Worcester State University - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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J 1 1 SO TIG Class Song Outside the world is troublous tossed On stormy seas of fear; Our college days of glad content, In sheltered love, mid good friends spent, Give peace for study, merriment, And beauty through the year, On our wide campus white with frost Or green with April’s tear. And though in future time we, too, Meet struggle, sorrow, pain, We’ll not forget the goals we sought. We’ll not discard the ideals taught, It’s always here we’ll turn in thought Till comfort we regain, Then on and up we’ll strive, win through, And Forty’s hopes attain. Lillian E. Neu’field Roslyn B. Schoor Ivy Address Today as we approach the closing of our college life, we perform one of our final ceremonies — the planting of the ivy. This tribute we pay to Worcester State Teachers College for the courage, strength, and wisdom it has extended to us; to our teachers who have generously given of their knowledge and experience and who have guided us in the realization ol our hopes; to our loyal friends who have shared our troubles and joys. This tribute we pay to our days at college, our four years of both disappointments and happiness, which have gone to make up one of the most vivid and exciting periods of our lives. But in order not to sever the ties completely, we leave this ivy as a reminder of the class of 1940. And now witli graduation close at hand and the hour of leave-taking near, it is with regret that we prepare to say good-bye. Just as the ivy at first is but a tiny plant, small and undeveloped, so we began in the field of knowledge; and like the ivy whose waxy leaves unfold as it reaches upward in its maturity, have we developed and added strengtli and wisdom to our growth. As the ivy climbs higher and higher, gaining new vitality and luxuriance reaching toward the sun, so may we progress, seeking more knowl- edge and wisdom with our new experiences. The ivy has always been the symbol of clinging love, for us a symbol of the love we shall cherish for our College. May this ivy as it gropes its way upward, strong and rugged, represent our own successful struggle and final achievement. Winifred A. Sullivan

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Seniors CLASS OF 1940 President Vice-President . Secretary Treasurer Social Chairman CLASS OFFICERS Jean McCann Winifred Sullivan Dorothy Brown Lillian Newfield Mary Hunt