Hillsdale College - Winona Yearbook (Hillsdale, MI)

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Hillsdale College has long been in need of suitable audi- torium facilities. The theatre auditorium will be constructed in the near future and will be used for stage productions. The chapel auditorium will be used to supplement the Medi- tation Room as well as hosting smaller meetings. Both audi- toriums, necessary to the growth of the college, are intended as supplements to Phillips Auditorium. pnoposeo theame auoltomum

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HA .L.yg;:i;z.. 1h . tum? an a... The Main Campus Master Plan: to be completed by 1978.

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Hillsdale College - Tradition, The Now And The Future, Yes, Virginia, the spirit of independence and the desire for freedom has lived even before this genera- tion. That brave group who founded our great country - and the many others who risked their Hlives, their fortunes and their sacred honor had such a spirit. Even the churchmen who started our college risked everything to build a religious organization free to worship - independent of dictates from a distant au- thority. Hillsdale College, founded by some of these same freedom-lovers, was created after one of their formal church assemblies had adjourned. Preplanned, the adjournment permitted the assembly to conduct new business as community citizens rather than as a church body. In this meeting, Hillsdale College was born to enjoy its freedom unhampered by controls - even from its own far-sighted founders. Independence is Hillsdalets strongest tradition. But Wm M something is only part of independence. There must also be freedom f-O-r something - freedom to do, to build, to serve. Hillsdaleis other traditions have come out from this great sense of obligation and responsibility. Hillsdale College has always been creative. Its long list of educational iifirsts , including some in the year just completed, give validity to its right to be credited with a tradition-o-f innovation. Creativity demands constant re-evaluation of traditions, dropping those which bind and restrict and taking on new traditions which offer stability without negatively influencing flexibility. Examination of the records of Hillsdaleis stalwart sons and daughters brings evidence that the rugged individualistic M gioneering spirit has been caught by them in their own successful personal lives. NOW there are too many people - young and old - seeking what they call itindependence or freedoml' as though it were a new thing - a commodity paid for simply by the incident of birth. History should have taught us that there is no real freedom without daily sacrifice and compromise . . . that there is no freedom worthy of search, discovery, and continuance which does not demand restriction - which does not set up its boundaries - which does not require constant discipline from within and without. There is no freedom worthy of that name which does not insure the same unhampered privileges for others. in THE Nny we are aware that young people, par- ticularly, but not solely, are investigating traditions in virtually every facet of our ways. This is good, because with the vast majority their investigations are being made with the firm intent of developing a more purposeful, a more satisfying and a more altruistic world society. But in addition, the struggle to discovertrue individ- ual independence is being earnestly undertaken. This search has led to other inquiries. The search for life's meaning was never stronger. The process otobtaining more knowledge about ourselves was never more compelling. The individual's self-imposed mandate for fulfillment through service to others was never so demanding. These personal drives - new in the degree of indi- vidual compulsion - have created and will continue to create great frustrations - but they are also developing deeper penetration into the real understanding of fuller lives. In the midst of this meteoric shower of facts, things, and people, some adults as well as too many youth find ttinstant answers unavailable and drop out, freak out or cop out. Others regress to something not unlike their earlier childish tantrums and resort to drugs, drink, demonstrations or destruction. Hillsdale's students have borne their frustrations maturely and well - and their future is the brighter for it. mg FUTURE is anyone's guess. But, if among the traditions of Hillsdale College its leaders and students can continue to maintain that spirit of independence; if they continue to examine traditions for their useful- ness; if they live by their innovative history and dare to wear their Iaurels as a symbol of desire for perpetual seIf-examination, Hillsdale College will continue to pour into America's mainstream a select group of leaders who will understand and support the institu- tion that helped to make their productive lives possible. Even so, for those who follow you, the course of attainment will often seem as arduous as the ultimate destination is desirable. But what of value was ever obtained without struggle and sacrifice? Hillsdale College has the right to be proud of its accomplishments in opening new vistas of education and leadership for its students who choose to make our world community a better one. Its graduates should freely carry that pride. May Hillsdale College remain the center for Tradition, The Now, And The Future and may it always remember that its strongest assets will be its ability to mold the traditions of the past with its hopes for the future, in order that it may serve ever more purposefully the inquisitive searching student whose search for truth is unceasing, realistic, and constantly dedicated to the task of creating meaningful and constructive change. My best wishes go to all of you who are pictured or named in this volume as you move forward in your search for a challenging, meaningful, and worthy life. Chancellor .J. Donald Phillips