Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison - Columns Yearbook (Madison, NJ)

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Dr. Clarence Decker - Vice President Dr. Decker came To Fairleigh Dickinson UniversiTy afTer serving as PresidenT of The UniversiTy of Kansas CiTy. As Vice-PresidenT of our University, he has been responsible for The acquisiTion of sTafT and faculTy members of naTionally recognized eminence. FurTher, wiTh his assistance Two granTs were awarded To Fair- leigh Dickinson UniversiTy from The Ford FoundaTion. As culTural supervisor of The UniversiTy, Dr. Decker is in charge of The conTinuing search for new courses Dr. Clarence R. Decker and programs To be added To The presenT academic sTrucTure of The UniversiTy. In his capaciTy as Vice- PresidenT, he has Traveled all over The counTry and has sTudied The programs of many public and privaTe schools. As a resulT of his invesTigaTions and his desire To conTinue The culTural growTh of The UniversiTy, Dr. Decker has esTablished as one of his chieic goals The creaTing of a cenTer of humanisTic sTudies in The Col- lege of Liberal ArTs. Dr. Drake became ProvosT of Fairleigh Dickinson UniversiTy afTer serving as Chancellor aT The UniversiTy of Kansas CiTy. He is in charge of The adminisTraTion of universiTy academic policies concerning curriculum and personnel. His posiTion also involves appoinT- menT and reappoinTmenT of universiTy sTafT posiTions and regulaTion of sTafT salaries. Dr. Drake's policy is one of mainTaining a uni- versiTy aTmosphere which will aTTracT and reTain Teach- Dr. Richard Drake - ProvosT 6 Dr. Richard M. Drake ing abiliTy of The highesT caliber. As ProvosT, Dr. Drake, dedicaTed To The improvemenT of Fairleigh Dick- inson UniversiTy, aTTemst To adminisTer To The needs of The UniversiTy by performing cerTain duTies in The specific areas ThaT are embodied wiThin The ToTaI framework of The UniversiTy. Even Though The Three campuses may be somewhaT diFferenT, Dr. Drake is pledged To serve The UniversiTy as a whole. Indeed, he has kepT his pledge.

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PresidenT SammarTino I O ,, , . s a- -4' 1X Q I' .- ' , E 5T ' i? F ; .t T x o, 2: .V Y - f 115' i ii- . . . - J rnrwo-ua-rr p-c-a deN r On December 3, 1941, Dr. SammarTino and his associaTes esTablished Fairleigh Dickinson as a Two-year college. Because of HS rapid developmenT, iT was expand- ed in 1948 To a four-year academic insTiTuTion. The PresidenT's goal is To mainTain The presenT level of enrollmenT and To conTinue advancing The academic sTandards of The UniversiTy. Thus, The emphasis is a qualiTaTive raTher Than a quanTiTaTive one. Dr. SammarTino sees The main Task of The adminisTraTion as one of conTinued sTriving for excellence in all aspecTs of universiTy life. Through his exTensive Travels and inTeresTs in inTernaTional affairs, Dr. Sammar- Tino has gained wide recogniTion abroad for himsehC and for The UniversiTy. This awareness of The viTal imporTance of mainTaining an inTernaTional ouTlook is ex- emplified by Fairleigh Dickinson's newly acquired graduaTe school in England and by special UniversiTy programs designed To reduce The cosTs and enrich The experi- ences of Travel abroad. Dr. SammarTino's global perspecTive and widely ranging inTeresT in human affairs is refiecTed in The characTer of Fairleigh Dickinson UniversiTy.

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Deon Pratt In the past four years, we have built together, in part by replication and in part by innovation, a community of scholars that is a distinctive social system expressive of a contemporary educational philosophy. The Class of 1968 will be absorbed into this structured community; the Class of 7964 had to help form the community. A few of the many aspects of that growth may be mentioned. There was the transformation of the carriage house into modern science laboratories, the stables into the Fine Arts center, the orangerie into the library, and the construc- tion of Twombly Hall with its facilities for nearly 500 dormitory students. The student community grew from a few hundred to a predicted 1,000 next fall, and the composition changed from a large majority of commuting students to a majority of residential students drawn in this last year from 13 states and 7 countries. A scattering of faculty grew into a community of nearly eighty, repre- sentative of the major fields of learning. Curricular growth was wide and deep. There was the launching of the first intercollegiate sport in 7960 and the growth into a seven team program next fall, the transformation of student government into the community system of Senate and Student-Faculty Board with ten sup- porting student-faculty committees, the invention of the athletic clubs, social societies, and the proliferation of the student clubs over the whole gamut of college life. While associating yourselves with this, each of you has attained your own personal educational objectives. Congratulations to each of you for the part you have played.