Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Associate 1-he RAVEN i .4 Dan Sullivan Editor-in-Chief Phyl Derby Secretary-Treasurer 950 7, Peggy Ch ngan Associate Edtor Ron Chester Don MacDonald Sales Manager Photographer -9..

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W itlzin tlzese pages Biographical sketches in the Dedication The Presidenfs Message Instructional Stag Stay? of the Raven ,50 Foreword Arts Graduates Science Graduates Commerce Graduates fournalism Graduates Engineering Class of '50 Council - Clubs - THE CARLETON Athletics Social Activities - Candid Shots 50 were wutten m munctxon NVltl'1 student represen ,msn tatives of each faculty

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of active service, comes FOREWARD When college educators look back on this post-war period, the feature that will stand out most vividly in their memories, I fancy, will be the generation of war veterans. The first the full, but it begins to large influx was in 1945-46. Now. in 1950, the tide is at recede rapidlyg soon it will be entirely a thing of the past. The younger generation, that missed both the menace and the exciting challenge rapidly along to take the places of those who are going. There is wonderful promise among these people of the younger generation, too: but before we greet them, let us recognize the privilege it has been for us, the instructors. to associate with those of the D.V.A. These years since the end of hostilities have been crowded, overloaded, exact- ing years: full of headaches for college administrators, more demanding in many ways thans any previous period. Yet everywhere one hears the same tesitmony: how richly rewarding has been the instruction of the war veteran. How stimulating to find in one's classes men and women who have know the far ends of the earth, faced death and disaster by sea and air and land, men and women who have matured without becoming bitter and cynical, men and women alert to the burning social and political issues of this unparalleled age of history. The experience for the instructor was at once a challenge and a privilege. I remember how gratified I was to hear of the sweeping plans of the Canadian government to offer to the returning service men and women the facilities of higher education, on terms that would make it possible for scores of thousands to take advantage of them. When I first heard of the D.V.A. program. my interest in it was that of a Canadian citizen onlyg but by the winter of 1945-46 I was holding 'Round Tables' and other informal sessions in the basement of Knox Church as a lecturer in journalism, with a fine group of D.V.A. students just back from ser- vice, and enrolled at Carleton College. of 1947, when I found myself in charge ly d1'awn from the generation of war tructors of Carleton College when I graduating classes of '48 and '49: and Opportunity widened again in the autumn of a department whose students were large- veterans. I know that I speak for all ins- remember with affection and respect the those who are portrayed and celebrated in this Year Book. We see them going out to take their place in Canadian life and societyg and wish them all, whether war veterans or not. the satisfactions of a rich, varied and challenging life. ,flfyiffzacf gggfsiton 10 -