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I! II ~ 1967 I f CAP AND GOWN DAY t . C'QNVOCATION I NIV,ERSITY OF MINNESOTA f ~ I~ f. I lI I ' CAP AND GOWN DAY CONVOCATION NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAV,MAY24,1967 AT ELEVEN-FIFTEEN O'CLOCK . FOUNDED IN THE FAITH THAT MEN ARE ENNOBLED BY UNDER . STANDING.~ DEDICATED TO , THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARN t~NG AND THE SEARCH FOR ~-RUTH ~ DEVOTED TO THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH AND ·~ JHE WE-LFARE OF THE, STATE NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM THE BOARD OF REGENTS THE HONORABLE LESTER A. MALKERSON ....................... Minneapolis First Vice President and Chairman THE HONORABLE MARJORIE J. (MRS. C. EDWARD) .HOWARD ........ Excelsior Second Vice President THE HONORABLE ELMER L. ANDERSEN .............................. St. Paul THE HONORABLE DANIEL C. GAINEY .............................. Owatonna THE HONORABLE ALBERT V. HARTL ............................. Fergus Falls THE HONORABLE HERB L. BUFFINGTON, M.D •..................... Waterville THE HONORABLE FRED J. HUGHES ................... : ............. St. Cloud THE HONORABLE CHARLES W. MAYO, M.D •........................ Rochester THE HONORABLE WILLIAM K. MONTAGUE ........................... Duluth THE HONORABLE GEORGE. W. RAUENHORST .......................... Olivia THE HONORABLE OTTO A. SILHA ..................................... Edina THE HONORABLE HERMAN F. SKYBERG ............................... Fisher DR.· o. MGEDITH WILSON. President DR. LAURENCE R. LUNDEN MR. CLINTON T. JOHNSON Secretary Treasurer MR. STERUNG B. GARRISON Assistant. Secretary : i I j F: ! ! THIS IS YOUR UNIVERSITY CHARTERED in February, 1851, by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minne sota, the University of Minnesota this year celebrated its one hundred and sixteenth birth day. As one of the great Land-Grant universities in the nation, the University of Minnesota is dedicated to training the young people of today to become the leaders of tomorrow. Each year our graduates leave our campuses to add new skills and knowledge to the existing resources of our State. They have been trained here as physicians, lawyers, engineers, social workers, teachers, journalists, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, farmers, businessmen to name only some of the careers for which we offer preparation. Since its founding, the University has awarded more than 194,000 degrees, each one in recognition of the success ful completion of an exacting academic program. In addition to giving collegiate instruction to more than 44,000 students annually on its Minneapolis-St. Paul, Duluth, Morris, Crookston, and Rochester campuses, the Univer sity offers, through its Schools of Agriculture and its General Extension Division, special ized training designed to assist those who wish to study on a part-time basis. It offers further educational opportunity throughout the State by providing county agents, home agents, 4-H club agents, and recreation and health consultants who give effective instruction to residents of the State in their own homes. In the diversified research laboratories on the University's six campuses, at the several agricultural experiment stations scattered throughout the State, at the Rosemount Research Center, the Cloquet Forest Research Center, the Cedar Creek Natural History Area near Bethel, the Fruit Breeding Farm and the Arboretum at Excelsior, the Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station, the Hormel Institute at Austin, and at University Hospitals, Univer sity scientists are working on countless research experiments of vital importance to the future health and welfare of us all. These projects, of which only a few are mentioned here, are concerned with cancer, heart surgery, taconite, gamma irradiation, cheese-making, teacher training, municipal government, school surveys, and development of new varieties of grains, fruits, and flowers. < THE UNIVERSITY is acknowledged to be the cultural hub of the Northwest. It is the home of the University Artists Course, Radio Station KUOM, the University of Minnesota Television Hour, the University Theatre, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the local performances of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Through the University of Min nesota Program Service, the University brings renowned artists and lecturers to more than a million and a half persons living in the area it serves. The people of Minnesota are proud of their University, not only because it is one of the leading state universities in the nation, but also because of the extent and quality of its services from which they, their families, communities, and organizations benefit. Their interest in the University is a dynamic thing and expresses itself in many ways. Contribu tions from them have made it possible for the Variety Club Heart Hospital and the great Mayo Memorial Building to be constructed. Through the American Legion and its auxiliary posts all over the State, thousands of friends have made generous donations to provide an endowed research professorship in heart disease. Generous contributions have built the 1 Masonic Memorial Hospital, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Cancer Research Center, and Diehl Hall (which houses the biological-medical library and additional medical research facilities). Equally generous have been the contributions made by corporations, associations, foundations, trade unions, clubs, and individuals, whose tireless efforts have made hun dreds of scholarships and fellowships available to promising students each year. Chiefly because of financial difficulties only one-half of the State's high school graduates of marked ability enter any college or university. Friends and supporters of the University, recogniz ing the need to alleviate this situation, continuously try to increase the number of scholar ships and the amount of money available for scholarship assistance. As it meets the needs of present students, the University must also make plans for those of the future. The 43,997 students who enrolled at the University at the beginning of the 1966-1967 academic year represented nearly one-half of Minnesota's college-level enroll ments. They underline the fact that there are limits to the University's physical capacity. Future enrollments must be adjusted to those limits. In the fall of 1965, for the first time in its history, the University instituted an admissions policy based on controlled growth of total enrollment. This change in admissions requirements held the 1966-1967 enrollment to about 44,000 students. It reflects the University's need for more teachers, more land, and more buildings. And it makes plain the University's determination to maintain the educational quality that has made it one of America's leading educational institutions. THE 1965 LEGISLATURE granted the University $81,300,000 for general operations and maintenance during the 1965-1967 biennium. In addition, the University received $9,083,223 for University Hospitals; $6,833,887 for special appropriations, including special extension and research activities; $15,820,656 for new buildings, land, and the rehabilitation of existing buildings; and $1,240,000 for the University of Minnesota, Morris. Each year the University publishes and widely circulates a summary financial state ment, which is available to anyone upon request, as is a much more comprehensive and complete statement for those who wish to make a special study of the University's in come and expenditures. The summary financial statement of 1965-1966 showed that the University's current income and expenditures amounted to $150,738,945.58. Of the total received, $15,647,291.27 came from student tuition and fees; $20,023,300.63 from activities relating to educational departments such as Hospitals, Dental Clinic, Cancer Detection Center, and University Theatre receipts and the sale of bulletins and agricultural products; $1,673,200.41 from intercollegiate athletics; $21,659,432.05 from such services as the dormitories and dining halls, printing, the laundry, the University of Minnesota Press, the Department of Concerts and Lectures, and the Health Service; and $7,937,650.10 from corporations, foundations, in dividuals, and endowment income for instruction, research, prizes, scholarships, and the care of the sick. Also $34,462,190.42 came from the Federal government for instruction, research, and agricultural extension. The State provided $49,335,880.70 or 32.7 percent of the University's total operating costs. 2 THIS IS YOUR UNIVERSITY Funds expended for the construction and remodeling of buildings and the purchase of land amounted to $13,814,966. • • • "FouNDED IN THE FAITH THAT MEN ARE ENNOBLED BY UNDERSTANDING DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH DEVOTED TO THE INSTRUCTION OF YouTH AND THE WELFARE OF THE STATE" These words, engraved on the factade of Northrop Memorial Auditorium and an in trinsic part of the fabric of the University of Minnesota, express the purpose of the University, the spirit in which it was founded, and the motivation for its academic en deavors throughout the 116 years of its history. Its students, supported by its faculty, its administrative officers, and its alumni, form the heart of the University structure and the means by which it is enabled to translate these ideals into reality. Linked by countless ties to the University's history, and creating, out of their own college experience, another chapter in that history, the students are its most articulate spokesmen to the communities of the State and beyond. Those who have distinguished themselves by academic achievement, the

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