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Greetings from "Our Mabel"
TO T h e G ra d u a tes o f t h e W illia m H ea th Q u ig l ey C l a ss :
You came to us a year and a half ago, hoping, wondering— and yet with hesita-
tion— if you would ever be able to reach the time when you, like those who have
preceded you, would be present at your own graduation.
M any of you, at the time you entered the doors of our institution, wondered what
the year and a half would bring to you.
Some o f you have great ambitions as you look to the future in your chosen w ork;
others of you may feel rather doubtful as to that future; while some o f you perhaps
may feel that the little you will be able to contribute to society after all these months
will not be much.
A ll of us are like the weavers of the famous Gobelin Tapestries who, following
out the pattern of a well-known artist, endeavor to match out the threads of diiferent
colors on the wrong side o f the work, and do not see the result o f their labors. It is
only when the texture is complete that they can admire at their ease those lovely flowers
and figures, those splendid pictures, which in these superb tapestries have brought de
light to thousands who have seen them.
So it is with us. W e work and live, create and execute, experience joy and sor
row. Y et we do not for a long time see the full result o f our industry. I t is only
when our careers are nearing completion and we look back that we see how the pattern
of our lives has inevitably taken shape— how the many diverse threads o f our exper
iences have been cunningly woven into the texture of our existence. And when we
look over the completed design we will be amazed at the dullness of many threads we
thought vastly im portant— at the glow and brilliance of many we dismissed as insig
nificant.
W h a t has brought all this about? M any things— but one outstanding virtue is
Faith.
Y ou will never get any farther than your faith— it is the only thing that will
keep you going through discouragement.
It is the only thing that may be bent, strained almost to the breaking point, but
by marvelous recuperative power can rise again.
Rem em ber that the heart o f faith is never broken. It never knows when it is
beaten, and so it never is— for D E F E A T is always on the O U T S ID E it never is on
the IN SID E.
Concentrate on a principle and cultivate and broaden that principle until per
fected.
Faith gives us tenacity, and strength, and courage.
You who have spent the past months with us have the greatest profession in the
world— and hold to it like steel. You have been given the very best training any
school could give you to prepare you for our future work. W h a t use you have
made, and what use you will make of this, lies with you.
T h e crest o f Palm er is a sabre, a chevron, and three crescents argent and mounted
on gules, and point upward to a wivern or dragon. The motto below this crest is:
Palmer qui meruit ferat— "L et who has won it bear the Palm.
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Greetings from "Our Mabel"
TO T h e G ra d u a tes o f t h e W illia m H ea th Q u ig l ey C l a ss :
You came to us a year and a half ago, hoping, wondering— and yet with hesita-
tion— if you would ever be able to reach the time when you, like those who have
preceded you, would be present at your own graduation.
M any of you, at the time you entered the doors of our institution, wondered what
the year and a half would bring to you.
Some o f you have great ambitions as you look to the future in your chosen w ork;
others of you may feel rather doubtful as to that future; while some o f you perhaps
may feel that the little you will be able to contribute to society after all these months
will not be much.
A ll of us are like the weavers of the famous Gobelin Tapestries who, following
out the pattern of a well-known artist, endeavor to match out the threads of diiferent
colors on the wrong side o f the work, and do not see the result o f their labors. It is
only when the texture is complete that they can admire at their ease those lovely flowers
and figures, those splendid pictures, which in these superb tapestries have brought de
light to thousands who have seen them.
So it is with us. W e work and live, create and execute, experience joy and sor
row. Y et we do not for a long time see the full result o f our industry. I t is only
when our careers are nearing completion and we look back that we see how the pattern
of our lives has inevitably taken shape— how the many diverse threads o f our exper
iences have been cunningly woven into the texture of our existence. And when we
look over the completed design we will be amazed at the dullness of many threads we
thought vastly im portant— at the glow and brilliance of many we dismissed as insig
nificant.
W h a t has brought all this about? M any things— but one outstanding virtue is
Faith.
Y ou will never get any farther than your faith— it is the only thing that will
keep you going through discouragement.
It is the only thing that may be bent, strained almost to the breaking point, but
by marvelous recuperative power can rise again.
Rem em ber that the heart o f faith is never broken. It never knows when it is
beaten, and so it never is— for D E F E A T is always on the O U T S ID E it never is on
the IN SID E.
Concentrate on a principle and cultivate and broaden that principle until per
fected.
Faith gives us tenacity, and strength, and courage.
You who have spent the past months with us have the greatest profession in the
world— and hold to it like steel. You have been given the very best training any
school could give you to prepare you for our future work. W h a t use you have
made, and what use you will make of this, lies with you.
T h e crest o f Palm er is a sabre, a chevron, and three crescents argent and mounted
on gules, and point upward to a wivern or dragon. The motto below this crest is:
Palmer qui meruit ferat— "L et who has won it bear the Palm.
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