Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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civic affairs reflect one of the ways that our personal development has been harmonious with the good of the community. The Field Politics Center, the Center for Sociological Study, volunteers at the Rosewood State Training School, McKim Com- munity Center, and the Perry Point State Mental Hospital are just a handful of the infinite ways that Goucher College serves the Baltimore community. The doors of the Barn are always open to anyone who wants to attend public lectures7 concerts by prominent musicians, and special seminars. Yet our participation in the seventy-fifth anni- versary celebration has shown to us that Coucher College7s influence extends beyond the city limits of Baltimore. Eighty-nine percent of Coucher girls are not natives of Baltimore and consequently Coucher's inculcation of the values of citizenship will neces- sarily spread to cities throughout America. This seventy-fifth year has been a dynamic milestone for Coucher, for Baltimore, for America. As we re- assessed the human values in the emerging Ameri- can city terms like tturban renewalT and aTmaster planning7 were no longer ambiguous sociological jargon. Instead they became concrete, crucial problems that we f uture citizens will be called on to solve, with the aid of our liberal arts educations. A Dynamic Milestone

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Goueher in its 7 5th year An astute junior, passing a sign announcing the subject of the biological science seminar, affixed hve words which reflected the conscious participa- tion of the entire Coucher community in the seventy- fifth anniversary celebration. Amended, the title of the lecture read: a4Production 0f laminar lesions in the cerebral vortex with high energy ionizing radia- tions in the emerging American city? This was merely an amusing sidelight t0 the serious con- sideration of the year-long study of H uman Values in the E merging American C ity. It was an appropri- ate theme for the anniversary events committee to select because for seventy-iive years our college has played an integral part in urban lifeefrom Balti- more in particular to any American city in general. In his Convocation Address last fall, President Kraushaar asserted, A city is meant to be the point of gathering concentration for the creative vigor and culture of a community, a means to the collective sharing of experience . . . One of the aims of the liberal education is to guide the course of personal development so that it harmonizes with the good of the communityf, Without any question this aim has materialized as evidenced by the significant position Goucher College holds in the Baltimore community. The participation of both students and faculty in

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Seventy-five years . . . a diamond jubilee . . . a dynamic milestone. Since September we have par- ticipated in an unprecedented anniversary celebra- tion which has been marked by special seminars, sounds of the quickening drumbeat, and filet mignon dinners. Prominent visitors from civic and cultural lif e took part in the celebration by helping us to see the problems that accompany the rapid growth of urbanization. Several Coucher profes- sors presented lectures and demonstrations to the hundreds who attended the Intellectual Country Fair. We students contributed, too, by donating money and time and special services to the celebra- tion and fund drive. Pictorial exhibits and colorful brochures informed the Baltimore and Coucher communities what the college had been, its present status quo7 and its hopes and aspirations for the future. If some one were to ask a present Couch- erite the motto of the college she might substitute ltHuman Values in the Emerging American Citygi for lTyratia et Veritas.w Whether by volition or by necessity every one of us has actively participated in the diamond jubilee festivities. It is now manda- tory, as we near the end of the celebration to ask ourselves the worn-out question, aSeventy-five and now whatT, Plans for the Future Our most immediate destination is an e campus which will boast of a lovely College -. housing a large auditorium, lounges, music studios, administrative offices, and rooms for extra-curricular activities. Near it will stand the beautiful non-sectarian chapel which will replace