Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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To The Students of Florida Southern: When Dr. Spivey — the good genius of Florida Southern College — flew up to Taliesin about thirteen years ago this spring — he came with the avowed purpose of giving the United States at least one example of a college wherein modern life was to have the advantages of modern science and art in actual building construction. He told me he wanted me as much for my philosophy as for my architecture. I as sured him they were inseparable. As ever since, these, your college buildings, have been in continuous state of growth. Their outdoor garden character is an expression of Florida at its best. Study these buildings, because unless you do know something about the kind of building we call Organic Architecture you can ' t really know very much about anything else worth knowing. Knowing what is good or bad about a building is knowing about the life you live and how you live it if not why. So try to understand why buildings are the way they are. There is always some reason in and behind every front you see or else there is none. If there is none, then what you see is bad. To see all there is to see takes much study and much cultivation. Yes. But if you ask why whenever you see what you like or like what you see, you will start along the path of comprehension. That will be good because there can be no great life for any people without integral culture. Knowledge of the ivhy in Architecture is the true basis of a culture just now as it has ever been. All we best know about the great civilizations that have died is what we learn from their Architecture. If our civilization were destroyed now what would civilizations to come think of us as a people were they to someday look back upon what we have done and are so busy doing. What would they see, do you think. So throughout these buildings in which you study and work now, try to understand what it is all about — what it in particular means to you. What it means today and tomorrow is important because buildings last a long time. So here you will see something of your own today that is tomorroiv. And maybe the day after that. Here at least at Florida Southern is an education saga along the lines of an indigenous American Architecture and that means a culture of our own. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Taliesin West I

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE TO THE INTERLACHEN: This is my twenty-sixth year to write a little message for oirr INTERLACHEN. From year to year, I find myself thinking more and more about the men and women who have graduated from the college during my long stay. No matter where I go, I always meet some former students, who manifest a great appreciation for what the college did for them. All of this brings me great reward and deep satisfaction. After the seniors of this class go out to take up their tasks, they will join thousands of others who have preceeded them. Each one of them will go with my blessings and prayers . To the students who are to return next year, I want to wish a good summer and a pleasant experience in whatever you plan to do. All our lives are in a fluid state and none of us know what is ahead of us from day to day. .However, I am convinced that out of all of this will come a better day for the college and a better day for all mankind. Very sincerely yours. Ludd M. Spivey President