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Publication of this book in 1986 finally rectifies the misguided decision made many years ago by Grinnell College when it refused to print the 1966 yearbook. It is also a belated recognition by the college of the crucial importance to our society-and to education-of the First Amend- ment to the US. Constitution, which guarantees a free press and freedom of speech. I am grateful to Grinnell College President George Drake for agreeing, on behalf of the college, to publish the book. Also appreciated is the support of college alumni Michael Horwalt, Marilyn Drake Jackson, Tom Lannom, Carol McConochie, Georgia Mickey, Karen Adkinson Reixach, and Professor Joseph Wall, all of whom encouraged the college to finally publish Grinnell College - I966. Proceeds from the sale of this printing of 2,000 copies will be contributed to the Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund at Grinnell College. What follows is the original text of Grinnell C allege - 1966. The original layout has been followed exactly, and every photograph is included. The illustrations have been reproduced from the original prints which were made in 1966 and which have spent the last twenty years in a safe deposit box in a Grinnell bank. The text and picture captions were typeset in 1968; the type galleys were retained in hopes of someday publishing the book and have been used here without change. Henry Wilhelm Grinnell, Iowa March 1986
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both implicitly by the kind of material selected for inclusion and explicitly by the editorial comment that tlthe development of an individual social consciousness was not viewed as a very serious matter by a faculty and administration who generally had little social consciousness of their own? Here we have the hyper- bolic accusations of self-appointed coxswains damning the crew for not pulling with the proper vigor to get on down the stream. But neither the exhortation of the editors for greater speed nor the reluctance of the faculty and administration to push harder in the race for change was to have any great effect on the movement and direction the college was to take in the next few years. The current was accelerating and, willy-nilly, the college was being carried along with it. With the advantage of hind- sight we can discover in these pages a great many indications of the rapids that lay ahead: for example, the amount of space that is devoted to a few students openly defying college social regulations tincluding the section on a tlpot panyii at Grinnell, which was the initial cause of the controversy over the printing of the bookl; the emphasis that is given to such extracurricular activities as the choir, the orchestra, intramural athletics, theatrical productions, and informal jazz and rock sessions in the student union, with the implication that the students learn as much, if not more, by creative participatory performance as by formal instruction; and the stress that is laid upon the need for meaningful student involvement in the governance of the college. These are important precursory pages to provide an understanding of the abrupt internal collegiate changes which were to come. We also find here evidence of the forceful intrusion of the outside world into what had previously been the smug, compla- cent tranquillity of most American campuses, an intrusion which would dramatically affect college life within the next three years: a picture of male students lining up to take the draft deferment test, with the wry student comment, ttYou know what happens if you screw this oneil; the picketing of a CIA recruiter on campus; the posters denouncing the war which in 1966 were beginning to appear here as suddenly and as ominously as the itMene, menell handwriting on the wall at Belshazzaris feast. We were in that year of 1966 becoming a divided country, and, whether by design or by intuition, the creators of this yearbook, like latter-day Daniels, introduce this theme of internal division on the very first page of the book. The title page shows us a photograph of two professors who have just concluded a public dialogue on existentialism and God. Around each professor there is a cluster of students, and each group has turned its back on the other. Here are the two poles in American society, one representing Aristotelian authority, soci- etal order, and the heretofore accepted eternal verities; the other representing Socratic questioning, individual licence to be onels self, and experiential relativism. That single photograph sets the tone for the entire book. And the story of Grinnell C allege - I966 appropriately concludes with a shot of a wonderful bit of graffiti scrawled on the wall by the public telephone in the student union which contains the quotation: Existentialism is absurd. Life And below it another quotation: Life is absurd. Sartre There we have a fitting epitaph forthe book, the college. and the nation in the year 1966. :ktlwk It is not my intention in writing the introduction to this book to go into the details of the controversy between the college administration and the student editors that resulted in the yearbookis not being published under the colleges imprint at the scheduled time. As one of the principals in this case who, along with Professor Charles Cleaver, attempted to negotiate a settlement between Editor Henry Wilhelm and then President Glenn Leggett which would result in the books publication. I sincerely regretted at the time a and still do - that Grinnell College - 1966 did not appear in the spring of 1967. But in reviewing the manuscript in preparation forthe writing of this introduction, I have also come to the conclusion that its publication at this late date makes it a more meaningful volume to its audience today than it could possibly have been had it appeared as scheduled. Two decades later. with the historical perspective we now have, we can see in it a greater significance than we could have possibly appreciated in 1967 - perhaps even a greater significance than the editors themselves realized at the time. In any event, we are indebted to President George Drake, to Tom Lannom of the Class of 1966 who encouraged its resurrec- tion, to the members of the Classes of 1966 and 1967. and to Henry Wilhelm, John Phillips, and John Wolf, who hold the copyright on this manuscript, for making this remarkable institutional record available to the larger audience which it deserves. Joseph F. Wall Professor of History Grinnell College January 1986
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