For ninety years the University of Kentucky has been a leader of education in the South. During the last fifty of those years, the Kentuckian Yearbook has become a symbol to those who have been fortunate enough to attend this institution.
The Kentuckian is not only a symbol of attendance at this University: it is also the mark of a collection of memories garnered here. Since 1905 the graduates who have left Lexington have taken these memories home in our book.
The graduating seniors of 1955 will someday look back into the past through these pages, seeing old friends, remembering the good times and the bad times when they were part of our school. They will remember both the moments when they were part of a screaming crowd at a ball game and when the same crowd was silent at Baccalaureate.
May the years at the University of Kentucky go on as they have in the past, not only turning out a better brand of American but bringing to those who are yet to come a love for our university. May they someday look back through their Kentuckian and remember their college life as those in the past are doing now.
On this, the University's 90th Anniversary and the 50th consecutive year of the Kentuckian, do we dedicate your yearbook to the graduates, the graduating, and those who are yet to come: a dedication to the past, the present, and the future.