Saturday, May 30, 2015

Letter from Marion Walker '72 - May 2015


Now the question we get is...what if you got the keys, who

is on the Board, who are the students, what faculty do you

have and how do you make a dying institution come back to life?

 

First, we do not have all of the answers this minute,

but closure certainly has none.

 

Second, there is a ground swell of support to try

to sustain the College- a property that does not have

the same value as any other type of place.

 

Third, there are women with, energy, yes, but a

life born in the bowels of that glorious place-

that took power into lives from there that will not die,

nor let it go through negligence. 

 

So, while the details of the life of the college

cannot be known this minute, this night,

all she gave us can make us know this is not her

last breath - not so long as we breathe and give

air back to the sails she taught us to set.

 

Pity the end of any mediation. May the current Board

accept out thanks for their efforts and then dare any

to come in and do any better. If the second wave fails,

the rest cannot be any worse.

 

But, this entire event could be just the disruption in how

things have been done that makes the change for

longevity the logical and sustaining step.

 

Let us talk. not sue, think and not dig in,

believe and not scorn, and look at the communities,

and institutions In our country who need our graduates.

Let's do this!

 

Marion Walker

Class of 1972

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