University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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. , - 1 ' ifl . - . . f t- ' - . -; dollars in market value. As such endow- ments have grown, so has Michigan ' s abili- ty to fund continued research, specialized faculty, and modern facilities to enhance and encourage a unique educational ex- perience in every discipline. And the campaign forges ahead. In 1984, A Heritage of Leadership: The Campaign for Michigan sought to reach its goal of private gifts totaling $160 mil- lion dollars - - the most ambitious and well-supported fund-raising drive the uni- versity has ever undertaken. Co-chaired by such honoraries as former President Ger- ald R. Ford and Chairman Roger B. Smith of the General Motors Corporation, The Campaign for Michigan exhibits public support and dedication to education at its best. Chairmen Ford and Smith wrote, In- creasingly, with the growth of the Ameri- can population, society has called upon its great universities to fulfill a special role: to extend access to the most capable students of all ethnic and religious backgrounds and economic means, while generating new knowledge and preserving and contin- ually Devaluating the knowledge of the past. It is this philosophy which Michi- gan has adopted for the years a Drawing on the past, while aiming tow . ' | . , R Ctn 6 Opening Section

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-L. Christie i fltcluaon and facilities. Respected nation-wide, and indeed around the world, Michigan ' s past achievements are worthy of recognition. Yet, looking back upon 167 years of success and the achievements of Michigan in perspective, the future looks even brighter. Nearly nine of every ten entering freshmen rank in the top fifth of their high school graduating classes; seven of these are in the top ten percent. And, countering a nationa l trend, freshman SAT scores are also higher while, each year, close to half of all Michigan graduating seniors enter either graduate or professional schools. Few schools enroll more National Merit Scholars, and none have more active alumni than the University of Michigan. The future not only looks bright, but secure as well. Michigan ' s financial port- folio is among the most valuable of any public institution ' s, and recent endowment figures alone sum to nearly $200 million -8. Masck Opening Section 5

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In Old, Familiar Places the future, the University of Michigan must continue to meet challenges head-on with the sagacity and initiative it has come to be associated with. It is this spirit that the 1984 Michigan Hnsinn celebrates. While encapsuling the past for the future, the realization that both are important becomes clear. It is commonly thought that a yearbook can freeze the images and the pulse of a place and time for all to experience in future years. It cannot. But by probing those im- ages and that pulse, the Ensian has done the most important function of all it has brought together and consummated the past and the future. By accomplishing this, the Ensian truly commemorates yet an- other successful year at the University of Michigan.