Greetings to the Classmates of 1903 -

As I read these letters replete with accounts of various activities, professional, business, civic, social service, church and missionary leadership, domestic problems well handled, I felt that truly your college training is justified.

There came to my mind also a rhyme that had captured my fancy long ago in high school days.

'When all the world is young lad,
And all the trees are green
And every goose a swan lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and spur lad,
And round the world away.
Young blood must have its course lad,
And every dog his day.

When all the world is old lad,
And all the trees are brown,
And all the sports are stale lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home and take your place lad
The spent and maimed among.
God grant you find one face lad,
You loved when all was young.

Perhaps my memory has not served me entirely right and there may be a wrong word here or there in my rhyme, but it serves to indicate my point. I rejoice to find that for the radiant spirits of 1903 and even for some of their incomparable mothers the world is still young, the wheels have not run down, the sports are not stale, and many are off and away and around the world. The only reason I am not among those taking around the world cruises is because my purse will not permit so extended a journey, and I must content my self with just short trips. Like some others of 1903 my husband and I have had to spend a considerable portion of our inconsiderable worldly wealth in endeavoring to educate the younger generation. Now we feel that our part in that is well on its way to completion in our immediate family. Our son has obtained his MD and is now a resident physician at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC. Our little daughter is a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University. One of my little trips last spring was a visit to the University for a short stay over Mothers' Day. I had the real thrill of seeing Lois capped in Chapel for Mortar Board, the National Senior Honorary Society.

At Ohio Wesleyan they make a great occasion of Mothers' Day and the mothers are allowed the privilege of staying in the dormitories with their daughters. Hundreds of extra beds are brought out of storage and set up in the girls' rooms and needless to say the mothers have a wonderful time visiting with their daughters and with each other and attending the teas, receptions, dinners, breakfasts, given in their honor beside the pleasure of witnessing the annual May Day features.

The Chapel service on Sunday was very lovely. Of this large student body of between two and three thousand boys and girls perhaps two thirds of them of them were escorting their mothers all resplendent in corsages. The entire Chapel was one grand flower garden.

There were many other interesting college affairs, such as the near mid-night serenades for the engaged girls, and the spreads afterward, that I should like to tell about, but my time is up.

In closing I will say with Tiny Tim 'God Bless Us, Every One!' and I will add, Ever Keep Us Young.

Yours Loyally,
Clara Robinson Hand