Cal State Fullerton - Titan Yearbook

“As graduating students you have worked long and hard for this moment. You have striven for the best you could be and you have labored for knowledge and opened your minds to new ideas. You have done all of this and you have succeeded in completing your degree programs and are now ready to make your mark in your respective professions as well as meet your responsibilities to our society. We are proud of you and your accomplishments as Cal State Fullerton ' s newest alumni and we are also proud that Cal State Fullerton continues to be the university where learning is preeminent. Our undergraduate and graduate programs have provided you with the best of current practice, theory and research. With 86 percent of our 1 15,000 alumni living and working in Southern California, Cal State Fullerton ' s greatest contribution to this region has been and will continue to be the quality of our graduate ' s performance in the area ' s business, educational, professional and governmental arenas. We hope that your graduation from Cal State Fullerton will be the beginning of lives that are productive and satisfying for you. We hope that you will always use the knowledge that you have obtained from Cal State Fullerton for the betterment of not only your life but those of your fellow human beings. We hope that the days you have spent at Cal State Fullerton will be but the prologue for happy and fulfilling days yet to come. Your graduation from Cal State Fullerton denotes not severance from the university but your union with it. Com- mencement does not mean, as many wrongly think, the breaking of ties and the beginning of life apart. Rather it marks your initiation in the fullest sense into the fellowship of Cal State Fullerton as bearers of its torch, as centers of its influence, as promoters of its spirit. Wherever you go, Cal State Fullerton goes with you. Wherever you are at work, there is Cal State Fullerton at work. We want to encourage you to see this campus as yours, to be active alumni, discovering for yourselves the personal benefits of continued involvement with Cal State Fullerton. We wish you luck, success and much happiness to you in all your future endeavors. Sincerely, Milton A. Gordon President President Gordon B.S. Xavier University, Louisiana M.A. University of Detroit PliD. Illinois Institute of Technology " The new Mission and Goals, planning initiatives and graphic identity all highlight what the Cal State Fullerton faculty and staff strive to accomplish- to make learning preeminent. " H Er " Al op -Letters from the presidents ”