Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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CLASS OF 1941 F our years ago our class entered college at a time which witnessed a new ach ministration progressing upon its first full year at Springfield. Since that time we have seen many changes, both in the stu- dent body of the college and in the faculty which instructs it. Our own ranks have changed. Some of us have been compelled to drop out of college life, others have come to us as transfer students. Because of these changes, our college life has been full and interesting — an experi- ence not to be forgotten by us all. We have, as a class, had a varied history both as to our leadership and personnel. That first year we were all in more or less the same pattern. We took the same subjects, formed friendships, and worked together in the knowledge that we all were new and making adjustment to a new ' life. As our college years have multiplied, we have come to possess a different unity, a bond of co-operation forged through un- derstanding and appreciation of the worth of our individual members. Many of us have branched, and are pursuing different scholastic and athletic lines of endeavor. Our class organiz;ation now is a reflection of the common interest of all of us, not only in ourselves or our different interests, but also in the class as such and the tradi- tion and men we call and know as Spring- field College. We have shared and enjoyed common experiences which will be treasured long after w ' e leave Springfield. The hectic night of our sophomore banquet, the junior prom, the class calendar. Freshman Student, year- book, and other projects were entered into by all of us to some degree, and appreci- ated by all to a large measure. These things we will, as a class, remem- ber as Springfield. The classrooms will present their own particular memories, as will those occasions which are Springfield’s own — homecoming days, freshman camp, and other events important to us. Now we are approaching that time when W ' e will leave Springfield and fend for our- selves. In the world about us there has been great change and, of course, a great war. What our parts w ' ill be during the next few ' years, none of us can tell. What- ever they will be, we w ' ill always remem- ber the four years we have spent here as a class. In the w ' orld of tomorrow we will be separated and, in all probability, many of us will lose touch with many of the rest. Yet, despite this, w ' e have before us the know ' ledge that for four years we have lived and worked together. Such an asso- ciation W ' ill never breed forgetting. Wher- ever we may be, and whatever we may do, we will know and remember that others of our class are striving to fulfill that des- tiny for which we came to college — to be Springfield men in the best sense of that term. — Arthur A. Charpentier CLASS OFFICERS President Raymond B. Cook Vice ' President . . . .Charles W. Christy Secretary Raymond E. Schmidt Treasurer James B. Delamater Cm]