Grand View University - Viking Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Contents Faculty 85 Administration Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Organizations Activities Sports Index 8a Ads

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'-8 f .. ...1 , ., 1, -.---Q 4 ,ai . V ..T,,-,,g.f...... r .,..............--..-..,-.....-..1 - s qpxlll- f -----v ---- f--'- We 7fwudmt'a 'llleanaye Q The service of Thanksgiving and the TreepPlant- in Ceremony, September 27, 1971, in honor Of the 8 founders of Grand View College, will be remembered I as an event which gives visibility to the sense of the early '7O's. ln a very remarkable way, the SerViCG ssion to the shared desire to acknowledge the College community's gratitude for everything through which Grand View College has won the affec tion of generations of students, teachers, and friends. lt is the late Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskj old, who in his diary speaks of the value of life in terms of its content for OTHERS. l believe that there is a growing understanding of the importance of expression in life. There is a developing sense of the need for generous consideration for others. Today, we see more clearly than in any previous de- cade that concern for others--beyond our OWN--brings rewards of new and significantattachments. I am persuaded that we shall see great advance in this direc- tion. A growing concern for others is very characteris- tic of the younger generation. gave expre ' As l listen to students and hear their comments about the seventy-fifth anniversary of Grand View College, l discover that it has for them a relevancy of its own. The students' wholly voluntary response to the observance of September 27, 1971, was truly magnifi- cent. ln and through their participation they showed the importance to the entire academic community of generous consideration of the long list of individuals-- leaders, students, and friends--who at various periods of the last seventy-five years left their mark on the development of Grand View College. The students' excellent response to enter into planned festivities, dispels any possible notion that students today are less supportive than preceding generations of Grand View students. There are changing values in college. The role K of students is growing. There is a new ring to voluntarism on the campuses of America, including Grand View College. lf l grasp the sense of the '7O's, student participation in meaningful experiences on the campus and BEYOND the campus will bring a new vitality to voluntarism and may prove to be effectively productive. It is propitious for any good college to take fruitful advantage of students' growing awareness of the need to translate their youthful concern for others into vital programs. The new interim period in the college's calendar offers possibilities for innovative ways in which to extend the experiences of students. It will be interesting to watch the developments, but this will become the responsibility of others. There is one area from which there is no escape for a college president as long as he is in office. I refer to his role in obtaining funds for the institution he heads. Grand View College's student body gives us a corps of volunteers. A college's student body is a future source of financial support. From the standpoint that they know and understand their own college, students are in a position to become partners in the work of giv- ing and soliciting funds that will help to maintain Grand.View College and cause it to become a truly important educational institution. lt is John Masefield who said, There are few things more splendid than a University . . . more en- I during . . . more beautiful. But the private college cannot fulfill its mission in the decades ahead of us .Kr without financial support from all of its friends, in- cluding the alumni. William Graham Sumner, who distinguished himself as professor of political and social science at Yale, wrote in 1870: ' No graduate of the college has ever paid in full what it cost the college to educate him . . . If every graduate who could afford it should give the college ten dollars, and others should give more in propor- tion Qas they can affordp, we should enter upon a plan whose financial soundness is unquestioned. We should be applying principles which are thoroughly in sympathy with the idea of this popular and democratic age, and we should reach results which we can never attain by waiting for the tardy generosity of a few men of extraordinary wealth. I