Kalamazoo College Alumnus (April, 1955)
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SPRING ISSUE • APRIL, 1955 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE KALAMAZOO COLLEGE LOOKING AHEAD ALUMNUS Volume XVII April, 1955 Number 2 APRIL 7-18 - SPRING VACATION 8- TENNIS, MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT OXFORD, OHlO E ditor, M a rily n H inkle '44 11- TENNIS, TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE 13- TENNIS, DUKE AT DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Published quarterly by the Kalamazoo Col lege Alumni Association and Kalamazoo Col 14- TENNIS, NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL lege, Kalamazoo, Mich. IS- TENNIS, PRESBYTERIAN AT DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA President of the Alumni Association: Albert Van Zoeren '23 16-TENNIS, TRIANGULAR, WASHINGTON & LEE, DAVIDSON, KALAMAZOO AT Member of the American Alumni Council. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA Entered as second class matter January 18, 16-TRACK, WABASH RELAYS (TENTATIVE) 19~0 at the Post Office at Kalamazoo, ~iichi !fan, under the act of March 3, 1879. Pub. 18- TENNIS, CORNELL AT ITHACA, NEW YORK hshed quarterly, January, April, July, and October. Subscription rate: One dollar per 18- GOLF, ADRIAN, HERE year. 19- BASEBALL, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, H ERE 20- TRACK, ADRIAN AND OLIVET (TRIANGULAR) HERE 21- TENNIS, CALVIN, HERE 21- TENNIS, CALVIN, HERE 22- FOUNDERS DAY 23-TENNIS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHAMPAIGN 23 - BASEBALL, ALMA, HER E TABLE OF CONTENTS 24- COLLEGE FACULTY TRIO. 8:00 P .M., STETSON 25- BASEBALL, UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, HERE FROM PRESIDENT HICKS 25- TENNIS, INDIANA AT BLOOMINGTON 25- TRACK, HOPE AND GRAND RAPIDS JR. COLL EG 1::, THERE THE AIMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND 26- GOLF, HOPE, THERE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 26- TENNIS, HILLSDALE, T H ERE 27- BASEBALL, CALVIN, THERE PHY -ED FOR THE CO-ED 28- TENNIS, ALBION, HERE 28- GOLF, ALMA, HERE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY 9 29- TRACK, OLIVET AND FERRIS I NSTITUTE, H E RE 30- BASEBALL, ALBION, H ERE EDITORIALS 11 30- TENNIS. ALUMNI, HERE YOUR PERSONAL SATISFACTION 12 MAY 2- GOLF, OLIVET, THERE SPEAKING OF BOOKS 14 J- TRACK, HOPE, THERE 3- BASEBALL, HOPE, THERE 15 THOMAS SCHIPPERS 3- TENNIS, ADRIAN, THERE 5 - TENNIS, HOPE, HERE NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS 16 6- TENNIS, CINCINNATI, HER E IMPRESSIONS FROM A T,RIP 6 - BASEBALL, OLIVET, HERE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN 17 6- TRACK, ALBION, HERE 6- GOLF, CALVIN, HERE SPORTS 18 7- GOLF, U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION, HERE 7- TENNIS, NOTRE DAME, THERE FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION 19 10- TENNIS, ALMA ,THERE 10-TRACK, CALVIN, HERE ALUMNI NEWS 20 10- GOLF, HILLSDALE, HERE 10- BASEBALL, ADRIAN, THERE 11- GOLF, ALBION, THERE 12- TENNIS, OLIVET, HER E 13- TRACK, ALMA AND HILLSDALE (TRIANGUL AR) Ht::Rt:: 13- MAY FETE 14- TENNIS, WAYNE, HERE Cover Picture 14- BASEBALL, H ILLSDALE, HERE 18- BASEBALL, TRI-STATE COLLEGE, THERE In line with the nationwide trend 19-20- TENNIS MI AA FIELD DAY, HERE of mixed classes in physical educa 19-20-GOLF MIAA FIELD DAY, HER E tion, this issue's cover carries a pic 20- TRACK MIAA FIELD DAY, HERE ture of the coeducational fencing 21- BASEBALL, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THERE 24- BASEBALL, TRI -STATE COL LEGE, HERE class at Kalamazoo College. For 25- BASEBALL, UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, T HERE j11rther information concerning the 25- TENNIS, Ui\'JVERSITY OF DETROIT, HERE women's physical education program at the College, turn to page 6. JUNE 4-5-6 - COMMENCEMENT Page 2 ALUMNUS I FROM PRESIDENT HICKS I During the last quarter of a cen Institute of Government new plan will make possible an tury there has been one significant With this basic premise in mind, inter-change of facilities and person change in the role of the college or the Board of Trustees and the ad nel between the Institute and the university. Twenty-five years ago ministration have been cooperating College, thus enriching and expand the sole purpose of higher education in the development of several new ing the programs of each without was to train youth for the future. service areas as well as broadening added budgetary outlay. The Uni Kalamazoo College and other liberal other departments so that our con versity has given the plan its whole arts institutions focused their entire tribution to the community may be hearted endorsement, referring to attention upon the students who more significant. There is nothing the merger as a "sign of growth" in e:1tered their hallowed halls. Our new in this thinking. Since 1934 the art activity of the community. job was to develop the cultured, the College has cooperated with City Industrial Relations Program educated man. Existing in an ivory Government through the Bureau of The third service program, per tower of intellectualism, we taught Municipal Research. However, the haps the most expansive of all, is him to think, to understand, to eval administration of the College now designed to bring a closer relation uate. We exposed him to the great realizes that it must broaden the between the Department of Eco ·reservoirs of knowledge, the accu scope of its activities in order to nomics and the industry in the area. mulation of learning from all ages. serve its optimum purpose. Since World War II, the Industrial We required that he taste of a Beginning in September, the Col breadth of subjects which created Relations Center at the University of lege expects to add three new serv Chicago has spent ten years and mil an understanding of our culture. ice projects to its program. To sup From these experiences and from the lions of dollars developing a pro plement our work in municipal sci gram whereby education can serve inspiration of a faculty scholar, he ence, we shall establish an Institute evolved an appreciation of life and industry. The Chicago plan has been of Government intended to make evolved in the plants of General a philosophy for living in a demo our College one of the leading cen cracy. Motors, Sears Roebuck, and a score ters of the country for the training of other leading industries. Having The passing of the years has in and service to local governments been tried and perfected, the pro brought no change in these basic at the grass roots level. Previously gram can now be made available objectives. The liberal arts college our assistance has been available through the leadership of our Eco still educates the whole man. It con only to the city of Kalamazoo. The nomics Department. Official an tinues to believe that a broad, gen new program will give help to other nouncement of the establishment of eral education is more vital in pre communities. It will strengthen and the new Industrial Relations Center paring for a full life than the train expand our graduate offerings in of Kalamazoo College may have ing in a few specific tool subjects political science, and will give in been released even prior to the pub or areas. It still strives to create a service training for officials of local lication of this issue of the Alumnus. studious atmosphere in which ideas government. Dr. Carl H. Chatters, become alive and challenging. How considered the nation's top authority The introduction of these new areas of service is not without ixs ever, in the middle of the twentieth on municipal finance, will join the attendant dangers. In our concern century this is not enough. Today staff of the College to work jointly as never before we must recognize with the Department and the Insti about community service, we must never lose sight of the major pur that our responsibility to society goes tute. With the establishment of the pose as an educational institution. beyond the classroom or even the new Institute, our Department of Kalamazoo College has built its students matriculating at our institu Political Science will truly come of reputation because of its outstanding tions. Kalamazoo College can no age. liberal arts program. It has long longer live alone in the beauty of its Art Center Program been interested in the education of quadrangle and fulfill its optimum A few weeks ago the College an the gifted. It has constantly strived purpose. To meet the needs of a nounced a cooperative undertaking to develop within its students both changing and insecure world and to with the Kalamazoo Institute of Art. ideas and personalities. At Kalama survive in an age in which Statism This coming September the Art De zoo we call this experience "A Fel threatens to engulf the educational partment of the College will replace lowship in Learning." In our desire system and our democracy, we must the Extension Service of the Univer to serve, we must always keep faith serve society more fully than was sity of Michigan in the art instruc with the great heritage upon which expected a generation ago. tion program at the Institute. The the College is built. ALUMNUS Page 3 THE AIMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Christian education faces two ad ethics. The ideal must face the test cation, the critical exploration of the versaries today, the creedal dogma of reality. The supremacy among fundamental values which sustain tism of certain Christian churches sciences is ascribed to the dialectic our culture. and the drift towards purely tech which unites Reality and the Good In an article entitled "Know ledge nicalized knowledge. Where a as the ultimate integration of the and Work" Max Scheler makes a church with its creedal formulation whole endeavor of learning. Educa threefold distinction between the controls education, free research be tion reaches its highest goal in a aims of know ledge. Know ledge comes impossible. The student grow critical orientation concerning the serves three main objectives. The ing up within this straightjacket be basic values of life. "An unexamined first is the development of personal comes a freak severed from the life is not worth living" as Socrates ity.