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(g,Jenwooa (;ll~ge BIULLETIN SUMMER, 1965 BU'LLETI1N SUMMER. 1965 TABLE OF CONTENTS 'Time and Tempest, , , Your Challenge' 3 Congn·.sswoman Mink Gives Commrncement Address Lindenwood HOllors Two at Commencement 5 Honorary Degrees for Robert Hyland, Mrs. Mink Baccalaureate Address 6 Dr. George i\Iauze Heard by Seniors Wesley L. Johnson Dies 6 College Lost's Dire<:tor; Funeral in St. Charles Reunion '65 7 Pictorial Record of Day Spent at Lindenwood: Mrs, Reed Honored Mot]lers Club Organized 9 Kansas City Group Fonn First Supporting Organiution Beta Chi's Annual Horse Show 10 Alumnae Auociation OfIiccrs MARY JEAN DuHADWAY CRAIG '41 Ivt'nl Sponsored for BARBARA RINGER HAMILL '32 Stable Building Fund MARJE KOCH BRUNDIGE '49 Professors Retire HELEN MEYER I'UERHOFF 'oil Two 11 Professors Isidor and Rehg Alumnae Council Complete Tenure at College LILLIAN NITCUER '33 On Campus 12 DJANE STANLEY '59 LOUISE MeGRAW HODGSON '-17 News of Events Taking Place SHARLENE AGERTEI\ '52 During Spring, 1965 MARGUERITE METZGER HALL '34 GLORIA BAGWELL RICHAIlDSON '59 New Alumnae Officers 14 HELEN ROPER STARK J28 RUTH WERTZ MORTON '27 More About Those You MARGARET BURTON JONES '-18 Have Elected to Serve Alumnae on the Go Annual Gi"lm~ Chairman '65 Clubs Conclude Year, MARIE KOCl:t BRUNDIGE '49 Make Plans for Next Fall Alumnae on LC Board of Directors Alumnae Gift Report 17 RUTH STEEDMAN WRIGHT '24 NELL QUINLAN REED '09 ews from the Classes 22 A"umn.e Exccuth., SecretaT)' BEATRICE R.. CLARK Class Secretaries Promote ]I.'Iore Facts About Alumnae ON THE COVER While Commencements may have appearances of being the same "story," each one is different. Each Commencement involves a different graduating class, different graduates. Expressions of accomplishment and happiness are always in evidence. Bylle Snyder, presi dent of the student body in 1964-65, demonstrates her happiness-and it's equally shared by her parents. Published bi·monthly by Lindc"..'ood Coll~ge. Sl. Chorl~s, Missouri. Sc-cond·c1ass mailing prhilcg~s lluthO<l«d by Ihc Post OIH~c, 51. Ch>rJcs, Misso"ri, und~r the Act of Aug".. 2 12. 1912. Volume 138. Number 9 . which threatens our countr)' with involvement in r war, casts the mushroom doud of disaster on cvcry ~ human being who lives and breathes in this worlel. Never before in the history of IlHlll h::ls war been a person::ll decision. It is no longer something of frivolity, where nations can tcst their strength and power and only a few be sacrificed. The entire civilized world as Time and tempest are "... the challenge of your we know it tod::ly stands on the threshold of annihila coming gener<ltion," United States Representative Patsy tion should we ever le<lve to others the business of OUf T. Mink of Hawaii fold Lindenwood College's Class of problems in the world," the congresswoman declared. 1965. The same genius of discovery which has l1lilde "The education you have received," she said, "is "possible our new way of life," the Commencement but the first pedestal upon which you are to climb speaker pointed out, is capable of destroyi ng. "Let us and reach for the fruits of learning, each different and not only glory at the men who wilt reach the moon, the next mare lontalizing, as you work your way but let us take the time to meditate upon the problems through life's abundant orchard. Your harvest time of the world which yet need to be solved if this world will be only as meager as your energy-the seeds shall not perish. with which yOli replenish the earth is both heritage and posterity," 'The moral revolution that is jllst emerging is a Representative l'I'link, the first woman from Hawaii new conception of man's responsibility for each other to be elected to Congress and the nrst of Oriental and to each other. The fruits of our intellect, and the descent to receive this honor, in giving this year's long exciting journeys into scientific endeavor leaves commencement address, says she considers these "... us but one major course of unchartered exploration, indeed great times in whit'h to live. New opportunities that uf finding the seeds in man's minds to germinate for work and creativity arc opening each day. 1 know a real and lasting peace, based upon brotherhood and that each of you is aware of the responsibility yOli lIlutual love and respect. Let us never forget that this have for the future of our country, and that this civic senrch must be won, if we are to survive and to be duty has been emphasized each day that you have free. How to do this is the major challenge of your aItended Li nden wood. new ami vigorous gener<ltiol1," Mrs. Mink said. "The changes in oLir manner of living have been Disclaiming the idea of fate as the maker of destiny, wrought during your young lives, but r know that Congresswoman Mink said that she believes "... man your lessons in history and in the social sciences have can and will build llis own future. As we have become made you conscious of the ways of the past, and the surrounded b}' the good and evil things of our civiliza rich heritage that is now part of your ne'" generation," tion, so we have the power and will to reconstruct declared 1\11 rs. Mink. those things which will improve our lives, What is "If your immediate lives h,we been affected so dras required is the errort <ltld 1I nderstanding to effect the tically in a few short years," i'vlrs. Mink said after necessary chan nels for good instead of evil." having described m:ll1y of tmlay's "luxuries" wll ich Viewing automation and the "... release of man have been recent inventions, "imagine what revo]u from the enervating tedium of work," J'l'!rs. Mink ,tjonary chnnges have taken place in the business and asked, "Wi II our education be adequate j n this kind in the industry of the world, Nuclear power has of society to give us the desire for more knowledge, for changed the structure of \\'orld cliplomacy, ami war the mere excitement of our minds and intellect?" and peace are discussed not an)' more by the victories "No one dOll bts today .that America is the greatest of the battlefield but in terms of whether there could cou ntry on earth. We surpass el'ery other coul)tr~' in be any survivors, and what kind of life there will he our production of food, in the advances of our indus in such a raelio-active catacylsm of mutations trans trial technology, in our ability to produce various and forming the very germ of life as we recognize it today," sundry consumer goods, in our development of anned she said. might and nuclear power, in our seilTch for the cures of "There was a time when we as individuals, in the diseases, and in the achievement of the highest stand remote reaches of metropolitan America, could doak ard of ]ivi ng. our eyes and ears from the sharp sounds of disorder "We arc now working on the business of building in the world, and say that if war shollid come, so be the best educational institutions in the world," she it.... Such a day is gone. Every disorder of the world said. "And with all that is being done and which is 3 proposed to be done, I have no doubt that in a short round ball? Knowledge without full understanding is time we will also be the leading nation in the field nevertheless increditably ignorant. of education at all levels. Having accomplished all this, 'Will we be able to support our institutions of can we summon up all our vision and education, and higher learning as true places of intellectualism and become the leading nation in the area of pure intel free thought? Will higher education become a universal lectualism? Can we set the mark that when this right to the children of the future-to develop their century ends with the year 2,000 that we will have minds and spirits in order not to succumb to the contributed to the world of knowledge the greatest droning monotony of the machine-to really become philosophers that this world since the dawn of civiliz.a~ that kind of free man, newly defined by our age, who tion has ever known? Can we look forward to the time now has the time to measure lthe true essence and when our nation's children will awe in the power of quality of life and its meaning in the orderliness of the the minds of our own thinkers, for the strength of their universe and our minutia in the galaxy of space and ideas, and for the contributions they willlllake to the time," the Congresswoman asked. solutions of man's problems in the Dext century? She expressed the hope that through the lightening' "Will we produce new exciting scholars who will of man's physical burdens, man's mind and soul will provide us with new definitions of the meaning of be freed <t • •• to find ways and means to reach a life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as they will moral understanding which reserves to the individual apply after the year 2000," she asked. "Will our edu his dignity and freedom, and yet leaves room for the cated society have the wisdom to recognize these great full exercise of government to promote. the general minds and accord these great ideas their true place of welfare, and reserves to nations their right of sover~ excellence? eignty and yet makes possible cooperation for the bettennent of the human race.