Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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DR. RICHARD D. PIERCE Dean of Emerson College Dean Pierce has understood us and taught us. This means that through our years at Emerson College he has worked with warm dedication with President McKinley, helping him to perform his uniquely difficult task in seeing to our guidance and instruc- tion. It also means that he has been ready at all times to be a good friend to any one of us. Intellectually rich, able to gauge personalities with insight, and gifted with a most wry and subtle humorous sense, his place in our years as scholars is secure. 11

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Dear Emersonian, Can America survive as a free society? This is the great question of our age. A free soci- ety depends upon the decisions of many millions of individuals. In this age of complexity and change the citizen must be adequately educated and must participate in an ever improv- ing system of communication if he is to avoi d mistakes disastrous to himself and to the com- munity. He must have the opportunity to consider what is worth doing as well as learn how to do things and how many things work. There is a great need for liberally educated men and women who combine communication skills with integrity, initiative, imagination and social responsibility. The social characteristics of our day give peculiar importance to the role of the alum- nus of the small college. This provides many opportunities for satisfactions and service. As the years go by your membership in your class will be increasingly meaningful and bring satisfaction that will well repay the time and effort devoted to maintaining your or- ganization and communications. In our mobile society few stay long enough in neighborhood, town or professional groups to put down deep roots. It is only in your college that you are never forgotten and always of importance as a member of the college family. Many of the pressing educational needs of the years ahead can best be met by the small colleges. Emerson is facing the challenge of a great opportunity and a great responsi- bility for expansion and growth. This is equally a challenge to our alumni who will in large part determine the degree of our success. The Class of I960 has made a fine record and has earned the affection and esteem of the faculty, administration and fellow students. We feel confident that you will continue to grow and develop and that each five year reunion will show increasing justification of our pride in you. Sincerely yours, 10 S. Justus McKinley, President.

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MRS. RUTH SOUTHWICK MAXFIELD Dean of Women If we could look into the hearts of those graduating this year who have been guided and strengthened in time of confusion and uncertainty; if we could read the thoughts of those graduating this year who have been cheered and befriended by a word full of humour or wisdom which has held particular meaning and insight; if we could assess even half ac- curately the influence for good in creating sounder, broader intellect and character that has been extended to the members of the graduating class; It would then be quite simple to inscribe here the thanks of the members of the class of I960 to Mrs. Ruth Southwick Maxfield and Mr. John Howard Ahlin. Thou wert my guide , 12