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SENIQTl CLASS OFFICEIIS Left to right: M. Bond, Secretary; J. Batista, Vice-President; J. Turney, President; W. Tribby, Historian, A. Tnfun, Treasurer. If you've been a school-spirited 1952, will add another ring to their fourth victim of low business tactics finger. and have bought an ALOHA We'll leave. And there'll be a hundred and each year since 1953, it's not twenty-five destinations. difficult to trace the stated opinion of ourselves 'as we slowly trod toward 1956. Many of us will come back to Homecoming; Well, it's here: a year of retirement of old others won't return until they're honored as laundry boxes; of the most inclusive round-up the oldest living member of the Class of 1956. in family history of the various chairs, curtains, After years of inflating Wall Street; revolu- and bills scattered for four years on the campus, tionizing business and military tactics; increas- in Westminster, and along the road home; of ing the birth rate; opening international wel- packing away pennants, stuffed, monogrammed fare agencies; and going in debt for our chil- animals, fraternity membership pennants; of dren's education-after all this, we'll sit by a submitting, finally, Greek-letter jackets and peaceful fire, and record in our autobiographies athletic sweaters to a dry cleaning establish- that the Class of 1956 was devoid of flaming ment. geniuses; but possessed a multitude of On June the fourth, we'll leave the dust Iu workers. the room-out of habit. Before that, and long after it, we will often Some, as is customary, will have bars pinned have realized the need to pause-to seriously on their shoulders; others, through the proud evaluate these days-the days in which and success of a plot conceived prior to September through which we began to live. 22