Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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.

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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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As Donnybrook Fair goes to press, a rather momentous event is in the oHing. It comes about every four years and in this, G0uchefs 75th, takes on the dignity borne by another facet of our anni- versary celebration. The event is our Mock Political Convention, in which the entire college takes part, and from which comes G0ucher93 choice for Presi- dent of the United States in the year 1960. In the process of bringing about the selection of our candidate, some changes become evident: the fourteenth of May becomes a red-letter day; the eleven houses become eleven states, each having its own idea of a suitable nominee; a bull roast tthe entire bullU is placed on the agenda for the big day; and slogans, buttons, and promises are distributed with generosity. Keynote speakers of renown are invited to take part, and the issues of federal aid to municipalities and urbanization tkey woch are placed on the projected platforms. Mock Political Convention Not included in the actual events of the day, but outstanding in general value to the student body is the basic purpose of the Mock Political Convention: to bring to the attention of us thinking women the importance of national and local poliu