Eckerd College - Logos Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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SH HVhS ' ' ' IT fiHi HN ACTIVITIES Activities 1 960- 1 96 1 pp. 16-27 Activities 1961-1962 pp. 28-37. Activities 1962-1963 pp. 38-57. Activities 1963-1964 pp. 58-79. ration . . . passim HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE pp. 6- 1 5, 8 1 -89 ORGANIZATIONS pp. 90-95 ADVERTISERS pp. 97-112

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CLASSES Class of 1964 pp. 20-21, 24-25, 30-31, 34-35. Class of 1965 pp. 40-41, 44-45, 50-51, 54-55. Class of 1966 pp. 60-61, 64-65. Class of 1967 pp. 70-71, 74-75. Faculty S Admini

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An Interpretive History of Florida Presbyterian College History is a kind of pathology, reflecting the nature of mankind Loweth There is a babble of voices, the juke box plays love-songs only half listened to, dishes clatter, the windows reflect the pattern of the lights twice over, but not more; cream, coral, turquoise, gray, in myriad patterns, couples, groups, individuals, a grey-haired security guard, reflections from the windows, some are studying, some talk, many try to laugh away exam worries. IT IS WARM AND HUMAN AND NOISY HERE. Soon it will be time, and we will go. It will never be the same again ... for us or for those who shall come. Lights behind Venetian blinds make crazy, checked patterns in the darkness; somewhere out there intense youth seeks love. To watch, to listen, to savor with the heart, the eye, the mind, the ear, these are pleasures. To be alone, to remember in the midst of it all that we are each dying: the exquisite touch of bitterness in the midst of beauty. IT IS WARM AND HUMAN AND NOISY HERE. Who of us could have known ten or even four years ago that there would be such a night? GO, TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINS that Jesus Christ is born! Prologue in 1955 a group of representative ministers and laymen of the Synod of Florida (U.S.), with the counsel of Dr. Hunter Blakley, Executive Secretary of the Division of Higher Education of our Board of Education, concurred on the idea of a study ' s being made to discover the possibility of establishing a college in Florida. A group of outstanding educators was secured to make the study by our Division of Higher Education, with the approval of interested Florida Presbyterians. In 1956 the Synod of Florida gave official recognition to these representative Presbyterians, constitut- ing them as a Council under the administration of the Committee on Christian Edu- cation, to cooperate in every way with those making the study. The study . . . was made by co-directors Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell, Director of the Institute in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, and Dr. Francis A. Rosecrance, Associate Dean of New York University. They hod as advisors these outstanding educational leaders: Dr. Theodore A. Distler, Executive Director of the Association of American Colleges; Dr. Wilson Compton, then President of the Coun- cil for Financial Aid to Education; and Dr. Oliver C. Carmichoel, President of the University of Alabama. The study was financed through a $5,000 grant from our Board of Christian Education. In 1957 Synod officially received the finished report of the study committee and authorized the Council of Representative Presbyterians to appoint a committee for the dissemination of the study and a Ways and Means Committee to consider meth- ods by which the college could be brought into reality. In the pursuance of its work the Council modified the Ways and Means Committee into a Coordinating Com- mittee made up of top-flight ministers and elders from representative areas of the state, under the chairmanship of Dr. William H. Kodel, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Orlando. In these three years we have proceeded in as prompt and states- manlike manner as possible to determine the facts.