Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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DEDICATION The face on this page explains, visually, the thought behind our dedication. It is the countenance of a gentle man. It is a visage which, in every curve and line, states, try to understand. From this man we have come to understand. We have realized that we are not the be all and end all of existence”. Through him we have come to understand that ours is the job of questioning. We cannot simply assume that all of the answers have been given us within these walls and that w 7 e need only enter the w ' orld, expound what we have been taught and sit back to reap the profits of our sown words. Instead, it is our job to try to understand the successes and failures of those who have gone before us and to measure our successes and failures, not by the size of our bank accounts, but, by what we have been able to add to the sum of the world’s knowledge. Within us is the ability to try to improve or destroy the world. Within us is the power to construc- tively shape or damnably warp the minds and bodies or our contemporaries and successors. Therefore, we dedicate not this book, which after all is the efforts of a few, rather, we dedicate our minds and the good they may do in the world, to a man who has helped us to try to understand, Doctor Theodore Thass-Thienneman. 7

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TO GROW IS TO LEARN 6

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Dear Emersonians: It is my happy privilege to speak in the name of all of the thousands of members of our College Family in greeting the Class of 1961 and extending congratulations and good wishes to each member as you approach the end of your period of undergraduate study and development. In the past four years the Class of 1961 has had an increasing influence in our campus life. You have now handed your positions of campus leadership and, as an alumni class, will begin building your influence and leadership in the College as a w’hole. As the years go on you will assume more responsibility in alumni activities, you will supply members of the Corporation and Board of Trustees, some of you will return to the campus as members of the faculty and administration. The world of change in which you and your children will live offers a constant and increasing challenge to individual growth and development. Our Double Decade program affirms that we, as a College, are accepting that chal- lenge. We feel that your twentieth reunion will prove that you, as a class and as individuals, have responded nobly to the challenge. Happiness is something that accompanies the balanced use of your capacity for intellectual, emotional and physical activity. I could wish you no better fortune than to always have worthwhile achievable goals; goals which are within your reach but for which you must stretch to achieve. But in a society with so many dynamic forces this implies a lifetime of study; study of new ways of doing things, study of the new knowledge of how things work to be provided by the physical and social sciences and, ever more important, study and thought about what is worth doing. We who remain on campus will miss you and look forward to your letters and return visits. But please remember that even when all of us have left the campus, your College is in a very real sense your home. No matter where you live or how long you live, it is here you will always find those who arc interested in you, concerned with your sorrows and rejoicing in your successes and sharing with you many interests and worth while goals. Sincerely yours,