I am prompted to say "Dearly Beloved. . ."
     I wish to say goodbye, to show appreciation for the experience I
have had, and to wish for greater future things.

     The years that I have been involved in the MUS experience have been
valuable to me, like gasoline.  They have gotten me to where I am,
riding down the interstate freeway of life.  I have hits some bumps and
broken some rules of good judgement, but I have learned the road and
have gotten used to being on the road, going from place to place in
my style as others travel in their peculiar fasion.  These years have
been part of the break-in period, for getting settled in a world of
action, with other people and things acting in a web of interacting
forces.

     I have learned that the key to freedom in what has been life's
tangle is achievement, to do what one can.  Doing allows one to do more
and choose what one may do.  Say a person has really learned well how
to solve work problems enough to figure out how much work it would take
to drain all the water out of a pool, with the bottom sloping down to
the deep end, or how long it would take for farmer Jones to plant his
field if he got a bigger tractor.  This person has the freedom to
choose whether to help his friends study, possibly for cash, or not
study as much for the test, knowing the material, and get some extra
minutes' sleep.

     A great freedom that I have come to appreciate is the freedom to
make mistakes.  We learn that it is often more important to attempt
even though one does not succeed.  It would be absurd to think bad of a
guy who tries to press 250 pounds and says "I can't do this."  The
pressure to succeed is relaxed so that a person can work without
pressure and thus move forward to success without burden.  I felt
better knowing that after doing well in a class for a while I could
afford to destroy a quiz or two after not studying because I had another
test to study for.  Teachers have a tolerance that I greatly
appreciated.

     Tolerating mistakes is a part of interacting with people, an
aspect of life everywhere and one that has been special at MUS.  We
have gained friends, something tangible and valuable, and we have also
gained insight into friendship, experience with how to deal with
friends.  I learned to try to help people.  To have a friend is to
share your soul with him.  Pieces mix and form collages, which is what
we are, patterns and shapes collected from the people we have known.
We have learned to interpret the pictures that ate persons.  We have
experienced human nature, learned how people act and react, learned
about the psychology of teachers, how they plan tests to be all at the
same time and are usually helpful about giving quizes when you have not
read the material.  We have seen that teachers do care, and I thank
them.

     The experience of interacting with friends will be valuable in
later life.  We shall go out and be friends.  To share what we are and
what we have experienced.  We have grown and will continue to grow, to
strive, to seek.  As Robert Browning said,". . .a man's reach should
exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for."  We should try hard even if
we don't succeed.  Success, more than likely, will come, because we
have been prepared for victory.  The future, of course, cannot be seen,
unless like Paul Maud'Dib of Dune your mind has been altered, in which
case life is boring.  Life should be a wondrous experience, happiness
mixed with despair, each has its place.  A valuable piece of wisdom I
learned from Leo Buscaglia is that "Love is learned."  We each have the
ability to learnd to love life and people.  I hope that you shall
consider this. I also hope that the future holds light and brightness
for all of us.  May you live long and prosper.