Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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DEDICATION Four years after coming to Carnegie Institute of Technology as a history teacher in 191S, Dean Strick became head of Men's Housing and the Financial Committee. Since 1955 as Coordinator of Student Activities, he works in conjunction with the undergraduate Advisory Committee and the Faculty Advisory Committee, determining over-all policies of student extracurricular activities. As an advisor to Student Congress, Council of Fraternity Presidents, and student publications, Dean Strick has contact with a large number of students. It is in this capacity that the members of the Thistle staff have worked with him. For his sound advice and generous service, we gratefully dedicate this, the 1959 Thistle, to him. One of the development program's most enthusiastic supporters, Dean Strick looks forward with pleasure to the building of the new Activities Center. These projects in the development program, he believes, will enhance the reputation of the school by attracting and holding a distinguished faculty which will in turn help Tech gain a selective student body. During the ten years that Dr. Strick has been a part of Tech, he has noticed a growing interest on the part of the students in cultural activities and a deeper concern for the problems of education and life. If students are indeed becoming more aware of the problems they must solve as adults, it is through the wisdom and assistance of educators and administrators of Dean Strick’s calibre. 4

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FOREWORD The Carnegie Tech individual, throughout his college career, discovers that while much of his time is centered around campus activities, he also spends an appreciable amount of time participating in community affairs. The Techite learns early in his freshman year to place a wholesome limitation on his social life in order to gain time for studies and for lasting friendships. His decisions, moreover, arc governed by the values he places upon friendship, scholarship, and social life. He may join a particular Greek organization, because he has chosen the group he feels suits him best. He joins a departmental organization and an all-school activity. He limits or expands all his abilities according to his own judgement. Indeed, the life of the Tech individual at first seems to revolve entirely around Carnegie Institute of Technology. A broading of one’s interests and activities provides, for the most part, a welcome change for the student. He notices the cultural, education, and recreational opportunities at his disposal in the Pittsburgh-Oakland area. In this, Pittsburgh’s Bicentennial Year, additional activities have been provided for him. The Techite watches the growth of a steel city, and begins to realize his part in a community in years following his graduation. It is the Carnegie Tech individual on campus and in the community which the Thistle staff remembers as it presents the 1959 Thistle. 3

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5 Dale E. Stride, Coordinator of Student Activities