Connecticut College - Koine Yearbook (New London, CT)

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L4 By her rare combination of gifts, President Park has been able to meet the demands of two semingly contradictory areas of life, scholarship and business administration. Her eminent career as a scholar in- cludes an A.B. summa cum laude and an M.A. from Radcliffe, and a Ph.D. degree with distinction from the University of Cologne, Germany. Coming to Con- necticut College in 1935 and proving her excellence in scholarly disciplines, she turned her genius toward ad- ministration. She .was made Dean of Freshmen in 1941, Academic Dean in 1945, and President in 1946. As President, she has guided Connecticut College during a period that has seen it become more highly recognized for its academic standards, superior faculty, and progressive aims. Always willing to accept change not for newness but for value, Miss Park, more than any other, has molded the College with a forward- looking policy, expanding its academic offerings and facilities. Among the accomplishments achieved under

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DEDICATION The attainment of the fullest and most meaningful potential of personal existence is the goal of every member of this community. To Rosemary Park, President of Connec- ticut College, who has shown us by deeds that such a goal is not impossible to attain and is well worth striving for, we gratefully dedicate the 1962 Koine. It is rare that a college is fortunate enough to have a President, who personally em.- bodies all that one hopes to teach and learn and is the living illustration of the highest goals of education. Miss Park is such a person. Believing that education is a total and unending experience, she has courageously entered the arena of many of life's offerings, any one of which might stagger a lesser person, and has distinguished herself and Connecticut College in all of them. Although one might suspect that there could be no time for warm. th, depth, and probing in so full a life, it is precisely her warmth of understanding and her constant search to experience life in depth by knowing it in full, that has made Miss Park not only successful in all undertakings, but also admired by all who know her.

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her leadership are the stablishment of a Master of Atts program in College for Men and the institution of a new and better cur own personality, she has helped to instill a spirit of intellectual enabling Connecticut College to become the academic equal of However, the College has not only increas- ed in quality, but also in quantity during Miss Park's administration. To meet the demands of the increasing enrollment, the College has