An Ode to McKelvy, by Ellis Finger

This capped off Ellis’s toast to McKelvy last Friday, and I repeated it for the crowd at the Marquis Founders Dinner:

An Ode to McKelvy

 

Leopards forever, far from the quad

Skeptical and questioning, with a challenging nod

To roads less traveled, to ideas so bold,

To vistas unknown, to thresholds of gold.

 

You gave us our soul and brightened our halls

The life of the mind always enthralls

When McKelvyites gather with jubilant calls

For discourse, debate, intellectual brawls,

Of such vigorous force that quickly installs

A beguiling glow from within these walls

And a quality of self that rises, not falls.

 

So settle your thoughts and raise your glass,

Muster your pride and show some class

Summon your tales and cherish your past

Reach to your memories and hold them fast

Salute these halls where you had such a blast

And say a toast to McKelvy: long may she last!

 -Ellis Finger