Phoenix College - Sandprints Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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TYPICAL of the faculty which has helped motivate and develop Phoenix College throughout the school's career is Amos Hoff. Since 1937, he has provided the college with outstanding work and service which can be acknowledged in the words of Dr. Robert J. Hannelly - . . . intelligent able, creative, industrious, pleasant, gentle. His activities in Astronomy, Physics, Engineering, building, telescopes, seeding clouds to induce rain, and teaching aviation meterology have contributed immensely to the quality and progress of Phoenix College Mr Hoff and associates pour cement for foundation of Phoe- mx College Observatory. A declination swivel for horizon-to-zenith sweeps is accurately checked Polishing of the mirror, painstaking-precise-perfection.

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Dedication of Service BARBARA P. ROBINSON AMOS H. HOFF PROGRESS in civilization is actually progress in ideas. These ideas are responsible for man's achievements and success through his imagination, innovation, and implementation. Imagination, the lever which engages the thought processes, is the impetus which maintains man's progress. ln- novation develops these processes into a resourceful product which benefits society. Implementation through efforts to produce better standards of living is man's method of coordinating overall advancement and progress through ideas. Webster says that . . . ideas may apply to a mental image or formulation of some- thing seen, or known, or imagined, or to something assumed or vaguely sensed. The best source of ideas is an educated mind, and the best source of educated minds is the col- leges of America. PHOENIX COLLEGE, founded in 1920 with 15 students and 6 instruc- tors, has proudly accepted the re- sponsibility of encouraging constant growth and development for almost half a century - academically, so- cially, and physically - and has be- come one of the foremost junior colleges in the nation. Most respon- sible for the constant progress and success of this institution, evidenced by a current enrollment of 12,000 students, and more than 200 faculty members, and including the vast ex- pansion in buildings and campus fa- cilities, are those men and women who teach and guide students, and who serve the school, the community, and the state with the utmost dedi- cation and competence. Phoenix Col- lege is indeed fortunate to have acquired a faculty of such quality and professionalism. To all these people - thanks for a job well done! FOUR of these people have de- cided to retire. The '68 edition of SANDPRINTS especially and grate- fully acknowledges the service and effort they have expended to educate, guide, and train thousands of Ari- zonans. To you who have offered so much for the continued improvement and success of Phoenix College - we dedicate this book.

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www we k.A. The final phase - setting the finished product, a 24 reflector telescope, into the housing at the observatory. .4 B A - .K , km-Q The end result of the largest telescope on any Junior College campus in the nation. 9 J.,