Grinnell College - Cyclone Yearbook (Grinnell, IA)

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Q 4 Q Cyclone i959 To Dr. Raymond B. McClenon. For many years Dr. McClenon, rushing from his office in Goodnow To his home, was a Tamiliar Tigure To Grinnellians. HaTIess and coaTless in all vveaTher, he never sTayed long and was loaclc in Time Tor his nexT class, alyvays carrying under his arm' a meTer sTick and a chalk board proTracTor, his only class Tools. Dr. McClenon came To Grinnell in 1905 afTer receiving his Ph.D. aT Yale and sTayed Tor 48 years. One oT The naTion's ouTsTanding scholars in Thehis- Tory oT maThemaTics, he vvas also genuinely inTeresTed in Teaching. He TaughT The alosTracT science of maThemaTics To sTudenTs for whom he made iT one of The humaniTies. A brillianT scholar and sympaTheTic Teacher, he Tempered iusTice WiTh mer- cy for The fearful and sTimulaTed The TalenTed Toward scienTi-Tic careers of dis- TincTion. Dr. McClenon represenTs for our generaTion a pioneer whose years of de- voTion To The ideal which is Grinnell provided a Tirm ToundaTion for The Grin- nell oT Today and of Tomorrow.

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We Warml dedi RAYMOND B. MCCLENON, PHD., D.Sc. Professor Emeriws of MaThemaTics

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Grinnell is . . . . . many Things. IT is a poTpourri of buildings, people, ThoughTs, acTiviTies . . . . . buildings, old and new. IT is a row of gabled dormiTories, The bulging women's gym, The park STreeT buildings-solid, square A.R.I-I., old, musTy Carnegie Library, soTT, hallowed Herrick Chapel, creaky, philosophical Y-Building, and GoThic, labyrinThine Goodnow Hall. IT is sTaTe- ly Nlagoun Hall and decrepiT Blair which will soon be replaced by a shining glass and sTeeI Tine arTs cenTer, and The gleaming new library, The Science Building and Younker Memorial HeaITh CenTer . . . I