Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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To the Class of 1964: Many years from now you will look back upon your senior year at Coe. I be- lieve history will place in clear perspective three major events of our life together this year as follows: the signing of the test ban treaty as a first tenuous step toward peace, the progress of civil rights through the legislative halls and through the conscience of America, and the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. These events made headline news in this our last year together on the campus. How do they seem to you now as you look back on them across the intervening years? This year at Coe will long be remembered as the year of the Ford Founda- tion Grant in the amount of $1,400,000. Some day you will remember my say- ing in Chapel that this is the largest single gift ever to come to Coe and that it gives initial impetus to the raising of the $5,000,000 Challenge Fund for the College. Does that still seem like a tremendous sum, or through the years have you become accustomed to such figures in the financing of the college? Last evening the design development of the Gage Memorial Union was reviewed by the Board of Trustees. As you read this in other years you will have come and gone through the building many times, though now as I write it is simply some thin lines on the architect ' s drawing board. The Union, a new Science Building, additional dormitories, little theatre, swim- ming pool, renovation of old science hall and the library ... all these are to go forward within your first few years away from Coe. You will follow these de- velopments with interest, and some day I will see you here, and together we will look back on the far away and distant time of 1963-64. Edmund Burke once remarked, He who will not look backward with reverence, will not look forward with hope. Here on this old campus you will ever have a spiritual home. Hail and farewell. Joseph E. McCabe President

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FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION, PERSONNEL

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ADMINISTRATION JENNIE BAILEY Associate Registrar VERA BOWSER Resident Director Salter House PETER BRYANT Admissions Counselor MELVIN J. COLLINS Associate Director of Admissions NANCY DICKENS Dean of Women JAMES M. DRISCOLL Assistant Director of Admissions MYRTLE ENTSMINGER Administrative Assistant for Men, Freshman Hall