TO A WAVE Our answer to the problems plaguing our world, nuclear holocaust, drug addiction, apathy, crime and countless others, is to rely on youth-Not a time of life but a state of mind. The youth that is a quality of imagination, a courage beyond assertiveness, an insatiable curiosity, a love and appreciation of the sample and the beautiful, the appetite for adventure, the riskier with an entrepreneurial spirit, this is the youth of which I speak. Our planet is changing rapidly,-technology is advancing everyday, morals and codes of conduct are undergoing transitions and substitutions. These obstacles and challenges will not be met, by absolutes of theory, dogma or slogan. Far too many of the world's people assume the attitude that one man has little effect upon the world's ills. Here, at this university, we are being taught that many of the world's great thoughts, actions and movements have resulted from the thoughts, writings, preaching or actions of a single man or woman. Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther " ... he sends forth a small ripple of hope ..." King, Joan of Arc, Alexander Graham Bell, and millions of courageous and bold men and women have improved the lives of all of us. "Each time 1 person acts to assist one less fortunate than he, or stands up for an ideal, or calls out against injustice he sends forth a small ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million varied and different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." May each of us at this center of higher learning, VSC, use these years to nurture that spirit of youth, to gain in wisdom and experience and to act now when and where we are able as well as to prepare for future action so that we may join the ripples and create the caring body of humanity which will raise the level of life for all men...

A year book was published for Valdosta State College from 1925-1977, under the name The Pinecone. From 1981-1987, a yearbook was published called Milestones. Valdosta State University had three names during this period, Georgia State Womans College, 1925-1950; Valdosta State College, 1950-1993; and Valdosta State University 1993-present.