Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Alberta Arthurs - President My first year at Chatham College has been full of surprises, full of discoveries, full — as college years should be - of opportunities to learn. Like the seniors who must leave this year, I ' ve spent the past months absorbing the environment around me, making friends, finding the many, many links between the College and the larger society that surrounds it. Reluctantly, I see the college year end; reluctantly, I see this class leave. I feel that these months have passed all too quickly. I believe I have found in this first year much of what is to be valued in this unique place. The faculty is to be valued for its devotion to students and to scholarship, for its experience and educational objectives. The students themselves are to be valued for their strength of purpose and their intellectual spiritedness, qualities I believe are developed in a small college experience. Chatham ' s buildings and grounds, the Jennie King Mellon Library and the Chapel and the Play Room and Benedum are the many special places that make the College visibly unique. Chatham is a place to learn, a place to grow, a place to remember; a proud and unusual place with histor) ' to boast of It can boast as well of its committment to the future, a future in which our talented and trained women will play an increasingly significant role. I value perhaps, above all, the interplay of people here, the conversations and contentions, the kind of discourse that is possible within the small, serious academic community. Chatham is the kind of institution that inspires hard work, high goals, loyalty and intellectual spirit. So, at least, it has seemed to me in my first year, and so — I hope - it seems to those who leave as the class of 1978. We will miss you, and we hope to welcome you back often as alumnae. 12

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Administration KEVIN SPIESS DOREEN BOYCE 13 RONNA M. BACK