Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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CHURCH CONVOCATION The Rt. Rev. Jomes A. Pike was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of California on Ascension Day, 1958, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco,- formerly, he had served since 1952 os Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City. After the death of his predecessor. Pike become Diocesan Bishop of California on September 20, 1958. Among his numerous talents. Bishop Pike is the author of several books and articles in the field of federal, judicial, and administrative procedure, and is co-author of the Faith of the Church In addition to being the honored holder of many degrees, offices, and a noted author, Bishop Pike is considered one of the most controversial religious figures of our time. The Church Convocation was held on Monday, April 17th in the auditorium of Breck. The main speaker of the evening was the Rt. Rev. Jomes A. Pike who is presently Bishop of California. Bishop Pike's oddress was entitled The Church in Independent Education which has become a very large issue in national affairs today. His speech stressed the fact that the Church has a right to operate a school such as Breck because it allows the students to gain o broad point of view. This he contrasted to secular schools obliged to present a narrower outlook. Christian schools like Breck con and do teach Christianity. But the public schools, which are run by the government, by low cannot teach any form of religion. This accounts for their limited point of view. A broad viewpoint is an essential part of one's education; to ignore Christianity is to present an essentially distorted picture of Western culture. The Canon and the Bishop congratulate each other The Glee Club sings to open ceremony 12

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EDUCATION CONVOCATION On May 23, Eric A. Walker, president of Pennsylvania State University, spoke at the Education Convocation. Born in England in 1910, Dr. Walker was graduated from Harvard University: B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1932), M.S. in Business Administration (1933), and Sc.D. in Engineering (1935). In addition, he has been awarded honorary degrees by Temple ond Lehigh Universities and Elizabethtown College. After teaching electrical engineering at Tufts College and the University of Connecticut, he moved back to Harvard in 1942 as Associate Director of the Underwater Sound Laboratory, the organization that developed the homing torpedo that broke the back of the German U-boat menace. After the war, he became Director of the Ordnance Research Laboratory ond head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State University. In 1951 he was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering,-was named Vice President for Research in 1956, but was selected as President to succeed Dr. Milton Eisenhower even before he had a chance to start his new duties as Vice President. As a teacher and educational administrator, he is particularly proud of his part in establishing at Penn State the two-year associate degree program for training technicians, ond the honors program to prepare outstanding young engineers for positions of leadership in today's technological society. In addition to his public and educational activities, Eric Walker has a long and distinguished record of technical and administration consulting with research and industrial firms. it

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The religious life of Breck is firmly centered in the altar before which the faculty ond student body assemble each morning to intercede for their school, and their country, and to pray God's help in their doily lives. The Holy Communion is celebroted here each Wednesday morning before classes begin, ond three times during the school year—on All Saints Doy, Ash Wednesday, ond Ascension Day — there is a corporate communion of students and parents followed by breakfost. is VJ