On our recent Class Zoom, Mitch was kind enough to share this poem he wrote a half-century ago on our graduation day:
On My Graduation from Yale
Here we stand, the relay of youth,
Passed to a world we learned to know
Like tender flow’rs of pristine Truth,
Brilliant in their scholarly glow.
Bacchanalian enrapture,
The mellowed wisdom of ages,
Was ours to savor, to capture,
In the legacy of sages.
Gourmands we were, we drank our fill
And then some, garnering each sip’s
Treasure vigilantly until
Fate would chance to unprime our lips.
Take now the challenge of the world!
Drunk in your learning, press ahead.
Pass on their dreams, courage unfurled—
Share the vintage of mentors dead.
June 14, 1971 – Mitchell E. Garner