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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Mike Mansfield Speeches Mike Mansfield Papers 7-1972 Summer Issue 'The onitM or' - Rocky Mountain College - 'Senator Mansfield rP edicts Improved Relations with China' Mike Mansfield 1903-2001 Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_speeches Recommended Citation Mansfield, Mike 1903-2001, "Summer Issue 'The onitM or' - Rocky Mountain College - 'Senator Mansfield Predicts Improved Relations with China'" (1972). Mike Mansfield Speeches. 1053. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_speeches/1053 This Speech is brought to you for free and open access by the Mike Mansfield Papers at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mike Mansfield Speeches by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SUMMER ISSUE BIIJ..INGS. MONTANA 59102 Vol. VIII July 1972 No. 2 AT ROCKY'S 88th COMMENCEMENT ... "Banquets, toasts and sharkskin soup do not mean new order," the Senator advised in his appeal for a realistic SENATOR MANSFIELD PREDICTS IMPROVED view of China. "In order to serve our own international interests ... we have no further stake in Indochina .. and RELATIONS WITH MAINLAND CHINA we st10ul d get out 1ock, stock and barre 1." It was at Rocky's 88th Annual Commencement Excer­ With the lines or communication again open with cises that Mike Mansfield, u.s. Senator and Majority China, Mansfield predicted an opening of exchanges be­ Leader, made his first major speech on the Far East since tween China and the United States, particularly in the returning from his April visit to China, his fourth such fields of medicine, science, journalism, athletics and visit since 1921. the arts, and that an opening of trade will then follow. "President Nixon's recent initiative with China has "What we need is a peace of casuality and mutuality," been long over due," said the Montana senior senator. Mansfield said, "and it is up to you young people in "Having cut ourselves off from the largest nation on America, and your counterparts in China, to keep peace earth for a quarter of a century after misreading and between these two big nations." distorting the implications of the Chinese revolution, The Rocky graduates, under-graduates, relatives, this country spent billions for counterpoises to China friends, alumni and faculty enthusiastically received through Asia. Our involvement in Vietnam and our earlier and supported Senator Mansfield's beliefs of the involvement in Korea are part of the price of this con­ future. straint. " Mansfield said the United States has gone to ex­ tremes, both in our dealings and in our images of China, DEBBIE BRINGS HOME THE CROWN AGAIN and it has been one of our most costly miscalculations in history. MISS DEBIASE IS MISS MONTANA "We assume that the Chinese are unable to govern themselves, and that Peking would be directed by Moscow, Debra Jo DeBiase, a senior at Rocky majoring in soc­ but we are wrong and the differences between Peking and iology, was named "Miss RMC" in May and won the coveted Moscow are oreat," Mansfield claimed. "Miss Montana" title in June .. now being Montana's repre­ sentative in the September "Miss America" pageant. Debbie is the fifth RMC coed in seven years to win the "Miss Montana" contest - indicating that Rocky must have a wealth of talent and beauty. The other four coeds were: Miss Montana 1971 - Nancy Harper Miss Montana 1970 - Jane Opp Miss Montana 1969 - Jeanne Meek Miss Montana 1965 - Dianne (Feller) Johnson COLLEGE PLANS MAJOR DEVELOPMENT "ROCKY VILLAGE" TO FEATURE GOOD LIVING: PARTICIPATION IN THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY FOR Dean Ri chard Ramsey and President Lawrence RESIDENTS IS SEEN AS MODERN LIVING AT BEST S mall b e stow the h o n or a ry degre e of Doctor A small European style community, tentatively named o f Hum an itie s on Sen a t or Mansfi eld "Rocky Vi 11 age," will soon be built on the 50 acres of college-owned property south of the main campus. The· U.S. Senator said the Chinese are more concerned After several years of intensive study, the Rocky with internal improvement than on military advancement, Village concept was approved Memorial Weekend by the RMC and that emphasis is being placed on industry to help Board of Trustees. Preliminary studies by Rocky and the its 850 million people. CTA Corporation are now in progress concerning construct­ Encouraging "normal relations" with China, Mansfield ion phases, number of persons to be accomodated, zoning did caution that the U.S. should not go to the opposite ordinances and community needs. The land development extreme either - one of full trust and over-friendliness, would begin in 1973 and would extend over several years "but that a realistic handling of relations by the two and many phases. It will be at least two years before governments would reduce any political or material Rocky would realize any return from the exoansion program. danger." Conti nued on page 2 - 1 - Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 48, Folder 31, Mansfield Libary, University of Montana U of Montana Prof Helps Rocky "getting involved in the life of a What Daniel Webster said about co l lege is difficult to do when you Dartmouth Thomas Payne says about are 340 miles away." Rocky Mountain College: He said he had introduced him­ "It is a small school. But there self to many Billings residents and are those who love it." businessmen in the last two weeks and Payne, political science pro­ had found most of them "extremely fessor at the University of Montana supportive of RMC and the ideas be­ in Missoula and RMC trustee, is spend­ hind the school . " ing his vacation in Billings to help Payne, whose two sons have been with the RMC fund raising campaign. students at UM and Montana State Uni­ "I am extremely loyal to Uni­ versity and whose wife was a ConCan versity of Montana," said Payne, a delegate, received his Ph.D. at the Missouri native who's taught at UM University of Chicago in political for 21 years. "But I'm also dedi­ science. cated to RMC. There is an obvious He came West, he said, "to be need for both state and private insti­ part of the communities whose spokes­ tutions and as long as there is that men were so impressive." need both types of schools will sur­ He believes learning will never vive. disappear in the country, despite Payne, called to the RMC board Dr. Thomas Payne drops in college enrollments all over because of his academic interests and smaller classes, more intensive com- the U.S. affiliation with the United Methodist munications with his faculty super- "There will always be three Church, said private schools in the visors and a broad liberal arts base. needs," he says, "to think logically, country were always in "desperate "In fact a disproportionate express ourselves well and to under- straights." number of talented American leaders stand the importance of art and They have had to fight for ev­ and artists have come from small literature. ery dollar, he said. "But the liberal arts colleges," he said. "The young peop 1e are 1earning struggle has been worth it. " Payne sai~ he.cho~e ~o use this these things and they are doing so Payne believes the small private two-week vacat10n 1n B1ll1ngs because in manv different ways." school gives the student a chance for Story a nd picture courtesy Billings Gazette ROCKY VILLAGE The Land Use committee of RMC's Board of Trustees, Continued f rom pa ge 1 composed of three members, was appointed in 1g68. Re­ The current tnought 1s that Rocky Village would sults of this body's investigations has been heard at have condominiums, family units, a senior citizen retire­ each monthly executive meeting and each semi-annual and ment center, small shops like a delicatessen or a doc­ annua~ Board meeting since. Suggestions ranging from tor's office, and recreational facilities. shopo1ng centers to golf driving ranges came to the Paul Hickman, RMC vice president of development, and Marty Anderson, project developer with CTA, said the development would have the atmosphere of a European village with bicycle trails and foot paths rather than a multitude of paved avenues, and a village square with a pond and fountain. Though no cost estimates are available for the ex­ pansion right at this moment, financing will be on a step-by-step basis, said Hickman . "We'll open ~he development to the c01rmunity through l1m1ted partnersh1p arrangements where people can invest in certain stages ?f the plan," he explained. "Eventually we may even establ1sh a developmental corporation. We Rocky's property South of Poly Drive where new want to give the community a chance to share in this "Villaae" will be · bui lt. Old Mill still stands. unusual venture." The Rocky Village development would be "entirely committee . However, the "Rocky Village" concept will separate" from RMC's current fund raising campaign. accomplish three major things: "The monies raised in our campaign will be used for l. If Rocky Village should become a real ity, a current needs," said Hickman, "such as scholarships and beautiful and highly desirable new community will blos­ som where cockle burrs have had little competition for facul~y salari~s. The fund drive is in no way related to th1 s expans1on program, and Rocky has no intention of years; becoming a real estate firm. What we do want to achieve 2. Through a well planned owner-developer arrange­ is a village that will be a credit to the community and ment, the College may begin to realize some cash divi­ use College resources; land that will benefit both RMC dends from her valuable land holdings, thus supplying and the community and a source of continuing income to a partial answer to the critical cash problem; RMC through leasing of land or buildings." 3.

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