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

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Dr. Peter Sammurlino President of the University :N' -.F. .r- K u Dr. Loyd Haberly Dr. Richard M. Drake Decm 0f the College of Liberal Arts Provost

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Introduction Over c1 period of Weeks, Michael Puvitt has come in to see me to urge that I prepare this statement for the 1986 COLUMNS. Each time 1 said. l'Shortly, shortly. The hesitation emerged from :1 personal sense of uneasinesa about the incppropriateness of a statement limited to the usual hundred words of COngratulcxtions and kind sentiments. We have worked closely with one another in mutual enthusiastic seeking and in strained diilering. It has been both enjoyable cmd pain- tui. For good reasons, I have lelt this relation- ship with members of your class such as Laura Grand, Michael Pavitt, Lynn Blacker, Lewis Matzkin and others in ct way that I have not ,hx Ne VCE I'- with previous classes. There was, then, the desire to attest that you have made a wonder- tul contribution to the life of the Florham- Madison Campus ot Fairleigh Dickinson Uni- versity and that we have served you equally well, But there was also the desire to express cm uneasiness concerning your readiness for an enlarged role in CI complex world in traumatic flux. Have we adequately prepared you? Have you adequately prepared yourself? What conCemS me is not only your readiness to cope with the visible and dramatic problems, such as relations with China. but also readiness to cope with the more subtle problems: tor example, how we can preserve and. strengthen the national focus on the individual as the pur- pose ior which we create rather them by slow erosion, ctlwuys lamented, dilute 02nd weaken the locus and, gradually. come to regard the individual as the adaptor. Did we do. cmd did you do. what was needed to prepare you with a sense of altruism, a faith in the virtue of seIf-relicmce. a deep emotional commitment to justice, cm ability to teel and sense as well as to reason. and a willingness to stand tirm in stress? I hope we did and that you did. It is not that technical proficiency in a proiession, enjoyment of leisure. or expertise in conviviality are unimportant. It is these should be in locus rather than the locus. More than halt of you are now on your way to graduate school, and I expect that at least half of those not entering graduate school im- mediately will do so within the next two or three years. This is symbolic of the purposes I have groped toward above e cm ever-growing need to question and to seek insight at ever deeper levels. With kindest personal regards and good wishes, Samuel Proztt Dean Dr. Samuel S. Pratt Dean

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The Board of Trustees Henry P. Becton Arthur A. Kron Samuel I. Silbermcm Fairleigh S. Dicldnson Edward T. T. Williams Chairman Peter Summariino Secretory Harold L. Sloan