Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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6r. Bonds Dear Friends: I feel priviledged that your editor has given me this opportunity to communicate with you. This is a message which must have pertinence for today for the future as well. Obviously, such an assignment requires the tongue of a Prophet and the footwork of a mountain goat! I am writing this as the 1968 new year opens. Within recent weeks and months there have come from many sources a number of predictions as to what will occur during the remainder of this century. Much has been said about anticipated progress in medicine. Man's major enemies to his health may well be conquered or nearly so. Agiowing picture of possibilities has also emerged concerning the future of architecture, the abolition of slums, the relief of pov- erty. a shorter work week, new recreational patterns, and a variety of other enchanting vistas It seems to me that our modern prophets have been strangely quiet on at least three major questions. Can we focus our energies successfully on our social goals on a voluntary basis, or shall we see a steadily increasing concentration of power and responsibility within federal agencies? I say we must not lose the innovative power or the sense of involvement arising from voluntary or private efforts. Specifically in our field of education as I write these words, almost every private college in the nation is facing a degree of financial crisis. To a lesser extent state-supported institutions are increasingly in need of resources to achieve the enormously complex mission assigned to them. Against this background my second question is simply this: Can we muster for both private and public institutions the degree of support required to retain their momentum? Education continues to be the foundation of national power. Consequently, few of the bright dreams put fourth by prophetic voices can be achieved unless wo improve constantly the effectiveness and quality of our educational activities. My third question revolves about the issue of personal values No great move- ment can be initiated or long sustained without courage, commitment and responsible action. But back of action lies the obligation for nourishing our loyalty for and belief in the purposes for which our nation was founded. Presi- dent Lincoln once made an eloquent address in which he declared that the principles in our Declaration of Independence were not simply for Americans in their time of revolution but for all men in all ages. These words are written at a time when our nation is troubled by a new kind of war in a far distant land. We are haunted by the hatreds and tensions which divide our races. Violent differences of political belief are straining our national cohesiveness. And yet. for those who will read history we find that we simply have, in contemporary form, troubles not unlike those which plagued earlier generations. We do have, however, far greater resources to deal with these problems It is appropriate in an publication of this kind constantly to hold before us the question of our duties as educated men and women. For all your lives you will benefit personally from the experience of your education at this institution I invite you to bring to the duties of your profession, to your life as a citizen, and to your family relationships as well, the quality of intelligent compassion. Use your wisdom, your convictions and your strength for the realization of those ideals which reflect truly the heritage which gives us freedom and opportunity. May this experience at Baldwin-Wallace be a source of continuous enrichment in all of the days of your lives. Sincerely yours. A.B. Bonds. Jr. President 20 John F Gregg Executive Administrative Assistant to the President

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BoaRd of tpustees Dr. Bonds with the Chairman oI the Board. Charles E. Spahr. Students escort Board of Trustee members to the November luncheon. I I BISHOP FRANCIS E KEARNS BISHOP FRANCIS G. ENSLEY PRESIDENT ALFRED B BONDS. JR VICE-PRESIDENT JUDGE LEE SKEEL CARL S BECHBERGER JOHN D. BEEGHLY HARRY T SEALY JUDGE KINGSLEY A. TAFT J PAUL THOMPSON MRS WILLIAM C. TREUHAFT JOHN F ERNSTHAUSEN JACOB O. KAMM LOUIS B. SELTZER ALBERT H. STAHMER KENNETH F. STEINGASS R S URSPRUNG THOMAS A WILKER HENRY L. ZUCKER PETER ROBERTSON GEORGE W RITTER CHARLESE SPAHR RICHARD TULLIS WELKER J. SMUCKER REV. THOMAS L CROMWELL REV ALAN J. DAVIS WALTER J. HEDDESHEIMER REV. THOMAS J. LUKE THEODORE MOLL PAUL C. NYLAND REV JOSEPH E HENDERSON REV. PAUL O MAYER EDWIN A. RIEMENSCHNEIDER REV. NORMAN SCHREI8ER FRANCIS A COY EDWARD C. CROUCH LLOYD L. HOFFMAN HARRY T. MARKS JAMES R RILEY REV WILLIAM H SMITH OREN E DICKASON REV. LLOYD C. ZOLLER HOWARD V . BROWN OSWALD L BINDER LEE C UNDERWOOD JESS A BELL WALTER O. LARSON HAROLD C BEYER THELMA M GOLDSWORD