University of Maine at Portland - Reflection / Umpire Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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DEDICATION MR5. ELIZABETH W. EASTMAN The class of 1955 of Portland Junior College wishes to show its appreciuiion to Mrs. Elizabeth W. Eus1mun who has long been a friend of the college. She served the college during its First twenty-one years as secretary 10 +he dean; ihis official post was only a small part of her contribution to Me college. When Mrs. Eastman left the college last June she left wi1h us someihing of herself. Her love for and onuliy to Portland Junior College will long be appreciated and remem- bered. H is whh deepest sincerHy that we of the class of 1955 dedicate this, THE STAG of 1955, 10 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Eastman.

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A FOREWORD 1n the following pages will be found the sincere attempt of a few to preserve for many the cherished memories of this year at Portland Junior College. Speak- ing for the stuff, i certainly hope that we have accomplished this. We have spent minutes and hours trying to set on paper. in print and by picture, the memorable incidents of a whole college year. The time that we spent is relatively short, but it will have all been wasted it in the years to come the men who thumb through this book do not feel their hearts swell with pride and beat faster because of the bitter and the sweet recorded on these pages. When 0 child is born he has a unique set of God-given characteristics, and so every man at P. J. C. has his own set which, when combined with every other man's creates a truly strange but wonderful situation. This situation can never be duplicated; it can only be recalled by those who were a part of it. The purpose of this, the 1955 STAG is to create a memory that will long linger in the minds of the men whose personalities are iniected into its pages. Our book has no definite theme, but drawings of stogs are spread out through it. These animals have the combined characteristics of men and stays. It is proper that they should because the college animal is the stag. The stag will symbolize the college for the men who were a part of it. Therefore. the combina- tion is further iustitied. These stogs are shown in various stages of development, which indicate the progress of the students. Each stag has his own characteris- tic; together these make the college. Without these things the college would have oniy the physical attributes which contribute nothing to mankind. These stogs that seemingly romp and frolic through the book are the pen and ink conception of the personality of the college. This personality can be likened ta that of a man; as a man ages in years so does he grow in significance, and such is this book: it continues to grow in significance as long as there is a man to read it and be affected by its contents. That which has been said thus far is in the name of the whole STAG staff,- ncw as editor I shall say a few words of my own. I feel that the stat? has done all within its power to accomplish a goal that was set high, and this is the moior factor that will make the STAG of 1955 0 suc- cess beyond the staff's anticipation. I am certain for this reason that they have done a task which will be appreciated more by their classmates as the sands of time form great pyramids in the lives at all of us. Your editor, Thomas Merrill

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