September 19, 2009

“It is nearly time for you to be off. This is not time to concern ourselves with nostalgia. As a matter of fact, I don’t believe that anybody has ever claimed that [our school] is a warm nest. But I hope, and I expect, that when you find yourselves involved in skirmishes on the frontiers of barbarism, which are not very far away, you’ll strike some shrewd blows in favor of civilization.

Some day you’ll come back and show us your trophies and your scars, and we’ll be glad to see you.”

Bill Gillespie in 1967