MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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10th President in 1961 Dr. John Allen Kraut, Vice-President of Columbia, delivers his address — The Individual Still Counts. Over one hundred delegates were sent to witness Dr. Michalson ' s installation.

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Michalson Inaugurated Mrs. Sherwood Eddy, MacMurray Trustee, helps Dr. Michalson with his robe before the inauguration procession. The weekend of April 7 and 8, 1961 was the official opening to a new era at MacMurray. Dig- nitaries from all parts of the country met on cam- pus for the inauguration of new president, Gordon E. Michalson. On the evening of Friday April 7, a Sympo- sium was held in Annie Merner Chapel. A panel composed of Dr. J. Edward Dirks of Yale Divinity School; Dr. Tyler Thompson of Garrett Biblical Institute, Dr. Wm. R. Mueller of Goucher College, and Dr. Michalson discussed The Community of Faith and the Community of Learning. The following morning at 10:30 Gordon Elliott Michalson was inaugurated. The main ad- dress titled The Individual Still Counts was given by Dr. John A. Kraut. Dr. Thomas B. Lugg, President of the Board of Trustees of MacMurray, and Dr. John O. Gross of the Board of Education of the Methodist Church officiated in the inaugu- ration ceremony. President Michalson accepted with the speech The Humane and the Christian. The new president takes his vows of dedication. Congratulations on the big day for both Dr. Michalson and Mac- Murray College.

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Searching for Meani The student sees both tradition and change at MacMurray. The Green Girls of the past initiations are gone now; class serenades remain. Classes meet in MacMurray Hall and Main Hall as in the past, but now the classes are composed of both men and women. Coordinate student governments function, two newspapers cover campus events, but the greatest chan ges are in the academic atmosphere of the college. The Home Economics De- partment is no more; only the Physical Education Department has gradu- ate students, and there are fewer courses in the field of business and economics. The Language Department has added Latin to the curriculum with the promise of Russian and Greek to come, and courses such as general psychology meet in RumI classes. Faculty members from all points of the globe have been added, and there are new courses offered in the humanities and philosophy. MacMurray is returning to the tradi- tion of the purely liberal arts college — a college to prepare the student, for life as well as to train him for a profession, to show him many hori- zons in his search for meaning.