Wilkes University - Amnicola Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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EUGENE S. FARLEY PRESIDENT

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GILBERT S. McCLINTOCK CHAIR MAN

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE THE VALUE of your years in college has yet to be measured. You have learned something of history and literature, and many of you have prepared for a profes- sion or business. Some of the things you have studied will help you to live; others have prepared you to earn a living. If your years in college are to be justified, you must be able to live fully as well as to earn a living. Many a man has been measured a success because of his acquisitions. To live significantly, a man also must contribute something to those who have been associated with him. I am wishing that you may live significantly. If you are to live significantly, you must possess ideals and the strength to adhere to them in the face of discouragement and ridicule. You will inevitably asso- ciate with some who will ridicule the idealist as an impractical dreamer. To live sig- nificantly you may not be impractical even though you must he a dreamer. It is well to remember that every gain of man has resulted from the dream of an individual. The commonplace machine of today was but a fantastic dream of yesterday. The world of tomorrow may be the dream of the present, or it may be the nightmare that we dread. The nature of tomorrow depends upon the ability to change your dream into reality. As you leave us I hope you will take with you a faith in the force of ideals, and the strength to live significantly. MRS. EUGENE S. FARLEY