Simpson College - Zenith Yearbook (Indianola, IA)

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FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION

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Through the Zenith may I extend to the graduating class, the student body, faculty, administration, trustees, alumni and all friends of Simpson College my appreciation for their wise counsel concerning and their devotion to Simpson. We have been pass- ing through a decade of significant growth and development. The chief feature of this growth, I believe, is the almost miraculous ascent of the College in national prestige, especially among the leaders of higher education in America. This has grown out of the exceptionally high grade faculty that has been gathered here, our nationally famous Vital Center curriculum, the distinguished Annual Christian Liberal Arts Festival and the great array of famous men and women who come to speak on the campus, the construction of a student union, a men's dormitory, a science building in memory of George Washington Carver, (now under construction) a new women's dormitory and a new dormitory project for men, the establishment of a relationship, unique for a liberal arts college in America, with Oxford University, involving participation in the 1962 Fes- tival of the head of one of Oxford's most distinguished colleges, Christ Church, and the coming to our campus of our first Visiting Oxford Professor for the first semester of 1962-1963, as well as the gratifying increase of capital gifts from many sources, in- cluding The Methodist Church and the alumni, which will permit us, we trust, even in 1962, to start construction also on a new expansive library which will provide for the housing of 250,000 volumes. There are many other things but these are among the most impor- tant. It is the expectation of all of us that the next decade in the life of Simpson Col- lege will prove to be even more exciting and creative than the past one. W. E. Kerstetter Protidonf 11