Kean University - Memorabilia Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Q Governor Meyner extended his congratulations. Dedication The dedication of Newark State College was honored by many dignitaries in the audience as well as platform speakers and the public at large. An impressive procession consisting ot alumni and seniors formed a guard ot honor for such invited guests as Governor Robert B. Meyner, Congressman Robert W. Kean, Norman Cousins, editor ot the Saturday Review, Mrs. Edward L. Katzenbach, Presi- dent of the State Board of Education, Dr. Frank Stover, Assistant Commissioner ot Education and Reverend Dwight E. Faust, Minister of the Townley Presbyterian Church. Norman Cousins who delivered the keynote address, The Making of Tomorrow, received the first honorary Doctor ot Letters degree conferred by Newark State College. The attentive audience. l Congressman Kean expressed his pleasure in the development of the 5 campus. X

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Dr. Scanlon- Our ultimate defense will not depend upon atomic bombs, but upon the friendships which we have established around the world. j so ' ag ,rigs Y . kb 125 5 rs, ,lr 2:56 1 , Mr. Fink- It is not the common man who will destroy this nation but the prehistoric minds who have been pushed, kicking and scream- i ts ' fs,. ., t 5 iff' X ,f 4. ing into the 20th Century. :QW 1. isa-.. 1' 3 LECTURE ERIE October, 1958 A lecture series in honor of the dedication of the new campus in Union was offered by the college on the theme, The Intellectual and the Democratic Public. The four free lectures were offered each Wednesday during the month of October. Mr. James Downes, Professor of Social Science at New- ark State College, opened the series with a lecture en- titled The Mucker Pose: ls Democracy Opposed to lntellectualism? He was followed by Dr. Herbert Mc- Davitt, Superintendent of Schools in South Orange-Maple- wood, who spoke on The Education of lntellectuals: The Public Schools and the Gifted Child. The third lecture was given by Mr. Rychard Fink, Associate Professor of Education at Newark State College, who discussed The Radical Perception: The Task of lntellectualism and Its Dangers. Dr. David G. Scanlon, Professor of International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, con- cluded the series with his lecture, The New Dimension of Intellectual Responsibility-The Challenge of Cross- Cultural Learningsf' l2'lI luu M