University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

lie came by rented livery, that convocation spcfalwr ol llie year l000, up the sand-surlaced curving road to the pile ot granite steps that lunneled upward to the single building that was then the University oi ldaho. He came to address a student body ot l06 eager youths. l-le came by plane, this assembly speaker ol l050. Before landing he circled the ll00-acre campus studded with nearly a hundred build- ings to get the feel ot the 3500 students he would address on the subject, Hllmerica at MidfCentury s-Wliat Lies Ahead?" How he comes, the assembly speaker ot the year 2000, or il he comes, rests largely with you, the students ot today. lt he comes, it will be to a vastly larger group. Qur plans and visions tor the tuture should continue at the expanding scale we've just experienced. lt he doesn't come, it will be because we tailed to solve the social, political and technological problems we inherited and created. We can meet the challenge it we will. l. li. BUCHANAN President J. E. Buchanan