University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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iKooert USurton, -Mt ouie TO THE CLASS OF 1941: During your four years at Carolina you have seen new important buildings added both to the campus and to the town. Strange, stark, and foreign though they seemed at first, they have gradually absorbed into the pattern of hill, tree, and sky which is characteristic of the beauty of Chapel Hill. During this same time the faculty has increased and the student population has swelled enormously, making more complex the manner of association and of organiza- tion for work and play. But these new elements have absorbed into the tone of informal friendship and democracy which characterizes our living together in the University. And in your under-graduate days forces which have involved individual and insti- tution throughout the world have played their disrupting part, all the more disconcerting as you have increased in perception and sensitivity. But you have maintained yourselves in integrity of brain and character; you have added to and enriched the life of the place. You represent the permanency which dominates conflict and change. You represent a generation as well abreast of its problems as any class ever to graduate. We wish you Godspeed with sincere affection, with high hope, and with sure confidence. Robert B. House

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DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM

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rrancii roster vDradikt In September, 1937, with the coming of the class of Forty-one, the University and the country moved into expanding days. The paralyzing depression and fear of 1932 were succeeded by recovery and reform. The shocks of budget cutting, falling enroll- ment, and consolidation had given way to restorations, climbing attendance, new depart- ments such as Art and Physical Education, and developing programs such as the General College and the School of Public Health. You have remained to witness a new crisis abroad and at home. World War, National Defense, booming production, and the third term are its marks in the nation. The Naval R.O.T.C., compulsory physical education for sophomores, juniors and seniors, registration for the draft, and the Latin-American summer school are among its marks on the campus. Whether in calm or crisis, progress or recession, the University has striven to help you while here to develop stable health, an intelligent way of solving problems, and a sensitivity to the external values of truth, justice, and beauty. She welcomes your entry on maturer responsibilities with confidence in your worthiness of citizenship, with good wishes for your enjoyment of life, and with the faith that you will return often to Chapel Hill. The University relies on you ever to cherish her life and defend her freedom to educate without fear and serve without special favors the democratic way of the common wealth and welfare. Francis F. Bradshaw 29