Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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' . . Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions ' Joel 2:28. The streets were lined with the youth of America, filed with grief and torn by tragedy. The very youth that he represented mourned his death with shock and disbelief. Shouldering very young children, solemn, quiet, respectful, the youthfid crowd moved in rhythm v ' ith the dull beat of the muffled drums. The riderless horse-so very symbolic of a fallen leader-moved steadily forward, bearing a saddle which yesterday was filled by John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was the vision we saw when we said the word, ' America. ' ' He was the embodiment of the essence of youth, the very youth with which we identify ourselves. He was the defender of equality and justice and the epitome of world understanding. His was a life dedicated to the principles of peace and understanding. It was through his very efforts that the youth of America and of the world were encouraged to seek, and to know and, finally, to understand one another. Two peoples, two countries watch each other from either side of the globe. They stand facing one another, alike in brotherhood, yet separated by an ocean, an ocean vast and deep and boundless, an ocean there because there is no understanding. The ocean races forward, covering the similarities, destroying the brotherhood, emphasizing the differences. John Fitzgerald Ken- nedy sought in his every endeavor to fill this ocean with knowledge. It was to the youth of the world that he made his appeal, for it is to the youth of our generation that this world of under- standing, if created, will finally belong. He spoke of these intangible qualities: understanding and knowledge. And we ask what are these qualities, and where do we search them out, and what do they contribute to our lives? We profess to understand one another, our neighbors, ourselves, but then our so-called understanding is but an illusion. One can only understand another when each learns to seek behind the action and to examine the reason for the behavior— the reason one country differs from another. Once we have that reason, that motive, we are on the road to understanding. ■ ' »«»- ' |f j And what of knowledge? Education speaks not just of vast libraries of universities, nor of the scientific facts, nor of the laboratories, but it speaks of all that which leads man to an under- standing of himself and the world. It is the friendship of life, the art of giving, the pleasure of work, the fun of playing, and the spirit of enthusiasm. When man grows and learns, he does so through all these factors, not through one alone. The final result is a complete, a full, a mature individual who can contribute to the world of life. Indeed, education makes the full man. It is he who understands himself, as well as he who understands that person, that country, on the other side of the globe. m iXi ; . To this, then, let our 1964 ' Jamhalaya he dedicated: to those principles so fervently instilled in the youth of America and the world by the late President John F . Kennedy; to education, in hopes that the peoples of the world shall no longer be separated by an ocean, but joined together to make our world one of understanding, to make our youth men of knowledge, and to make this a life permeated with fulfillment and completeneness. . . . And where there is no vision the people perish. Proverbs, 29:18.