Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Dear Emersonians: The bewildering complexities of our age offer an insistent challenge and an unparalleled opportunity for all individuals and institutions with still undeveloped potential for growth and service. What we have available in our science and technology, our productive capacity, our mobility, our means of exchanging goods, information, and ideas is far out of line with our individual capacity to grasp its relation to ourselves or to organize ourselves to use it to achieve human aspirations and values. The continuance of a free society and the achievement of balanced progress will require the development of the full capacities of every man and woman to the point that they may think and work at their highest level and live in full communication and free asso- ciation for the definition and achievement of common goals. We believe the pattern of educational experiences you are now completing has been the one best adapted to your balanced growth. The insights from reading have been balanced by the challenge of oral expression. The confidence from growing professional competence has been enhanced by the emphasis on initiative, leadership, assumption of responsibility, and the necessity to do your very best in public performance. But this growth has only increased your capacity for further growth. You have skills and the potential capacity for creative thinking and leadership which are needed as never before. You have developed the capacity for a life of service and, increasingly, in our society the great rewards are associated with service in helping people live and work together But a career in the service of our society must be firmly based on personal and professional integrity if it is to endure. The temptation to seek short-cuts must be resisted, there must be a curtailment of egotism, there must be a real respect and concern for those you seek to serve. This is also a period of growing responsibilities and opportunities for your college. Year by year the Class of 1962 has built its leadership in campus thought and activities. We look forward to the steady growth of your influence in the alumni thought and activities which are essential if Emerson is to fulfill its responsibilities and take full ad- vantage of its opportunities in this age of educational crisis. We will miss you on campus and will look forward to your Founder’s Day and Commencement visits and to the Beacon’s reports on your activities. Whether it be one year or sixty years from now you will always find on campus members of our Emerson family who are deeply interested in you and in your life and career. Sincerely yours, 8 S. Justus McKinley, President

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s. Justus McKinley President of Emerson College He who knows, and knows he knows , — He is wise — follow him.” Arabian Proverb Education is both individual and collective. The life of the student is, at one and the same time, lonely and gregarious. From the moment of birth until the moment of death, one learns and is taught; leads and follows, or more accurately, follows, that the ability to lead may be acquired. This then, is one of the primary goals of the academic institution. We listen, we com- prehend, we question, we assimilate. This is learning, and the attitudes and abilities it inscribes on the individual may be measured in direct ratio to the leadership experienced during the process. In many ways, the ultimate responsibility for this leadership may be attributed to the President of the institution from which it stems. But leadership must have a place to develop. Just as equally, the responsibility for the growth of the physical plant may be laid at the door of that office at 130 Beacon Street. In relation to the Class of 1962, Dr. McKinley has faced and accepted these responsi- bilities with equal success. We do not presume that following a wise man has made us wise, or that we know. We have grown as the college has grown. Let us now prove ourselves worthy.