Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Awnuniii uUiOH. The administration of a college is a science which calls for intellectual acumen and determined leadership. Com- mand of the techniques of management is indispensable to executive planning, organizing, and budgeting. Successful administration implies more, however, than mere mastery of administrative machinery. It is also an art — an art dependent upon broad vision, an art which intuitively adapts means to a selected end. . .Administration as science and administration as art cede to an even higher form, administration as vocation. Here all efforts, all talents, and all energies are sublimated in one supreme dedication. Inspiration for action flows from an unstinting devotion to a cause higher than self. This is the example, the motivating force of the men who have guided our early destinies. If we but emulate this lesson of per- sonal consecration to worthwhile endeavor, then the sacri- fice, the idealism, and the leadership of our administration and faculty shall have achieved its purpose. 1 ml F sum ■w m ■» 1 ‘!v ' N ' - ■■■ 1 ■■■ 1 18 ' ' ■ ' VJT. ' - 34

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IDMIIVISTRATIVE PltBSIteiT The accomplishments of the VERY REVEREND VIN- CENT A. McQUADE, O.S.A., Ph.D., bear out the ad- mirable qualities which he has exhibited as the first President of Merrimack College. Resolute in accepting any and all burdens placed upon his shoulders, he has applied strength of mind and character and indefatigable industry to the wearying problems of an infant institution. His unflagging determination and persevering effort con- tinue to be indispensable in facing the challenge of a development program complicated by the larger issue of national defense. To him, in large measure, must be credited the concrete actualization of what was once only an ideal. Under his administration the dream has become a reality. DEAN The REVEREND JOSEPH J. GILDEA, O.S.A., Ph.D., is Dean of the Faculty, and Director of the Divi- sion of Arts and Sciences. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Father Gildea plays a major role in formulating school policies, as well as handling the tedi- ous but very essential job of preparing class schedules. In this task of deciding what subjects are to be taught — and where, when, and by whom — he performs his duties with affableness, indispensable efficiency and inspiring patience. Ever immersed in, but never confounded by, a routine of courses, credits, and conflicts. Father Gildea exercises firm and confident sway over the academic operations of the College.