Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Mrs. Verna Ayers Housemother, Boys ' Dormitory Mrs. Alma Johnson Housemother, Girls ' Dormitory Mrs. Anna Kellinson Housemother, Seminary Dormitory

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Phyllis Limburg Secretary in the Alumni Office Mary Sandberg Secretary to the Dean of the Seminary Doris Brown, B.S. Dietician

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Knowing that today ' s warfare — as firmly as it may now be entrenched in our thinking and in our lives — will presently be over, we have chosen as our theme one which we hope will be pertinent not only this year and for the duration, ' 1 but in the years to follow the present conflict, in years of peace ' as well as of strife. The time has passed when a person who devoted all his time to studying, or to athletics, or to any one field was considered a healthy or complete personality, and we are returning again to an idea comparable to the Elizabethan ideal of the well-rounded individual. With this thought in mind, the 1943 Rockety-I is built up about the theme of the ideally developed personality — one who is a good student, has a sound moral background, is socially well adjusted, takes part in athletics, and has an interest in the fine arts. When the war is over, we trust that this ideal of the well-rounded individual will not only have survived the struggle, but that it will come to the fore in the post-war world. However admirable may be the work of those who devote all their time to one subject to the exclusion of all others, we were created not as one-sided creatures with a capacity for accomplishments in one field and that only, but as creatures whose capacities for achievement increase as their lives become more full and complete. It is our hope that the American language will continue to progress, and that in the not too distant fu- ture certain connotations of such words as grind, athlete, society, scientist, theologian, artist, and musician will have disappeared entirely in the process of amelioration.