Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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a mz. 7Z(H In order to receive the Sweet Briar seal as a stamp upon our diplomas we must k throuj h the Sweet Briar mill, working, playing, living, and learning together. These pages contain the chronicle of activities that will make us what we are at the very moment when we step up to receive those precious sheepskins. Happily combining study and play, we have romped through Freshman labs to find ourselves waist-deep in Classical Civilization, and added to that, enough modern dance and basketball tcj take up time that might once have been spent in making daisy chains. The seal recalls the honor system, a senior show, a Bum Chum party, a Paint and Patches production. Late evening cigarettes and gay week-ends are parts of this recollec- tion, too. At the center of this happy remembrance are our professors, who have opened new horizons for us, and have enabled us to probe new depths of human knowledge. The seal is very much more to us than an in- strument of legahty, authenticating a diploma. It is a symbol, stamped upon our hearts, authenticat- ing each one of us as a Sweet Briar graduate. It can never be erased, for we carry its imprint with us wherever we go, and it leaves a mark upon all those with whom we come in contact. Ko am quae meruit ferat. ... As we continue the line of those who have borne and merited the rose, we add an- other link to the chain forged by our predecessors — new meaning to the seal which will be stamped upon our successors. - tt f I

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A ?SiC. We humbly dedicate this book to those who have gone before us. Each brick, each text, each tree, is a symbol to the living memory of the founders, faculty, staff, and students who have given something of their minds, bodies, and hearts to create the college we know today. As we fulfill more and more of Sweet Briar ' s dreams we never lose sight of those who have laid the foundations for ful- fillment and have opened our eyes to the fact that the knowledge and experience gained but highways to the future, when they will enable us to understand and appreciate all in hfe.