiful, but this building will be a work of art, and the stone out of which it is constructed will give it the essential stamina for a physical education plant. It will be nearing completion by Commencement and ready for our splendid group of students in the Fall Semester. Southwestern University exists for her students, and these buildings are yours through the years. Southwestern has the most homogeneous, happy, loyal and enthusiastic group of young people we have ever known. We salute you as Centennial students and promise our undergraduates returning in the Fall with others whom you will bring with you a splendid Centennial opening and a program for Southwestern ' s 101st year. Wishing all you graduates bon voyage in your careers and you undergraduates a jolly vacation rappy return in September, I am Lovingly, your President, JOHN WILLIAM BERGIN

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HENRY EDWIN MEYER, B. A.. B. M., B. S. Dean of School of Music Students at Southwestern University share everyday ex- periences of beauty which are not given to all men. May we learn before our college days are past that to do well in life we must learn to truly appreciate beauty in its various aspects. So we shall know that to enjoy sound, color, form, manners and moral recititude are all one in the art of living. It may be hoped that one day we shall reap from the habit of esthetic appreciation a fitness for life that is higher than that which we now know and place in the universe that is even fairer than the campus of old South- western in the spring. HENRY MEYER. MARGARET MOOD McKINNON. B. A. Librarian Aloha Students 1939-1940: For many years, I have been giving a warm welcome to Southwestern University students, and for as many years, I have been bidding them good-bye . The first was always a joyful event; the last, a much more serious occasion. But this June I will say Aloha from my beautiful new office in the new Cody Memorial Library. One would sup- pose that after so many years of saying Aloha , it would become a habit, just one of those routine duties to be per- formed in a casual manner. But this is not true. I will never get accustomed to saying Aloha . Always at the close of the school year, I am in the depths, a Slough of Despond, much deeper than Christian ' s. So once again I must say Aloha and gradually adjust my- self to your absence. MARGARET MOOD McKINNON. PEARL ALMA NEAS Registrar To my Friends, the Students of 1939-1940: One, two, three, four, — sometimes I wish there ' were more was chanted quite wisely in days agone. At the close of the school year, we have fond memories of happy days spent together. It has ever been our desire to join our energies to yours in an effort to find the enduring satisfac- tions of life. Your years of work and association on the campus can not have failed to make you appreciate that the story of South- western is one of the triumph of ideals. You may never reach your ideal; it may keep floating on and on before you. Real education discovers latent and hidden talents and capacities of the mind, reaches into the innermost depths of the soul, enlarging the heart, arousing ambitions, elevating ideals, and leading into the bigger paths of use- fulness and service. May you ever keep in mind that humility is the only door by which wisdom and greatness and peace can enter. I trust that you will go forward with steady stride and vision, making every stumbling block a stepping stone; that opportunity may overtake you fre- quently in the future, and find you always ready in cheer- ful good nature, moral earnestness, spiritual grace, and resolute will. Your friend, PEARL ALMA NEAS.