Edinboro University - Tartan / Conneautteean Yearbook (Edinboro, PA)

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IN MEMORIAM ,115 C.J. CHRISTENSEN A.B., AM., PH.D. AS A SOCIOLOGl5T,I CONGRADULATE THE INCOT1- ING FRESHHEN ON ENTERING FOUR YEARS OF THE HAP- PIEST SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT THEY SHALL EVER FIND IN THEIR LIVES. SO sPoKE DR. CHRISTENSEN THE LAST TlI IE THAT HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE WHOLE STUDENT BODY IN ASSEMBLY, ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER II, WHEN DR VAN HOUTEN INTRODUCED THE FACULTY TO THE FRESHFIEN AND NURSES. I IAY THAT FEELING OF SOCIAL RELA- TIONSHIP, COHRADSHIP WITH EACH OTHER AS MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF VIANKIND, BE LEFT WITH BOTH OLD AND NEW ALIKE A5 A PARTING GIFT FROM THE I IAN WHO IN LIFE HA5 GIVEN U5 SO MUCH. WE REVIEFIBER HIFI NOT ONLYASA TEACHER BUT A5 AN ADVISOR ANDA FRIEND T0 ALL, REGARDLE53 I

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OF SOCIAL OR SCHOLASTIC STANDING. WHEN ONEOF THE STUDENTS ASKED DR. CHRISTENSEN HOW HE COULD LIKE ALL PEOPLE AS HE om, HE ANSWERED, I LIKE PEOPLE NOT FOR WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN OR ARE, BUT FOR wI-IAT THEY CAN ec OR aEcorIE. ALTHOUGH DR. Cl-IRISTENSEN WAS ONE OF THE BUSIEOT I IEN ON THE CAMPUS, HE WAS NEVER TOD BUSY TO HELP SONEONE. WE HAVE ALI.. KNOWN HIFI ASA GOOD LISTENER AS WELL AS A GOOD TALKER, UNSTINTING WITH HIS TII IE AND ENERGIES. PERHAPS IT NIJAS THIS LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING or HANIIINI: THAT mos HIFI A FINE TEACHER AS WELL AS A SYIVIPATI-IETIc ADVISOR AND FRIEND. I-IE TAucI-IT ERoI'I I-IIs HEART A5 WELL AS FROFI Hus BOOK. NANY OF THE STUDENTS HAVE OFTEN EXPRESSED REGRIET THAT THEY NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A CLASS WITH DR.CI-IRISTENSLN. YOU GET MORE THEN .Iusr THE SUBJECT FROFI HIFI, THEY SAID. ws HAY LITTLE use NOR LONG REHEI-'IBER THE PAGES AND PAGES OF TEXT Boon VIATERIALTHAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED IN SOCIOLOGY COURSES, BUT WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE SIVIPLE FACTS BROUGHT HOME TO US AS HE DENONSTRATED POINT AFTER POINT WITH HONEY EXAMPLES OR WITH EXPERIENCES FROVI HIS OWN LIFE. HE LEDAEULL LIFE,AND HE IINEI4 HOW TO I-IAHE HIS EXPERIENCES VALUABLE TO oTI-IER:-3. Abovr: ALL, I-IIs uNIvERsALITYoE THOUGHIQ HIS PHILOSOPHY, HIS TOLERANCE AND PATIENCE BASED UPON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD AND UPON THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOIBLE5 OF' VIANKIND LEFT ALL OF US WHO HAD THE PRIVILEDGE OF SITTING IN HIS INFORYIAL cLAssRoom A LITTLE DROADER, A LITTLE YIORE ABLE TO TAKE ouR PLACE IN SOCIETY.