Carleton College - Algol Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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i Mr. Yamasalu, arclutect for the college and Pres1dent Gould. President Gould speaks to the student body. The Board of Trustees of Carleton College. ,.',.. .. .ge igz - ' e' - A Q QQQWWM ll

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President Laurence M. Gould At no time in its more than ninety years of history have all of the elements which go to make up the College been.drawn to- gether in such sharp and friendly focus as they have in the De- velopment Program. . Before the program was announced by Atherton Bean '31, Vice- chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Development Com- mittee of the Board, on October 24, 1958, committees of that group and of the faculty and of the student body had been working for nearly a year trying to define the ideal Carleton toward which all of us strive. That ideal now appears in the college catalog: g'Carleton is a small, coeducational, liberal arts college. It grants admission to promising students from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds, without regard to race or religion. It aims at excellence of intellectual training, conducted in an atmosphere of Christian ethics and Christian liberalism which is its fortunate heritage. It hopes to send out graduates distinguished by their ability to make critical and independent judgments, by their de- sire to enhance their civilization with the works of their reason and their imagination, and by their will to challenge any threat to the freedom and dignity of man. The fundamental purpose of the Development Program is to strive toward the achievement of this ideal. We expect to secure the finances to insure that for the future Carleton College will pro- vide the finest education possible to young men and young women of promise. The particular function of the small, liberal arts col- lege is quality. This is the contribution which a college like Carle- ton can and must make to the total educational program of our country. It is no accident, therefore, that the title selected by the trustees for their brochure describing the Development Pro- gram should be The Pursuit of Excellence. A second part of the Development Program is to expand the enrollment modestly in order to make a Carleton education avail- able to as many outstanding young men and young women as the College can appropriately admit. To this end the Development Program proposes over the next few years to increase the enroll- ment of the College by one-third or to a maximum of thirteen hundred students. The implementation of the Development Program involves rais- ing ten million dollars over a four-year period beginning with the time when the program was announced in the autumn of 1958, The largest single item in this program is for faculty endowment. THE PRESIDENT l X t., This is where our need is greatest. To secure and keep the kind of teachers we must have at Carleton College we must have a. salary scale comparable with the very best colleges anywhere in the country. The Development Program seeks 33,750,000 for faculty endow- ment, 31,000,000 for scholarship endowment, S500,000 for student loan funds. The remainder, which totals S4,750,000, is for build- ings. . The biggest single item in the proposed building program is a new science building. The College has had the good fortune to receive a grant of 81,510,000 from the Olin Foundation for this purpose. It is hoped that gifts covering our other building needs will be forthcoming as rapidly as we shall be able to use them. When we compare the resources of this college with many others which are involved in development programs, it dramatizes as nothing else the ambitious character of our program. Never in the history of the College has it undertaken a comparable task. We are confident of success because all elements of the College are deeply committed to it. Already the responses from alumni, trustees, and other friends of the College give us great confidence in the successful outcome of the program. The success of our Development Program will vindicate for all institutions of this sort the role they play in American higher edu- cation, and of all of the institutions of higher education in this country. the four-year, liberal arts college is the oldest and is the o-ne wh.1ch.is uniquely American. No -other country has any educa- tional institution like it. In the words of Willard Thorp, It is what we needed as we grew up and it is what we still need .... it has supplied in abundance the thinkers, the solvers of moral and .political riddles, the men and women with the imagination required to keep a democratic society functioning and to lift its intellectual life above mediocrity. . . . in sum, it has always been the appointed taskuof the American college to be the seedbed of the ideas and convictions which make this nation strong and dis- tinguished. Invits pursuit of excellence, Carleton seeks to play a leading TOS? in liflng one of the seedbeds of the ideas and convictions W ,C . . . . . wi continue to make this nation strong and distinguished. Laurence M. Gould June 5, 1959

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Mr. Bruck Pollock, Vice-Presldent and Treasurer Mr. Phihp Phenix, Dean of the college THE ADMINISTRATION Mr. Robert Gale, Vice-President for Public Relations Miss Leith Shackel, Dean of Worneng Mr, Merrill Jarchow, Dean of Meng Miss Mary Ann Peterson, Assistant Dean of Women.