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JOHN JAY JOHN History "Professor .. New Windsor, Maryland Auburn Private School "The trivial round, the common tase, VvTould furnish all we ought to as~." Ttakes a lot of grit for a young man to get through elementary, high school, and college, but it takes extraordinary courage and a spirit of stick-to-it-ive- I ness for a man to return to student life after years of teaching and other occupations. But our old pal and friend, Professor John, has done this very thing. After years of teaching Mathematics at Blue Ridge, he joined us in our Junior year and has been areal asset to the class of '25. Blue Ridge may well be proud of him, but we claim a part of him, too. Besides his college duties, we hear that Professor John has a home in New Windsor, where his family wel- comes him every evening and bids him Godspeed every morning. As a student he stands in the upper division of the class, and when he pre- sents a paper, makes a report, or takes part in a discussion one does well to listen attentively to what he says, for it is always worth while. As a comrade and pal he is one of the most congenial and trustworthy ones we have ever met. Full of fun, always ready for a verbal frolic, and bubbling over with innocent mirth; yet throughout it all controlled by a mind that thinks straight and pressing forward with a dauntless purpose . Oh yes, we are proud of our John Jay John and wish him all kinds of suc- cess for his future. [55]