Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

Page 14 text:

in memonam J. Stewart Burgess A.B., MA, Ph.D Arthur Cleveland A.B., A.M., Ph.D Rutherford E. Gleason A.B., Ph.D William J. Gray 10

Page 13 text:

To the Class of 1950: Did you ever stand at the mid-point of a see-saw and make each end go up and down as you shift your weight from one side to another? You may be destined to do that again. Today we stand at the mid-point of the Twentieth Century. The fifty years past belong to my generation the generation of your parents and your grandparents. We are proud of its industrial power, its engineering feats, its scientific discoveries, its medical triumphs. We are distressed over its record of waste and wars and selfish striving and civic apathy. But the praise and blame are ours. The fifty years ahead belong to you. They will be known as the years of great decisions. Those decisions and you will be asked for them sooner than you think can lift us toward the stars or dash us to destruction. That is not wholly a figure of speech. My generation is passing on to yours knowledge and powers never before possessed by mankind. What are you going to do with them? The course of change may be determined by the weight of your thinking shifted in one direction or another. That is the reason for education. Temple University has given you intellectual equipment and social awareness. It knows that A-bombs and H-bombs are, after all, only mechanisms. The world ' s elemental force, greater than any, is the spirit and the power and the glory that are within you and your contemporaries. You are the holders of all ultimate controls. ROBERT L JOHNSON President

Page 15 text:

oreu or What have your four years at Temple meant to you? The editors of this 28th volume of the Templar have no way of knowing. We wish we did. We wish it were possible to bind within the covers of this yearbook the individual keys which would unlock your happiest memories of college life. Since this is not possible, we have tried to present as fully as we were able a pictorial record of the main events of your senior year at Temple. We have tried to keep alive photo- graphically the convocations, the pep rallies, the dances, the con- certs, the dinners, the fun and comparatively carefree hours of your undergraduate days. Your yearbook may mean little to you now while your hair is still mussed from your mortar board. However, we hope that if you grow nostalgic as you grow older, you will get as big a kick as the little fellow below out of renewing college acquaintances via the Templar. THE EDITORS 11