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

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President Marvin K. Peterson To the Class of 7969; It is very pleasing to ol er to each of you my very warm and personal congratulations upon your graduation from New Haven College. Most of you joined your graduating class as freshmen, while some of you became members of the Class of 1969 as upperclassmen. Regardless of the length of time on campus, I hope that each of you shares with me a great sense of accomplishment during your student years. You have witnessed changes in yourselves and your fellow classmates. You have seen much accomplished by your College. We hope that the changes which have come about with you are those which you have sought, and that your goals have been reached and even exceeded. Your College ' s aim, as always, has been to provide by the best means possible the opportunities for you to reach your self-determined objectives. As you leave our campus as an undergraduate, there are many avenues of return. The broadest and straightest route is in the role of an alumnus. We hope that you will keep informed about your alma mater and that you will support it in every way possible. Your college must be ever aware that it must merit your support and not just expect it without reason. An evening graduate program is not far off and this provides another means of returning — as a graduate student. Some of you, especially graduates of the Evening College, may become close to the College in the role of parents of undergraduates. As years go by It would be most meaningful to see sons and daughters of alumni become undergraduates and their sons and daughters in turn, so that attending New Haven College might become a family tradition. We have grown physically and academically with great rapidity in the short time you have been on campus. The physical growth IS certainly more visible and the pace in the immediate future will be even more rapid. The growth academically is qualitative and much less obvious, but is far more important than physical things, which in themselves are only means to quality. WE have charged ourselves to give depth and strength to the existing academic programs which we have provided with considerable speed in response to urgent demands from students. To use a football analogy, we can say that we are now in excellent field position and we intend to score and get the extra point. The real measure of your undergraduate achievements and our efforts toward your goals is what kind of a person you have become by being a member of the class of 1%9. We hope that by earning your degree you will make a better mark in the world, and this thought is not confined to personal and professional achievement. What kind of a parent are you or will you become? Will you contribute, both in kind and in service, toward the solution of the immense and sometimes terrifying problems that face our nation and the world? Will you have an acute awareness of all that IS around you and do something about it rather than adopt a narrow, selfish, solely economic program of living? We hope your answer to these questions Is a strong affirmative, made even more so by your New Haven College experience. Again — warm congratulations to each one of you, alumnus and alumna, along with every best wish for a successful, happy and rewarding life in the years to come. 17