IX 



Response of Captain Allan Hancock to the presentation of the 



Commemorative Volume 



July 27, 1955 



Mr. President, University Officials, my co-workers, and friends — 

 this is a real pleasure. It is on occasions like this that we can relax and 

 come to know each other better. 



In business associations as well as in the home, it is important to 

 establish and maintain a friendly climate. There is always need in our 

 daily lives to understand and appreciate one another and to help each 

 other develop our individual talents and abilities. 



Let me say right off that EIGHTY is not a stopping place. It is 

 only a new beginning: The number of years involved are of no impor- 

 tance. They have come and gone, like j-esterday's football game. We can 

 say that it was a great game while it lasted, but today's game is the one 

 that really counts. 



Anniversaries like this are a time for evaluation. We know where 

 we have been, but we must take a long look ahead and plan for tomorrow. 

 There is work to be done. Retirement is something that has never 

 occurred to me, and it never will. The word retirement, itself, suggests 

 a state of stagnation. 



The will to work and accomplish new and greater things for our 

 mutual benefit is the battery that sparks our future. The electric power 

 generated in that battery is a thing unseen. So is our thinking a thing 

 unseen, but it has unlimited power. "As a man thinketh, so is he!" 



The future of American thinking wall make the pattern for our 

 lives. There have been many changes in our way of living during the 

 past fifty years. Changes will come more rapidly during the next fifty 

 years, Man is only beginning to discover countless secrets of nature and 

 the universe. He is employing only a small fraction of the intelligence 

 with which he is endowed. 



There is no time to reflect with horror upon mistakes of the past. 

 We must look eagerly forward to the challenge of the future. Let us 

 welcome every change that helps to build better men, better universities, 

 and better communities. ]VIay we be worthy of each other's confidence 

 and rely on each other to share the responsibility of creating a better 

 world in which to live. If we do this, tomorrow will always be better 

 than today. 



