Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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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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the Barn as the center for spiritual gatherings. The Goucher campus of tomorrow will also include a swimming pool, a Maintenance Center, and new dormitories. These new facilities will not only add grace and convenience to the physical layout of the Coucher College campus, but will also enrich the life of the entire college community. However, our new buildings will serve little purpose if our individual mental development is not commensurate with the physical expansion of the college. We young women have far more opportunities than our Goucher sisters had seventy-five years ago. Unlike them, we can enter the professional world and in nearly every area can take our places beside men as their intellectual equals. We are grateful to the anniversary program for stressing the prob- lems that we will be called upon to cope with immediately after our graduation. We are grateful to the Coucher faculty for tcguiding the course of our personal development so that it harmonizes with the good of the community?9 Couchervs destination is expansion; so is the destination of her daughters eexpansion of their facilities of clear thinking, originality, and discrimination.