Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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PRESIDENT V. C. KAYS

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Doc REEL I--AD MINISTRATION

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Presidents Message The history of civilization may be written in terms of man ' s progress from fear to faith. Faith in ourselves and Must in our neighbors enables us to build up institutions. Institutions are essential to progress in human lives today. The early reliance on rugged individualism and its potentialities for the protection of the individual and the community and the development of the race no longer gives the assurance of security essential to the satisfac- tions in human life. The American Way ' is no different today than yesterday, but the problems incident to the enjoyment of the American Way ' ' of life are new. There are new frontiers to explore if the retention of democratic liberty and the realizations of the fundamental right to work at tasks suited to our training and capacity and to enjoy the standard of living in keeping with human dignity are to be perpetuated. Democracy today is apparently in greater danger than ever before on account of ignorance, selfishness, and greed of individuals, groups, com- munities and nations and groups of nations. To this end, optimism, faith in mankind, belief in ideals, courage and willingness to call upon and work with our fellow man are vital if we are to emerge from the narrow personal and selfish desires and become a constructive force in the world today. If we have and utilize this optimism, we will prove that we have been able to create the beginning of a new order in a peaceful and prosperous world. Each of us has a rendezvous with destiny which means more today with the present implications of personal, social, political, and moral responsi- bilities than it has in the history of the world. It is our hope that your concepts of individual responsibility drawn from the cumulative apperceptive experiences of your lives today may sustain you and guide and direct you in the solution of the intricacies of the new frontiers of our American Way.