Temple University School of Chiropody - Tempodian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CHIROPODY Page Ten

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Nineteen Twenty-nine ’ O The (inADC vrixo ('lass of 1929: M The time has now arrived when you are about to enter upon your chosen profession and engage in competition with those who have preceded you. In September, 1927, when you entered the School of Chiropody this period was to most of you probably far away in the very dini distance. Some of you may have wondered if. because of untoward and unforeseen circumstances, it would ever be reached. Your surroundings were strange, the work was difficult and many incidents arose possibly to discourage. Now as you look back over I lie past months you scarcely realize the passage of time. You oriented yourselves so gradually and so unconsciously that your daily work, your affairs at. the school became as it were a habit, and a customary part of your life. Your difficulties and discouragements appear as mere incidents. 1 sincerely trust that only the pleasantest, memories of the time spent in your student days here will linger with you. I hope you have made life-long friends of your associates, that you will glad be to see each other at reunions and on other occasions. Some of you are fated to reach the top, some stay on the level grade, while a few may seek fields other than that they chose two ears ago. But I feel sure if you all apply yourself with t he same energy and determination in the future as you have in the recent past, and look upon difficulties as only problems to be solved, you will certainly achieve stations in life that will make of you worthy citizens and establish you in the good opinions of your neighbors and fellow-practitioners. I congratulate you most sincerely upon your success at this time, and I wish you all happiness arid success in your future life. Frank A. Thompson. Page. Nine

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Nineteen Twenty-nine Somebody said that if couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That “Maybe it couldn'tbut he would be one ]V1u wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. I!c started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. —Edgar .1. Guest. JFTER a tiling has been done, everybody is ready to declare it easy, but yAf before it has been done, it is called impossible. ()ne reason why people fear to embark upon great enterprises is that they see all the difficulties at once. They know they could succeed in the initial tasks, but they shrink from what is to follow. Yet, “A thing begun is half done.” Moreover the surmounting of the first barrier gives strength and ingenuity for the harder ones beyond. Mountains viewed from a distance seem to be unscalable, but they can be climbed, and the way to begin is to take the first upward step. From that moment the mountains are less high. As Hannibal led his army across the foothills, then among the upper ranges, and finally over the loftiest peaks and passes of the Alps, or as Peary pushed farther and farther into the solitudes that encompass the North Pole, so can you achieve any purpose whatsoever if you heed not the doubters, meet each problem as it arises, and keep ever with you the assurance. It can be done. And so it is with you. young men and women of this class. Remember to play the game in the right way, and try to be the ideal exponent of your art, keeping in mind that the smile of gratitude upon the face of your poor patient may be worth more than the remuneration of the rich one. If this school has succeeded in making real men and women of you or has aided you to a higher ideal. I feel we have reason lo congratulate ourselves that we have obtained our object, tor our purpose is to do more than merely to teach you your art. R. Ray Willoi ghby. Page Eleven