Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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ttThe Coming Urban Technology: Master 0r Servant?7 was the title of the seminar held on Janu- ary 6. The group present heard the speaker, Rich- ard C. Meier, discuss the disintegrating effect as well as the great integrating potential of modern technology on human values in the American city. The Honorable Joseph S. Clark, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, was the speaker for the seminar in February, aThe Emerging American City: What are the Economic, Social, and Political Choices?77 This seminar focused on the importance of each citizen as a civic leader in the urban areas of America. The final seminar, 4TCan We Plan For The Hu- mane Cityiw, with guest speakers, John Ely Burchard and Edmund Bacon, sought to discover who is to be responsible for the building of such a city, and just how the liberal arts relate to making this goal a reality.

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Human Values in the Miss Jeanne Lowe Seminars were an integral part of Coucher's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary observance. This pro- gram, which was designed to emphasize the Ameri- can trend towards urbanism, served as a means by which the Coucher community could come in con- tact with, and also explore, some of the basic human issues created by the cities of today. Through the seminars it was hoped that all those who partici- pated in each session would be so stimulated and 12 chosen because 0 by each in regard men served as co-lea evening sessions extendl Dr. Eugene 1. Johnson, Di Center, Washington University, and Dr. Charles Frankel, Profess Columbia University, New York Cit The exhibits and special activities, wh student publications on human values in were climaxed by a major conference held college on April 8-9, a program designed to b the program to the attention of the Baltimore com munity as well as to other liberal arts colleges across the country. The five seminars, while covering the general topic of urbanism, had definite and unique char- acteristics of their own. The first one, held in October, with key speakers, Lawrence K. Frank and William H. Whyte7 was entitled, Wlihe City Today: Protector 0r Destroyerf, The seminar looked into the classic values of the city7 and inquired as to whether the city still serves as a protector of human lives and nurturer 0f marfs economic, religious, and social life, or if the rapid migration to the city with consequent chaos and overpopulation has a dehu- manizing and destructive effect on men. In November a seminar entitled ttThe Suburbs: Paradise Regained? , led by Dorothy Lee and Robert C. Wood7 again drew a group of interested spectators. An attempt was made by the seminar to assess suburban values7 and to discuss manis life in this itoff-shoot 0f the cities.

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We Salute Coucher College in its seventy-hfth year. Progress in the field of education has been the watchword 0f Coucher in the past years and we are proud to be a part of a college community so dedicated. 64May the youth of this community for genera- tions to come gather in this place to receive instruction in knowledge and training in Virtue. May they find here every condition necessary to a true and enlightened education? it It is With this idea in mind and the assurance that such will be the case in years to come, that we dedicate this, the 1960 Donnybrook Fair, to Coucher College. $Scutt, Leaves of Gold, p. 60.