Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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9+t MesfUVuGLm G. Foster Butterworth ( 892- 956) G. Foster Butterworth was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1952-1956. He was a member of the New York Law firm of Cadawala- der, Wickersham and Taft, and was a resident of Rye, New York. Mr. Butterworth was noted for his work as an Episcopal layman. He was Chanceller (legal advisor and assessor) to the Bishop of the Prot- estant Episcopal Diocese of New York since 1940, Trustee of New York Cathedral (St. John the Divine), and secretary of the Federa- tion of Protestant Welfare Agencies, among other religious and hu- manitarian work. Born in New York, Mr. Butterworth received his B.A. from Columbia University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He was gradu- ated from Columbia Law School in 1916, was admitted to the bar in the same year, and began his long and successful career as an attorney specializing in estates and trusts. 6

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The 20th Century has been characterized by the total mobilization of Human Society for the purpose of propelling into motion forces capable of altering the earth’s proportions. Science has revolutionized the Universe and has brought one great and unfath- omable concepts into the focus of everyday life; it has reduced an unknown globe to a familiar environ- ment as the macrocosm is to the microcosm. The in- terplay of forces has produced an age dominated by the mechanics of scientific man’s methods of de- struction. The magnitude of these potential civili- zation destroyers is a prospect which lingers in the mind of every educated man. Cities, people, and all inhabitants of the earth’s surface have felt the im- pact of this force which, unleashed without control, could reduce cities to skeletons and make whole civilizations mere shadows of reality—civilizations too weak to be considered active! The Atomic Age— as this 20th Century has been called—offers to the future a duality: a delicate balance between progres- sion and retrogression, between human existence in the form of society and no society, between life and death... . We, the students, will soon hold this balance. It will be our dilemma. And all our hopes for the fu- ture will remain but hopes—illusory—unless we use the Atomic Age to our advantage, not as a weapon of destruction but as an instrument for the preser- vation of a way of life—our life. And so we dedicate ourselves to the work of improv- ing our ever expanding society and, although the past will act as a guide, the future shall become the theatre in the production of a fruitful Atomic Age.

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