Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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College of Fine Arts

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Dear Student I am pleased once again to write a foreword to The thistle. The yearbook presents many reminders of school life during the past year. The thistle depicts a university through its students and shows life in a university that is continuing to increase the level of its excellence. Carnegie Mellon is striving to become outstanding in leaching, as well as in research. Already recognized as one of the leading research universities in the country, we are doing everything that we can to make certain that our performance in the classroom is at the level that will match our reputation in the lalx ratorv. In addition to our academic strivings, we are also dedicated to improving our physical plant. We want improved facilities and more recreational opportunities for our students. We want more dormitories, more parking, and. in general, a more beautiful campus. The first phase of our plan to improve the beauty of the campus has lxen started through the East Campus Project. The completion of that project w ill lx followed by work on the University Center. Our objective is to achieve excellence in all that we do. We want to make specific contributions to solving the problems of our society. This university is dedicated to the long-run greatness of our society through education and through research. We want our research to lx basic, so that the knowledge we produce will result in improvements to the quality of living of all Americans. I lowever. the world has become international. We are no longer an America that lives in isolation from the rest of the world. Increasingly, what we do here in Pittsburgh has an impact on countries all over the world. We want this fact to be imbedded in our education, and we see it as giving us an even greater opportunity to improve the lot of all human beings. You have had the lx nefit of this education. We trust that, through you Carnegie Mellon will make its mark in the world. Sincerely Richard M. Cyert President of Carnegie Mellon

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The College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon is a highly respected school. In 1914. Carnegie Mellon offered the first degree ever for drama from it’s School of Fine Arts. From then on, a standard has been set for the excellence of the fine arts program. Many respected names have graduated with degrees from this school, but only after years of following the rigorous curriculum for their department. Through persistence and talent, a person in the College of Fine Arts will graduate with a degree attached to name that is respected. The school is divided into three different categories, which are then divided again into more specialize departments. The first category, Environmental Arts, includes the Architecture and Design departments. The category of Performing Arts houses the Drama and Music departments. And the category of Visual Arts contains the Art department.