Kansas City School of Law - Jackson County, Missouri The Senior Pledge The Graduating Class of 1925 Kansas City School of Law Standing as we are upon the very eve of receiving our degree, we find it difficult to turn our thoughts to class history. The record of our four years is set down with an irrevocability, which wishes cannot alter. Our failures and our successes, our mistakes and honors, are all carved with clear-cut precision upon a single tablet of time. And so it is that we are thinking of rather of the future. To those of us who have worn the cap and gown before, there will recur this June that peculiar thrill which comes when the master of ceremonies pronounces the words, "You are hereby admitted to all the rights and privileges and responsibilities of this degree." To the others, it will come for the first time, hut for all it will be pregnant with deep feeling. As Seniors then of the Class of 1925, looking down the long vistas of the future, we make our three-fold pledge of loyalty. Loyalty to our Alma Mater! Loyalty to our profession! Loyalty to our class! Loyalty to our Alma Mater which binds us ever to respect true education in any form, which binds us ever to extend an encouraging hand to those who are reaching out for more education, and always ungrudgingly to raise our hands and voices in respect to those who have attained greater scholastic heights than we. Loyalty to our profession which hinds those of us who practice it ever to cherish the ideals which men like John Marshall and Edward D. White have wrapped about it. Loyalty to ourselves, which bids us to prepare and stand in readiness that if the time may come that our city, state, or nation shall ask of us some signal return for our inheritance of citizenship, we may be able to respond with a service as nearly perfect as human limitations will allow. And when, in the final administration of estates, the Supreme Chancellor Himself shall take judicial cognizance of our meager possessions, may He find in each tiny heap one shining piece of gold, untarnished by the fast-flowing currents of public opinion, unbent by the pressure of special privilege and disrespect for authority, and stamped with the solemn seal, A Bachelor of Laws. -Anne Sarachon Hooley, 1925. CLASS OFFICERS: K. I. Fligg, President G. B. Owens, Vice President Jo Zelma Smith, Secretary Jos. Cohen, Treasurer J. P. James, Sgt. At Arms ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Pat Scheele ====================================================================