St Pauls College - Tiger Yearbook (Lawrenceville, VA)

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President Earl H. McClenney and his Family President’s Message orricz or nu SAINT PAUL ' S COLLEGE LAWRENCE VILLE, VIRGINIA 2S8M February 18, 1966 The 1966 Senior Class Saint Paul ' s College Lawrenceville, Virginia Dear Friends: These are times of unparalleled challenges, opportunities, and perils in the world. There is nothing in man ' s recorded history even remotely to approach the changes, the progress, and the tribulations, too, of the mid-Twentieth Century. These are times of small wars and rumors of potentially cataclysmic holocausts. It is also an era that envisions The Great Society and the hoped-for leaps ahead in education, standards of living, beautification, and conservation; the wars on disease and the pollution of our waters and the air we breathe; the assault on Outer Space and journeys to the stars and planets whose distances from Earth are difficult to comprehend; and a whole galaxy of steps to insure man ' s dignity, equality, broadened opportunity, and longer life expectancy. It is not being pessimistic to link any of the somber and sobering references above to things which are part of man ' s innermost dreams and aspirations. The world in which you live—and in which, shortly, you will labor—is that kind of world. When Commencement comes there is happiness, and deservedly so. Commencement is in truth a landmark, but by definition it is also a major begin¬ ning for each of you. What is important is what the Epistles remind us: He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning. As the next group of undergraduates who will shortly enter that splendid family of Saint Paul ' s Alumni, permit me to speak, first, of what Saint Paul ' s has sought to do on your behalf as future citizens and, second, something of your continuing relationship to Alma Mater—a relationship which entails obligations. Just as the Nation and the world community can, if man ' s avarice and prone¬ ness to conflict can be contained, reach near-Utopian peace and prosperity, so is Saint Paul ' s College on the near verge of great growth and expansion for the benefit of the ever-burgeoning waves of college-bound youths. The College has endeavored to do more than teach you by rote; it has sought to provide you with a broadening, liberalizing education. It has tried to infuse you with a progressive maturity that has nothing to do with the calendar, but a maturity in intellectual outlook, in moral certitudes, in spiritual values. Having said that, I come now to the question. What Next?, after that day in May when the bachelor ' s degree is conferred upon you to the Glory of Almighty The 1966 Senior Class Page 2 February 18, 1966 God. Saint Paul ' s, like all colleges, must and, I am confident, will have the continuing and increased financial support of those who have been trained here in skills, attitudes, and values during their undergraduate years. We, for our part, have too much faith in your thinking processes, which have been honed in your years on-campus, to belabor the point of the absolute necessity of Alumni support, unwanlng interest, and financial assistance. I will add only this: The spirit of duty and the sense of opportunity presented by those who observe the practice of tithing must pervade every alumnus. Each one who has lived, learned, and in turn left Saint Paul ' s must confess a shortcoming which I do not, in fact, believe exists. In any case, you should be not only grateful for the education which you received, but you must be greatly concerned with broadening the chances for sound education for today ' s and tomorrow ' s youths of all classes, creeds, and colors. Wherever you may be or whatever you may be doing, the lasting good will of Saint Paul ' s will be with you steadily. May God go with you all, all the way. Earl H. McClenney President EHM:ebm 9