Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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■ t From the Dean . . . Throughout America excellence is too often defined in terms of size. What political or social unit does not boast of the biggest something in the state or country ? Jesus did not boast of numbers. Numerically few were his followers. Although Anderson College could boast of dimensional growth, far more important than quantitative ascendancy is qualitative achievement. The accomplishments of the past few years will stand as landmarks to those who look back twenty-five years hence. Here are some of the achievements that will be remembered: a com¬ pletely standardized curriculum; adequate un¬ dergraduate courses in business, teacher-train¬ ing, music, art, and theology; preliminary pro¬ fessional training in medicine, law, engineer¬ ing, divinity, social, and public service—all made possible by standard modern laboratories, a functional library, and an unusually compe¬ tent faculty. Few colleges have been as completely stream¬ lined in personnel and guidance services to students, in medical aid and hospitalization without extra student charge, in the soundness of religious impact, in the selective standards for admission, in a student centered approach to life ' s problems. And all in a quarter of a century. RUSSELL OLT Dean

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From the President We have come to a critical era in the onward march of the centuries. It is a day when the inventive genius of man has overborne his sense of moral goodness. Many of our most respected thinkers believe that civilization moves on to a swift and awful doom. The staff and students of Anderson College belong to that fraternity of educators who are convinced that an educational philosophy which stems from materialism, humanism, and secu¬ larism is more likely to be destructive than constructive of the ultimate good of humanity; that education to be creative must first be Christian. I hope that those of us who leave the campus this year, and those of us who remain, may ever keep to the forefront this basic concept of the type of education Anderson seeks to promote. JOHN A. MORRISON President

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JJJJIJJ JI I ■ VILA DEUBACH, PH. D. In addition to heading the English Depart¬ ment, Dr. Deubach is the Co-ordinator of Stu¬ dent Personnel. In this position she directs the newly established office of student personnel, which serves the students in many ways and which has attracted considerable attention from other colleges. ROBERT H. REARDON, B.D.,S.T.M. Mr. Reardon returned last fall to his Alma Mater as Assistant to the President from a pastorate in Pennsylvania. He is well known in the community, his father having been pastor of the Park Place Church of God for many years. His presence on the campus is helping to relieve the burden of duties carried by Dr. Mor¬ rison since his illness last year.