To One Whose Life Stands Equal to This Theme ...
With ease exalted to this honored seat, By having held himself in low esteem Unmeanly, is one whose contribution meet, For now eight years, does equal well the theme These covers guard, like hard-mined stones unpriced TI1at stud his crest with Character, Culture, Christ. Triply set within his life, but lustering All as one, each shaft-found star its splendor Tells in rapid-blushing fires lit deeply At the strike of pure light on inner worth. By labor of his office in BreseeAnd duties everywhere-is the trio Marked with many a facet fine and fitting To this honor; such tasks oftimes weigh down His desk 'til it is cluttered with a heap Of forms for dorms or sidewalks or estate. From bank to chapel with monitary tone, Researching for progressive height, must he Oft turn to learn the outcome of income And outgo e'er knowing how to go in To a newly-balanced ledger again. In earnest, such a cycle he pursues; So is his work an upward spiraling Course stamped often with his autograph Which signifies the circles he must run in. But all the pressing duties of his post Do not forbid a constant smiling mien Nor fail his simple understanding of Each poor man's problem lined before his door; Nor yet by such is he prevented from A firm devotement to his house and church, And such close and selfless contact with each Classman that he knows for him a nickname All his own; and students in return such Titles as these to his figure may join: Prophet of Pennies and Count of the Coin. In all these rays reflected from his crest There are disclosed those traits of insight, aim, And constancy which light-and end-our quest For one whose life this theme fits to his name; Him thus found, we dedicate this yearbook To our Business Manager, Harry Craddock.
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