Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Q KRW N tw, - v 1 xi, 334' -' 'y refs ,i it fit5ji.1VEf Mgt. tx .p fs 4 R fy, ,in , 4 ,ALIBV wi A, The people in this book are mem- bers of a university that is on the move, as it has been since its birth. Carleton is growing, but not just in buildings and numbers of students. Its qualities as an associ- ation of people concerned with knowledge are growing quickly and must continue to develop. When I was talking to a freshman one day last Fall, a few weeks after he had come to Carleton, he burst out, I love this place. I think it's the best university in Canada. He might have been a little carried away by early enthusiasm, but it is true that at Carleton we can be proud of much-and that much is mostly the faculty and students who make up the university. The intangible things that set the quality of the university community, that link its members of the present and the past, are becoming stronger each year. There has been, I believe, a major strength- ening in 1961-62. The hundreds of names in this yearbook make up a fine company of university people. 06 A. D. Dunton President and Vice-Chancellor

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Dr. Perry Young J MEM Dr. Perry Young, who died last May, was one of those men whose quiet reliability sometimes obscures the special qualities of his life and work. His colleagues and students who knew him only as a friendly but self-effacing professor of French did not perhaps realize what calls he sometimes had to make on his resources of fortitude just to perform the normal acts of community and Uni- versity service. Certainly his career had known set-backs enough. During the Great War he was seriously wounded at the battle of the Somme. Wlten he studied at Bordeaux University he was at first cruelly thwarted in his attempt to gain his doctoral degree. He had com- pleted all other requirements and was about to defend his thesis when the Nazis overran France. He barely escaped to a departing ship, leaving behind everything connected with that thesis. Convinced at war's end that all the materials of his study had been lost and that his examining professors had been killed or scat- tered or, at the very least, had forgotten him, he gave up all hope of winning his degree. But an RCMP. constable sought him out in his summer cottage, bringing an invitation from his sponsoring pro- fessor to take his doctoral examination. Professor Young found that his old friends had saved his notes and had printed the required copies of his thesis. Thus he was able to complete his studies. More than that, his doctoral dissertation, 'Vfasliington Irving at Bordeaux , received the Academic de Bordeaux award as the most important historical contribution of the year 1947. During the last years of his life, Professor Young suffered painful and strength-robbing illness. It was a measure of his service to Carleton that he did not allow that pain and suffering to impair the quiet integrity of his teaching. To that teaching he brought especially a respect for the langu- age he taught. He was never happier than when he was patiently searching out the origins of the words of that language. And he found an equal satisfaction in studies made for his private enjoy- ment, as when he probed into the buried history of Huronia, land of the Jesuit martyrs. Such gentle studies were carried on against a background of the good family life, with his wife, Margaret, and with his daugh- ters, .Iudy and Ann, of whotn he was so proud. He should have been proud too of his fourteen years of serving Carleton. He shared the early, struggling growth of our young institution, and lived to see its present strength. Before he died he must have had a glimpse of its future greater power. It is a good thing that he experienced so much of the full ton- fident development of what he had helped to create. llut it is .1 sad thing that Carleton University should lose suth .1 man, Page 5

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This past busy year has confirmed a certain impression I have long had of Carleton, that is, of a kind of perpetual youthfulness. It is not easy to realize that 20 years have gone by since Dr. Tory began to recruit his first band of teachers, when Carleton was an idea and a hope, but a lively idea and a vibrant hope. The realization of that hope has involved many people: those who teach, those who learn, those who provide money for buildings and special projectsg those who serve Carleton in half- a-hundred different ways. I think most of the spirit of youthfulness comes-as it ought to come-from those who are them- selves young. The graduates of Carleton come and go without ever seeming to become old. One of these days we may discover abruptly that time has caught up with us. But that day is not yetg and for the present, I hope there may be enjoyment to the full of all that Carleton has to offer, to its students in course and to its graduates after graduation. By this means we shall help to build a better university and a better community. Good luck to you all. e 0,, Du james A. Gibson Dean