Chapman University - Ceer Yearbook (Orange, CA)

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Elon E. Hildreth Vice-President and Dean ADMINISTRATION James J. Farley Vice President for Development David F. Ferris Director of Graduate Studies Carroll C. Gotten Dean of Students 28

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YEAR OF PLANNING students and faculty will remember 1965-66 as a year of planning for the college -- planning so basic and foundational that all succeeding student bodies may perhaps look back to this year as the one in which Chapman College found its true di- rection and laid down a sure future course. Inspiration for this achievement first came from the Planning Council, which is made up of re- presentatives from the faculty, administration and trustees. In response to their leadership, the Board of Trustees entered into contracts with two experienced firms to give guidance — the first with William Pereira and Associates for devel- oping a master plan, and the second with the Robert Johnston Company of Los Angeles to direct a three- year public relations and fund-raising program. While both efforts are still in their formative stages, we have already made enough progress on the master plan to place, with a feeling of confi- dence, our new library on the corner of Grand and Sycamore streets and to provide for a new science hall on the east side of Grand Street opposite our present administration building. We can do this with confidence because we see emerging a master plan concept of a campus double our present size in which Grand Street may become a central mall to be extended from Palm to Rose Avenues. As such, it will run through our present athletic field (which will be moved to a location still to be de- termined) and will be lined with tall, handsome structures which will gradually replace the present college buildings. We can be equally confident about securing the financial means for accomplishing this plan be- cause of the painstaking work of the Johnston Com- pany, After a careful survey of our image in Orange County, they recommended a three-year public relations and fund-raising program which should yield a major share of the funds needed to under- write the master plan. In all of this planning, too, we are now able to design buildings in terms of carefully projected academic and residential needs. For example, we mention tall buildings because, as a down-town col- lege, we will have to make every foot of land count. Thus architectural plans are already completed for a new science building which will reach five stor- ies in height and will house all the sciences in the growth years. Eventually the biological sciences will move to a second science building and the phy- sical sciences occupy the whole structure. In all ofthiswe are not forgetful of Chapman ' s basic purpose: to be a church-related, undergrad- uate, residential, liberal arts college of highest ex- cellence and to remain a college which places in- dividual persons and the welfare of each at its cen- ter. Into whatever organization and into whatever developments it may enter, that basic philosophy will be carried and laid down as a bedrock foun- dation. John L. Davis President

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Merton D. Brown Director of Admission with staff AND STAFF Emery E. Owens Registrar Ralph S. Gunn Business Manager Wilfred M. Landrus Director of Residence Educational Centers 29