Greeting from the President

We've been waiting a long time for you - all your lives, in fact.

This is what colleges do: each year they wait for the arrival of the new class of students who are the reason for their being. It is students - each one of you - who remind us of the educational and societal justification for our existence, and it is your arrival each year in late summer that rekindles our enthusiasm and energy and sense of purposefulness. Each year is a new beginning, a new kind of immortality that makes colleges such engaging and exciting places to live and work.

Everything that you see around you at this College has been assembled for you. The buildings, the laboratories, the classrooms, the studios and practice rooms, the fields and gymnasiums, the lawns and gardens, the vans and lawnmowers: these are yours. The people too: the professors and secretaries and coaches and cooks and the people who clean the windows and trim the shrubs. We have assembled them here for the sole purpose of creating the academic community that will provide you the educational opportunity you and your families are expecting. All these things are here for you, although they don't belong to you. You're free to use them, but then you have to give them back. And these people whom we've organized for your purposes, while we may say they are are here to serve you, they are not actually your servants. All of them, and you too, actually serve something else which is greater than your personal interests or ours. That greater thing is liberal learning which is nothing more or less than the habits of mind which constitute your engagement in the intellectual adventure of humanity and which, by the way, will prepare you for a lifetime of productive work and responsible citizenship.

Be bold here at LVC; take some risks; jump into the deep end of the pool. You will find people and ideas and purposes at this College who will be more interesting and more challenging than you may have imagined. This is your chance to meet them. Don't hold back. And don't resist or distrust the changes that your years at this College will bring to you. You are about to begin to become someone who is different and better than you were before. Welcome to Lebanon Valley College and to the rest of your life.

      Sincerely,
      Stephen C. MacDonald
      President of Lebanon Valley College

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