Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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l fue., ML foreword Growth in the future is the theme of the l965 Klirror - growth reflected in the faculty. plant construction and students. i Modernization is the key word and this progress is evidenced in the expansion of certain academic areas. such as the new courses in studio and art history. Not only the art department but also the history. psychology. sociology. English. philosophy and religion departments have gained new professors. both permanent and yisiting. This year Dana Hall will be completed and will include all of the latest chemical facilities. Dana Hall is the culmination point of almost twenty years of construction which has doubled the size of the campus. This construction has included the Fine Arts Center and the new Carnegie science wing. Now plans for remodeling some of the older dormitories are underway. Campus organizations are rapidly being improyed and new ones are being formed as the need arises. The former Christian Association has now become the Campus Association. One of its most popular innovations is its sandbox lecture series. The Womens Council is also entering a new field by sponsoring cultural trips. ln the students themselves this growth is manifested in maturing minds and changing attitudes. The image of students in college a generation ago wearing racoon coats. cheering at large football games and dancing the Big Apple no longer matches the Bates student. His outlook has broadened to a concern with local. national. and international problems. During the year students sponsored a drive to raise money for multiple sclerosis. yisited a sout tern Negro college. and organized work projects to Pineland Hospital which shows their cyer- increasing scope of interest. This yearbook is planned to show these and the many other ways students grow to meet the challenges of a changing world. 'h

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for 11140 years of service . . . The class of 1965 takes gxeat pride in acknowledging the loyalty and interest of three outstanding Bates professors. demonstrated by nearly a century and one half of service. The students and faculty of Bates are not alone in their deep gratitude. The state of Maine and the nation owe much to the trio whose sound scholarship. effective teaching. originality in scientific research. and personal influence on students. teachers. and friends the world over have proved invaluable. Although their terms as members of the Bates faculty are drawing to a close. we look forward to seeing them on campus and in the two science buildings. towards which they have contributed so much time and effort. Xl Although Dr. William Sawyer officially retired as a mem- ber ofthe Bates faculty in 1963, he is still warmly welcomed whenever his footsteps turn him homeward toward Carnegie Hall. Of the three scientists mentioned here, he has served Bates the longest. having been a faculty member since his graduation from Bates in 1913. He was a Graduate Assistant in Biology from 1913-1915, an Instructor from 1916-1921, and received his full professorship in 1929. Meanwhile, he received his lVl.A. from Cornell in 1916, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1929. He was chairman of the biology de- partment whcn he retired. His love for Bates dominated his immeasurable pride in his department. As a teacher. he believed that his time belonged primarily to teaching and to student problemsg and it was evident that he found some of the best solutions to these problems by joining his students on a mountain climb. a trail-clearing expedition, or a fishing trip. For many years he was advisor and chief innovator ofthe Bates Outing Club. At present. Dr. Sawyer is serving as director of the visiting scientists program for schools in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. This project is sponsored by the Northern New England Academy of Science and supported bv the National Science Foundation. And yet withal a quiet man who some day is going to be a professor of Biology at Bates . . . His greatest pastime is catching cats and exercising Gordon Cave. and he is equally proficient in both. Minor 1913 6 guy