University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Earp! of jrudfeezi Ernest E. Howard, Chairman Howard-Needles-Tamen and Bergendoff James P. Kem, First Vice-Chairman Lawyer Sigmund Stern, Second Vice-Chairman Stern Brothers and Company Raymond W. Hall, Treasurer Hall Brothers Jesse Andrews Baker, Botts, Andrews and Wharton Paul D. Bartlett Hart-Bartlett-Sturtevant Grain Company Edgar L. Berkley Waxide Paper Company Willard J. Breidenthal Riverview State Bank Howard Flagg Insurance Exchange Building W. T. Grant Business Men's Assurance Company Joyce C. Hall Hall Brothers William B. Henderson William B. Henderson and Company Bert L. Hupp ' Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company Albert R. Jones Jones Oil and Operating Company James M. Kemper Commerce Trust Company J. J. Lynn U. S. Epperson Underwriting Company Arthur Mag Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers, and Fizzell Robert L. Mehornay North Mehornay Furniture Company Elliott H. Jones, Secretary and Counsel Scarritt, Jones and Gordon y

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--- ' : 0 ULU? ff. H. . Aff Wadi be We Porting Words to The Class of 1948 Clarence R. Decker, President of the University THE CLASS OF I948 IS THE LAST OF THE CLASSES BORN DURING WORLD WAR II. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST OF THE CLASSES TO BE GRADUATED IN THE OMINOUS SHADOW OF ANOTHER WAR-A THIRD GLOBAL WAR IN AN UN- HAPPY CENTURY WHICH IS STILL STAGGERING TOWARD ITS HALF-WAY MARK. IN THE GRIM AND FOREBODING ATMOSPHERE OF OUR TIMES, WE SHOULD BE FOOLISH TO BEGUILE OURSELVES WITH FALSE HOPES OF TRANQUIL DAYS AHEAD, BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WE NEED TO RESIGN OURSELVES TO INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE. OUT OF HIS DARKEST HOURS OF DOUBT AND MIS- GIVING, MAN HAS RISEN TIME AND AGAIN 'FO NEW VICTORIES AND NEW ACHIEVEMENTS. NO PREVIOUS AGE HAS BEEN AS EXPLOSIVE AS OUR OWN, BUT NEITHER HAS ANY HAD SUCH RESOURCES TO FORESTALL SELF-DESTRUCTION. OURS IS STILLA FIGHTING CHANCE TO SEE THE CRISIS THROUGH AND TOBUILD A CIVILIZED SOCIETY. OUR TROUBLES DO NOT SPRING FROM IGNORANCE: WE KNOW-THE WORLD KNOWS-RIGHT FROM WRONG. OUR PROBLEM IS ESSEN- TIALLY MORAL: THE WILL TO TRANSLATE WHAT WE KNOW TO BE RIGHT INTO DEEDS THAT ARE RIGHT. TO SAVE ALL, ALL MUST BE DARED! THE STAKES ARE HIGH, THE RISKS ALMOST TERRIFYING, YET IF WE WIN WE CAN WIN SUPERLATIVELY. WE STAND ON THE THRESHOLD OF WHAT, WITH COURAGE AND CONSCIENCE, CAN BE- COME A MAGNIFICENT MOMENT IN HISTORY-MACNIFICENT IN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, IN TRADE AND COMMERCE, IN THE ARTS AND LETTERS, IN INTEL- LECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL SATISFACTIONS. IT IS THE HOUR OF DECISION THAT CALLS FORTH THE DEEPEST RESOURCES OF OUR COMMON FELLOWSHIP. IT IS THE HOPE OF YOUR UNIVERSITY THAT YOUR LIFE ON THIS CAMPUS HAS HELPED YOU TOWARD THOSE DEEPER, MORE POSITIVE VIRTUES ESSENTIAL TO A CREATIVE CIVILIZATION. IT IS THE HOPE OF YOUR UNIVERSITY, AS IT BIDS YOU CODSPEED, THAT YOU DO NOT FORSAKE THOSE VIRTUES IN THE 'DAYS AHEAD--THAT, IN THE DESPERATE STRUOOLE FOR PEACE AND GOOD WILL, YOU WILL BE ON THE MORAL FRIONT DOING HONOR TO YOURSELVES, YOUR ALMA MATER, YOUR COUNTRY, AND TO THE ONE WORLD YOU SERVE.