University of New Haven - Chariot Yearbook (West Haven, CT)

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ALLEN C. HUTCHINSON Vice President AiUU To the Graduates: It may be trite to say that Commencement marks a milestone. The truth often appears trite. You have reached a milestone, but it is neither an end nor a begin- ning. It marks only the completion of one phase of your education and the start of another. If your education stops with this Commencement, your forward progress must inevitably stop also. This dynamic society of ours is moving forward with giant strides, so fast that the best brains must have difficulty in coping with its advances. Technologically you are fast entering into a new and constantly changing world, one that will require your expert knowledge to stay abreast of it — let alone move ahead. Your further education, whether it be formal or informal, pursued on an ever continuing basis, will help you to find the answers that must be found. Manpower alone is not enough. Its efficient utilization is one of our major problems. Harnessing automation is another, for the best electronic brains still require human control. You, as college graduates, must face up to many responsibilities. Yours is the challenge to further analysis and action, to venturing on into the unknown. Your education, again whether formal or informal, must continue. I believe it will. You have all my good wishes. ALLEN C. HUTCHINSON Vice President, New Haven College

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MARVIN K. PETERSON President To the 1964 Graduates: This year of 1963-1964, our fourth here on the campus in West Haven, has seen New Haven College take further steps forward. These are all part of the master plan for the development of your College. Many of you have been here for the four years of our occupancy of the present campus and have participated in the College ' s growth. This has been both academic and physical, as it should be. As the enrollment increases, both academic personnel and facilities must keep pace. Also, facilities for the many extra-curricular activities must catch up with the present number of students and be prepared for the even greater number expected in coming years. In addition to the gain in enrollment of both day and evening students, two really significant factors of growth have been the marked increase in the number of full-time faculty members and the broadening of our College ' s bachelor degree offerings. We shall continue to strength our corps of full-time teaching staff. At present we shall not extend our degree offerings, but we hope to achieve continually greater depth and quality in the curriculum we present. As I write, I see from my window the first physical evidence of our new Student Center — the test boring machine in operation. Many of you will be receiving bachelor degrees before the Center is completed. We are sorry that you will not have an opportunity to enjoy it as students. As alumni, however, you will have many chances to see the Center when you return to the campus for graduate activities. We hope that in time you will see a new science and engineering classroom and labora- tory building being constructed. In the meantime, the space created by the Student Center will permit us to vacate areas in the main building now occupied by student service functions and to construct new classrooms in their place. Thus the College will endeavor to meet the ever-growing demand to enroll more stu- dents. Although our plans do not call for New Haven College to become a university, we must provide for those students in this area who are qualified for college and need ou reducational facilities. You are about to become alumni of the College, and we welcome you to this graduate group. Some of you will be returning for further education, some will be going on to other educational institutions, and others will be pursuing their careers in business or industry. Regardless of your future plans, you will always be close to our hearts here at your Alma Mater. The support and guidance of a loyal alumni body is necessary to every college; we hope you will give it to yours. But we do not lose sight of the fact that such support cannot be asked unless it is merited. As you pass the milestone of graduation, the best wishes of the entire faculty and staff go to each one of you. May I add my personal congratulations and my sincere hope that the future may bring success to each of you. MARVIN K. PETERSON President, New Haven College

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Dear Graduates: It is inevitable that as people go through life they lose things. In the years ahead you will lose something of the education you have received here (you may conceivably lose the pleasing memento in which these words are reproduced). But what you lose will not be felt as loss if you retain the ability to absorb new ideas, to focus them and use them for your own fulfillment. The degree you receive from us is our state- ment that we believe you to have acquired this ability: the techniques and understanding which will make you the knowledgeable and useful per- son our society calls an educated man. However, this ability can be lost through a process of stagnation unless one makes an ever renewed effort to remain receptive an d alert, that IS, commences to be a learner from life now that the academic apprenticeship is at an end. I congratulate you and offer you my best wishes as you go forth — may our loss of you as under- graduates be your gain as people of full lives. DEAN BENNETT STEPHEN J. BENNETT Dean To the Graduates in the Evening Division: In this, my first year as Director of the Eve- ning Division of the College, it has been my privilege to meet most of you. Since I secured much of my own college education in evening programs, I realize your problems. Attending classes regularly week after week, year after year, studying when it would be much more fun to play, bucking winter storms and spring fever — all these have failed to dim your enthusiasm or to divert you from your goal. Your perseverance now receives its reward, and the degree you are presented is more mean- ingful because of the continued effort it has in- volved. I congratulate you and wish you all the success I know you deserve. Many of you will come back for further edu- cation, while others will be here only occasionally as alumni. Whatever you do, you have our assur- ance of the fullest support and encouragement. New Haven College salutes you I GEORGE A. SCHAEFER h: mm tBI I H iPm. J k3 H 1 1 if i 1 r ak GEORGE A. SCHAEFER Director, Evening Division