Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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r r k. A -3R - ] — !.L» K ♦ DZDICA.XIOTV A SUCCESSION OF FINE TEARS SPENT IN FURTHERING OUR BEST INTERESTS, IN SHARING OUR TRADITION AND PUR- POSE, HAVE GONE INTO THE FORMATION OF A FRIEND- SHIP AND BOND WHICH WE ARE UNABLE TO SHOW MORE CLEARLY THAN BY AN EXPRESSION OF OUR SINCERE ADMIRATION A FOR Col. Hunter Pendleton

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As THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR OF 19 30 DRAWS TO ITS CLOSE WE FIND OUR. SELVES ATTAINING A GOAL AND SUD- DENLY LEAVING BEHIND US FOUR YEARS WHICH BECOME A LINK IN A PRICELESS CHAIN OF TRADITION WHICH FORMS THE INSTITUTE ' S PAST. AS, IN RETROSPECT, WE LOOK BACK OVER THESE FOUR YEARS WE FIND THEM TO HAVE BECOME A VERY VITAL PART OF US. AND TO THAT END WE PASS IN REVIEW THESE BITS FROM OUR MEMORY OF THEM, A SMILE HERE AND THERE WHICH BRIGHT- ENED OUR LIVES DURING THOSE TIMES. OUR AIM POINTS TOWARD THE ILLU- MINATION OF A SPLENDID FEELING AND ONE OF OUR TENDEREST MEM- ORIES—THAT OF OUR BROTHER RATS. r k A Ik 9a