Westfield State University - Tekoa Yearbook (Westfield, MA)

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Here in the quiet beauty of our campus, we have formed lasting bonds of friendship, satisfied our thirst for knowledge, realized our professional goal, and gained many invaluable lifetime experiences. These experiences form a volume bound with a cover of memory — a cover colored by the feel of warm Indian summer breezes, and the particular fragrance of pines in spring.

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REFLECTIONS . . . When we, the class of 1961, passed through this gateway for the first time, we were bound only by a common numeral. Class spirit was merely a vague notion that we had just begun to consider. Four years of living and experiencing together have given the expression, concrete meaning for us. We are now a class in fact and not merely on paper. Ours is a class bound together by a rare amount of enthusiasm. It is enthusiasm often expressed in a reserved and constructive way, and often in a spontaneous and frivilous way. It can be heard in the roar of a sports car, cheers from the baseball fields, animated conversation echoing through the lecture hall.

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In years to come, when others look back upon the class from the outside, at the written records and academic achievments, perhaps it will not show up as strongly as the classes that came before and after it. They will probably mark only those indi- viduals who were outstanding in some respect. Our class has its share of these persons. But we ourselves will remember the class as a strong unit. We will remember with pride how we worked together to make of much diversity, the unity that sustained us in all of our undertakings — the harmony that will always bind us — the spirit of 1961.