Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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COURTESY-THE CITIZEN M. TORY, D.SC., D.C.L., LL.D., F'.R.S.C., F.R.H.S. PRESIDENT, CARLETON COLLEGE CHAIRMAN. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, 1942-1943 Page five

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A Message from the President It is with great pleasure that I give a word of welcome to th-e first issue of the Carleton College Year Book. Like everything else about the College, it is a new venture. I wish it many years of success as an organ of student opinion and activity. Carleton College is a new departure in education. Established dur- ing the greatest war in history, it was founded for two reasons: first, in the hope that it would help to- keep alive the love of study in the hearts and minds of many whom the fortunes of war had taken away from School and College, bringing them to Ottawa to serve their Countryg and second, to create a new and permanent centre of higher education for the City of Ottawa and the adjacent districts. That it has been so warmly welcomed in the community is a source of gratification to those responsible for its pro- motion. We believe that in the post-war world, education will occupy a much larger place in the thought of Canadians, and that a place of great usefulness will be found for Carleton College. It has been a great source of pleasure to me personally to be again among students. I deeply appreciate the consideration shown by all of you under the trying conditions of a new departure. Next year, with a somewhat enlarged curriculum and a year of experience behind us, I am sure that we will all End the road a bit easier. That so many of the Uni- versities of Canada have agreed to accept our work as an equivalent to their own is a source of gratification and an assurance of our future. Happy days will return again after the scourge of Hitlerism has been banished from the earth, and a reign of freedom and progress again established. There will be a large place in the New World for educated men and women. The problems of democracy are complexg success in dealing with them will depend upon the sincerity and unselfish devotion of those whose education fits them for leadership. We must n-ever forget that the trained intelligence of a nation is its greatest asset, greater than any material re- source. To the students I would say: Don't be afraid of knowledge. Keep your hearts clean and your heads high. Let duty to C-od and Country occupy a first place in your thoughts, and an honourable and useful future awaits you. ,JM page four

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A History of Carleton College The Founding The vast influx into Ottawa of young people, the gr-eater part of whom had brok-en off their education to contribute to the war effort, impressed a committee of Ottawa citizens with the great need for non-denominational facilities for higher education. This committee had met under-the chair- manship of Dr. H. L. Keenleyside during l938-39 to discuss higher edu- cational facilities in the city but had discontinued its work at the outbreak of war. Meetings were again resumed and the situation was discussed with many prominent citizens of Ottawa, who, without exception, were of the opinion that permament need for such work existed in this community and offered their support and co-operation. The idea of establishing an autonomous association for the purpose of conducting a college met with very general acceptance, and operational funds were assured. The out- come was the establishment of the Ottawa Association for the Advance- ment of Learning under the chairmanship of Dr. H. M. Tory. This association has as its objects the promotion of the intellectual, social, moral and physical welfare of the community in which it operates and of those directly interested in it: the promotion of learning in any or all of its branchesg the organization and establishment of an institute of public administrationg and the immediate object of the organization and establishment of a junior college giving its first instruction in the year I942-43. The name chosen for this college was HCARLETON COLLEGEHI The Board of Governors were chosen with Dr. P. D. Ross as Honorary Chairman. The Board is comprised of twenty-one members, one third retiring every year. Dr. Tory was one of the first seven fto retire in I943J and was chosen Chairman of the Board. With unanimous consent, he was appointed the first president of Carleton College. In accepting this position, the president announced that he would not accept any remuneration. The first press announcement was issued on June 9, l942. During the summer, about l,000 enquiries poured in on the registrar, Mr. Lloyd R. Shaw, who occupied the first office of the college, located on the second floor of the Y.IVl.C.A. It was not until the college opened that the present office on the third floor of the High School of Commerce was used. Registration took place in the evenings of September I4-I8, and instead of IOO students registering as was expected, there were well over four hundred. Late registrations brought the total to almost seven hundred students. It was necessary for the college to engage additional teaching staff for th-e extra classes necessitated. page six