Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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In Memory of EILEEN “Bing” WALKER the Friend and Classmate who lives forever in our hearts Nineteen thirty-two offers this Tribute

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MESSAGE HEN Nike makes its appearance, a certain feeling of sadness, mixed with the excitement of the moment, is likely to seize us. One of the last ceremonial rites of the year has been administer- ed; and even in this unsentimental age, we breathe a sigh that the year has gone. We are aware of a sense of depression that comes with loss, change, readjustment to new people and new conditions. To the juniors it is the faint shadow of the beginning of the end falling with unexpected suddenness across their path. ‘Io the seniors, it zs the end; and although it marks the passing of four long years, it comes with the quickness of morning after a night of deep and dreamless sleep. We look at the campus, enchanting in its June charm, and at our friends surprisingly beautiful and kind as we think of leaving them, and the sense of loneliness comes over us that we feel when we close the door on a cherished friend we are leaving for a long time. At such a time George Macdonald’s words are very reassuring : “The old days never come again, because they would be getting in the way of the new—better—days whose turn it is.”