Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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Pifching in +0 give us +ha+ ouHook are Jrhe Deparfmenfs of Romance Languages. Government and Hisfory. Above IefiL are Iinguiers CroweH. Husson. Marburg. and Brenes. af righf is Professor Lufher Lee who has assumed +he maior porfion of Jrhe work of +he Governmenf classes wi+h an effecfive Jrhoroughness. below righiL is Frank Pifman of +he De- par+men+ of Hisfory. as he poses wi+h his invincible S+e+son. We have iearned whaf is meanf by righfs: now we face Jrhe iniuncfion of +hose righfs-eobligafion. Pomona is no excepfion +o +he hundreds of lib- eral arJrs colleges who have raised +he mark on Jrheir me+ronome. By- words oi +he day are accelerafed program. army and navy special +raining unifs. and area orienfafion. Wi+h special emphasis on +he lasf of +hese. +he deparfmenfs of language. religion. and hisfory have pro- vided for +heir sfudenfs. army and civilian alike. new courses and innova- +ions in +he old. so +ha+ war-fime requiremenfs for expediency and special- izafion can be me'r. Wifh army sfudenfs in mind. +he deparfmenfs have been supplemenfed by new Jreachers +o presen+ courses s'rressing such needs as familiarii'y wifh +he hisfory. language. and mores of foreign counfries when +he final invasion comes. The enfire program has been in a sense experimenfal; and following +he +rend of all experiment many of ifs elemenfs and mefhods have been minimized or discarded en+irely. Maferially +he +ime and efforf wasfed may be regreffable; buf more im- porfanf +han learning whaf nowL fo do. we have learned wha+ +0 do. The ulfimafe success of +he eHorf is ye+ +0 be proven. We can do nofhing more +han give ourselves wholehearfedly +o ifs accomplishment

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Three imporfanf cogs in Jrhe wheel who are Jraken for gran+ed. forgoHen offen. no+ enough appreciafed. bu+ always presemL when we need +hem are Mrs. Throne. Dr. Munz. and Dr. CoHrin. Helen Throne. in addifion +0 be- ing a compefen+ and indusfrious Graduafe Manager. is her own secrefary. She lends a helpful hand +0 +he many who come +0 her wi+h problems. mon- efary and ofherwise. Financially responsible +0 almos1L every deparfmenf in Jrhe college. she execufes her imporfanf and no+ so enviable posifion wifh dexferier and accuracy. Equally busy in anofher phase of adminisfering is Phillip Munz. Dean of +he faculfy. Dr. Munz leaves +his year +0 do research work af Cornell Universify. and if is a grafeful and appreciafing s+uden+ body which says goodby +0 anofher Pomonan. Familiar +0 all of us is Dr. Gilberf CoHrin. whose already cumbersome Jrask of caring for our minor illnesses has been enlarged wi'rh +he responsibilify 'For fending +0 Jrhe heaHh needs of Jrhe army unifs. Behind +hese +hree adminis+ra+ors labor Jrheir re- specfive s+affsesecre+aries. nurses. and +echnicians. We seldom +hink much abouf Jrhem unless an emergency arises: even +hen we are likely +0 forgef +hem as quickly as Jrhe need came. Bu+ if we sfop +0 +hink how many people devo're +heir full Jrime +0 keeping all phases oi campus service running smoofhly. we realize +he magnifude of Jrhe fask of mainfaining even as small a school as Pomona.

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NATIONAL OUTLOOK So. wifh a firm hold on +he obieclives immediafely before us. we may casf an eye +0 +he fufure. From all sides we receive promises of a new world made smaller and more accommodafing by modern science. Means and opporlun- ifies in such proporlion and variefy as +he pas+ could scarcely have dared imagine lie before us. Though yef unrealized. +hey indicafe one cerlainly: we are +0 become cifizens of nof only a democracy. bu+ also of +he world. Such opporfunify af flue lingerfips o1C ever man requires an infernaHonal ouHook Hwaf allows us laci ifies for vicar- ious living. and preparafion for aclual Jrangible exper- ience wifh all peoples and all counfries. Our educalors are exfencling +heir efforfs +0 give us +his ouflook: bu+ firsf H1e people. all of +hem, musf believe in 1+. We musf see a vision of fhe +hings +0 come. and clear our heads for a deferminalion +0 make +he vision a realily. Only when we realize +ha+ we slancl on +he +hreshold of a fime more rich and serviceable +0 all fnan +he world has ever known. +he righf educafion Jroward infernafional comprehension can sel 0H +he spark +0 make fulfillmenl possible. for his bow Jries. newcomer +0 flue Hisfory office. Richard Brace. above right has +hrown a new lighl upon +he Modern European area. Exhibifing +he sferling qual- ifies of deep +hinkers are Bernard Meland. far lelf. and Chen Shou- Yi. leH. ln addifion +0 +heir lec- l lures in +he fields of Religion and l Orienfal Affairs. respec+ively. +hese men possess Hwe affribul'es of +he infernalional scholar. Almosf as famous as Dr. Baumann l l