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rradition? volden Anniversa Until recenlly, such concepts as theme for the weekend. Speakers will heritage and tradition have been out of include cardiac pacemaker inventer, fashion. Ancient moorings or interest Dr. Wilson Greatbatch, an d a NASA in them have often been $Cen as representati ve - ostensibly an astronaut irrelevant or hampering progress. Per· not involved with the space shot sched· haps the resultant loss of a sense of uled that week . Mainly, their lectures place and belonging, together with will center on practical spinoffs of the drum·beating for America's up·coming space program with discussion of future bi-centennial are behind rekindling in· explorations offered by the astronaut. terest in the past, in our institutions Atumni will receive detailed program and the people who brought them and registration form in Apri l. into being. Coincidently, this spring the Alumni The approach of Houghton's Golden Assoc iation has produced the first Anniversary of awarding degrees, con· College Alumni Directory. This 192· curring with celebrations by the fi rst page book is available to alumni now 50·year class has heightened the !lense by sending $2.00, name and address to of history and destiny on campus and Office of Public Relations, Houghton we want to share some of that feeling Call N.Y. 14744. with you via this special issue of MILIEU, largely devoted to three fea· THE COVER: Members of the first grad tures that capture something of the u ~ ting dus are shown as they appeared in spirit of 1925, or capsulize the histories the ~ond yurbook:. To identify them and compue 1925 photo\ with current pitlures of those first degree candidates. Dr. match the small and tapitalleuers appearing Jo Rickard, a Hough~on resident and adjacent to each photo with the leuer allhe member of the 1925 class, has research· end of each biographical sketch, [lages 6·9. cd and created two of these articles. 1926 graduate Paul Steese has done it .\\11 ~ 1811 Houghtol1CollcgcBulictin piece on Houghton sports of the 20s. You'll sense something of the intense March , 1975 Vol. l. No. I loyalty that the Houghton of that time engendered, and learn about the diver· Ed itor. De.]n LiddicJ.,. gent an d fascinating path s followed by Edit ur;'11 f\ 5) i~lants those first graduates, 15 of whom Alumni and Features - survive . Diane P. Springstead To honor the Class of 1925, and Sports - William Greenway mark this historic moment for the college, major pl ans are underway for Summer Alumni Weekend celebrations. On cam pus recognition will be made CONTENTS during the spring and a segment of the , 975 Commencement convocation will Tradition, Golden Anniversaries commemorate the anniversary. and the Founding Fathers. 2 Summer Weekend, July 10·13, will begin with a Thursday night program 50 Years Ago - The Way We Were. 4 featuring a WATTS line enabling at tend· "The Great Limitless Adventure". 6 ing members of the 50·year class to telephone friends not presen t. Through· Highlander Sports. 10 out the weekend, the line will be available for all visiting al umni to call Alumni News 12 classmates. Saturday'S reunion lunch· cons will emphasize this service. The College News 14 Alumni Board has chosen a space alld tke gUt/lldillg latkef's Research for this MILIEU turned up many contrasts between the Houghton of 50 years ago and the coll ege today. Facili ties have quadrupled, faculty is up eight limes, enrollment has moved from 124 to 1,274, number of majors has more than tripled,library collection has multiplcd 22 times, rive degrees arc offered instead of two. Student wage5 have moved from 2O-cen ls an hour to $2.00, but costs have risen proportionately. A 1925 brochure said, "expenses for a year need not bined with building Chri stian charac ter 1884, the campus looked like the exceed $350." This fall costs will and service, but has intensified its picture at the right. Below arc viem approach $3,500 a year. efforts. Through the several campus of Kinney House in nearby Cuba, N.V., Perhaps most significantly, Hough· ministries, literally hundreds of off· where the first Skip Day was held, and ton has nOI only remained true to the campus li ves are touched weekly. Such President Luckey's office as it looked ideal of high aca demic standards com- ministries are budgeted above $21,000. when Helen and Rachel Davison work· Nevertheless, today would not be ed there as students in th e early 205. possible without yesterday's pioneers. T he English Di vision Chairman occupies Dr. Rickard calls them, " persons with· that office now. Cl ass president Mark OUI whom there would have been no Bedford is shown with the Willard Houghton." Above, Willard J. Hough· Houghton Monument which the 1925 ton was the first of these people. Less class cQllSlructed. It was moved to its than 40 years arter his prayerful per present site in 1968 after a campus sistence opened the seminary doors in in tersection was widened. New .ANgleS ON Old lllfoges - 0 pcrsOl101 lifOI/O "Our col leges are palaces compared can profoundly influence the future. to these places." That's the way one Being "back at it" is a better feeling of my five compatriots on our recent than I'd anticipated. Special thanks Rotary Group Study Exchange to the to people here whose extra work made Indian sub-continerit reacted as we my eight-week junket possible, and visited a major campus ncar Calcu tta. whose efforts kept the inevitable back· The editor retums to work with a log to manageable proportions upon multitude of impressions, of feelings my return. Diane Springstead and and of new or revised awarenesses. Dr. Jo Ri ckard deserve most o f the Certainly a fresh appreciation for what credit for thi s issue. Finally, a word God has given Houghton College, her o f appreciation to Houghton's admin· students, faculty and staff since 1925, istration and particul arly to Dr. Robert rates high among these. Another real Luckey for encoura ging me to apply ization is of the impact religion has for to the GSE program and granting me good or ill upon a cul ture, even in wh at necessary leave after I was selected for arc perceived to be secular areas. Anew the team. Obviously, thanks to Rotary I see ways in which Christianity and International. The lour of District 325 its spinoffs have contributed postively covered nearly 30,000 miles, afforded to assu mptions and goals of what has unique opportunities for meeting un· been called the American way. In this forge liable people, fostering inter· context, I retum more committed to the national understanding, and learning, idea of Christian higher education and learning, learning. A personal plus was the validity of the notion that Hough the chance to revisit my native land. ton College - through its graduates - Now to things al hand. - D.A.L. F ifteen of our twenty in the class marched around the streets wi th local of '25 have reached the fiftieth year high sc hool rei nforcements and paraded since we received Houghton's first to the railroad station in excited ex A. B. :' and B.s. s. Now we pause to re pectancy. President Luckey would be view that tremendous occasion in June on that train, nol wearing a wreath of 1925, tremendous for us and tremen / 50 ~ victory, but deserving one. Inlo those dous for the coll ege, and to re-experi If " coaches we squeezed, to become part ence through reminiscences the four I[ Vears Ago j / of the procession of triumph up college (or fiven yea rs of those ea rl y 20's hill. Stalwart students would carry the when our lives and th at of the college president off the train on their should were intertwined in purpose and accom , 'Cite Wall We Ii. ers and become the horses to draw him plishment. to the chapel. No wonder pomp and circumstance ~ ~ Were t!-. College and vi ll age fil led the chapel, characterized us. No wonder we proud· and the recently all-but-crushed presi ly displayed our caps and gowns in dent was on his knees in thanksgiv ing chapel from Apri l 25 on. No wonder to God. The Wesleyan Church Board we had a class-day parade from the had approved application for the pro campground to Ihe triangle at the top meeting that evening we listened from visional charter for a liberal arts col of the college hill while pages in fuJi back seats in the chapel to comments lege, 14-1. regal atti re led Ihe way and white dress on the absent seniors. How could they have done other es and long crimson scarves gleamed Our fi rst for which there was proba wise? Wh o cou ld ignore 100 telegrams from Ihe persons of cleven ladies, and bly no secon d was th at week wh en th e from Houghton and elsewhere, sent white shirts and crim son ti es from president and other faculty members afte r word had gone out tha t the those of nine men. indulged themselves in the pleasure of ch urch might not approve, after deter Just one hundred years before our feeding and en tertaining th e firs t class mined local citizens and a picked dele graduation Willard J. Houghton was to get degrees. See who we were! If gation of students arrived 011 Church born near this very spot, and when de there was any hole in that week, we headquarters in Syracuse, and when dicating a monument to his memory managed to fill it ourselves.