Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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I appreciate the opportunity made possible by this page of the Beacon to extend greetings and congratulations to the senior class. You are about to conclude your Suffolk experience just as I am beginning mine. I am glad that we have had the opportunity to learn and work together during this year. Your perceptions of, and your aspirations for, Suffolk University will inevitably influence my own. I hope your dreams for Suffolk find realization in the years ahead and that your own plans and goals for the future find fulfillment because of what you have learned here. A university is a community of learners. A community whose members are of different ages and in different stages in the process of acquiring knowledge, skill, and wisdom. Suffolk has provided you the environment and the resources for learning. You have had to provide the interest, the willingness, and the ability to fully utilize these resources. I am sure your experience here has required hard work. I hope that it has also been fun and fulfilling. I hope, too, that as the years go by, you find that your investment in yourself at Suffolk is abundantly rewarded and that your life is fuller, your work more interesting, and your relationships more meaningful for your having been a student here. Learning does not end after four years. We live in an era that invites, or requires, us to be life-long learners. If you have succeeded as a Suffolk student, you have learned, not everything you need to know, but the techniques and tools for future learning. Suffolk University ' s 75th anniversary year is an auspicious time for you to complete you education here. It gives an opportuntiy to reflect on what this university has stood for over three quarters of a century: opportunity, accessiblity, independence, excellence. It gives you, too, a chance to review some of the activities and accomplishments of those who were students at Suffolk before you, as you consider the options, the opportunities, and the ambitions available to you. Whatever endeavor you enter after graduation, you can look to the entire body of Suffolk alumni as classmates : people with whom you share the important experience of having participated in this community of learners on Beacon Hill. Daniel H. Perlman President.