Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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“Full professional stature is not attained through the mere acquisition of a professional degree followed by internship or similar supervised professional experience, but is acquired through carrying on personal postgraduate self-education from the experience which is provided by his work and life. Once formal education is over, each person in a working team must focus his attention and energies upon getting his work done, yet the lessons of experience which this work provides will be as powerful as those offered in his supervised undergraduate study. So long as the professional worker follows his profession, experience will influence him and strengthen or impair his professional stature. There is no escape. And what it does to him will depend upon him, and upon him alone. It is thus very important for all professional people, no matter how recently or how many years ago they have ceased to be students, to be sure that this postgraduate self-education is good. Elliot Dunlap Smith Provost, Carnegie Institute of Technology Dedication A member of the administration for the past fifteen years, Elliot Dunlap Smith has had a large part in the renaissance on Carnegie Tech’s campus. As Provost, his chief responsibility has been the development of all undergraduate education and the designing of a new social relations program which has contributed heavily to the development of methods in the new Carnegie Plan. Believing that constant improvement and expansion are necessary, he is delighted that the current expansion program emphasizes quality, not quantity. This program is the culmination of years of study and planning during which the Carnegie Plan as an actual thing has adopted its present form. Its social relations program and its emphasis on the creative use of technical knowledge are two of the factors which cause Carnegie to excel as an academic institution; it was largely through Provost Smith that these developments took place. Provost Smith's personal plans for the future include moving to New Haven, Connecticut where, as a fellow at Yale University’s Saybrook College, he will continue his writing and consulting. To him, one of Carnegie’s leaders whose contributions in education and administration have made this expansion program an actual thing, we gratefully dedicate the 1958 THISTLE. May his future be as rewarding and productive as his years here have been. 6 Elliot Dunlap Smith

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Renaissance Donner Hall, new fraternity houses, an influx of young faculty, the new social relations program, and the Carnegie expansion project are but a few evidences of a subtle yet all-encompassing change which Carnegie as an institution is experiencing. The most important part of this metamorphosis is the intangible— the emphasis on thought and the future. This year's seniors have experienced a transition in their four years here, yet its effects won't be fully felt for several years. It has included a startling growth in the number of student activities and a corresponding growth in the student body’s interest in them, a strengthening of the faculty by the addition of capable, young members, an emphasis on the creative use of technical knowledge, and an. expansion program stressing quality, not quantity. It is an exciting, stimulating experience which can lead us, participants in it, to a more active, more intelligent use of our abilities and lives. It provides us with the tools which will enable us to enrich our lives to their greatest potentiality. In this way, the renaissance at Carnegie holds a special meaning for each of us. On the following pages, we show the still incomplete picture of this renaissance and some of the effects when “the old order changeth yielding place to new.” 8