Today marks the end of the first year in the second half of the century in the life of the Auxiliary in this Diocese. If we are to be faithful interpreters of that life to others, there must be a steadiness of purpose in all that we do. We must rise above the difficulties and look beyond the problems that confront us; we must realize that growth involves change; we must know that the value of anything lies in the use we make of it. We must remember that after all what counts are our motives, our methods, our attitudes – they reflect our own outlook on life. Paradoxically as it may sound, the past fifty years reveal tremendous changes, yet there seems no change at all. The record of those earlier years discloses many of the same ideals and objectives, the same warnings and weaknesses, that characterize our efforts of today. It is conclusive evidence that those truths and ideals of life which constitute the eternal aspects of it always remain the same. It is true that we have grown numerically, financially, and I hope, spiritually – yet it is not the magnificence of glorious deeds that availeth, but the magnificence of a glorious spirit. And that is what I would have to stand out among us.

(Source: Rena H. Clark, President’s Address to the Convention of 1933, 1933 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 21)