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

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TEMPODIAN Eight Warren Stirung, M l).

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Nineteen Thirty (TrO The (iradi'ating Class of HWO: The time has now arrive.! when you are about to enter upon your chosen profession and engage in competition with those who have preceded you. In September, 1!F28. when you entered tin School of Chiropody this period was to most of you probably far away in the very dim distance. Some of you may have wondered if. because of untoward and unforsecn circumstances, it would ever be reached. Your surround ings were strange, the work was difficult and main incidents arose possibly to discourage. Now as you look back over the past months you scarcely realize tin-passage of time. You oriented yourselves so gradually and so unconsciously that your daily work, your affair- at the school became as it were a habit, and a customary part of your life. Your difficulties and discouragements appear as mere incidents. I 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 be glad 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 years ago. But I feel sure if you all apply yourself with the 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-practitioner- I congratulate you most sincerely upon your success at this time, and I wish you all happiness and success in your future life. Frank A. Thompson. Sei'cn

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Nineteen Thirty WO years ago you came to us as “recruits : soldiers in that army which, m in due course of time, would grapple with the affairs of life, particularly those of your profession. You put your trust iu us, trusting that we should drill and train you, your officer-teachers so to speak, for that commission which would enable you to accomplish the desires of your chosen profession. The fruit of this trust was faithfulness to your duties as students; the acceptance of your opportunities; and the attention to detail, which is the secret of success in all walks of life. You gave to us your appreciation; your kindness; your consideration; and your confidence, which, after all, are all that most of us are called upon to give. They are all that are needed to perpetuate a friendship. As teachers our friendship for you is an occasion for knowing the joy of humble service: the service of giving to you the best that is in us, each in his own sphere. The relationship of friends is that each gives to the other, and each receives the fruits of that which is more than either in himself possesses. The fight is not so hard when you know that you are not alone and that there are some who will gladly help if given the opport unity. Our lives are enriched by our association with you. and when we face you we should realize the tragic possibilities of human intercourse. Influence is the impress we make on the lives of others and from which the fruits of friendship spring. It is one of the greatest of all human gifts and a serious thing for a man to ask himself what he has done with this great power. Will our influence send you out with courage and strength to the battle, we ask ourselves? For two years you have fought a battle which is now finished and the first victory and song of triumph is yours. But you now go forth on that second and great struggle for which we, as your teachers, hope you are well prepared. Fight a good fight; run the straight race; lay hold on life,and the joy and crown will be yours. Warren Stirling, M I). Xine