Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Howard University WASHINGTON I. D. C. TH COU.EOE Or UBERAL ARTS To the Class of 1962: It is a pleasure on behalf of the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts to congratulate and extend best wishes to the Class of 1962 on completing an important step in education. Although there is much perhaps that should be said on such an occasion as this, a self-imposed limitation is obviously necessary. It has become customary, therefore, in these messages for us to remind ourselves briefly of a major responsibility of educated men and women. Our society needs specialists but it is desperate for men and women. The splendid splinter must be replaced by the splendid man. These recent words of a professor of literature emphasize the heavy but encouraging responsibility which rests upon us outside our specialties. There is one area in which a college graduate, no matter what his specialty, can do much to support the Nation's efforts in achieving quality at all levels of education and in meeting our manpower needs. In fact, without the assistance and contribution of those who have received a stake in the accumulated experience of mankind, our task is especially difficult. In the attainment of quality in education and in our search for potential ability there arc many problems. To the consideration of one of these problems, however, you will lx able to contribute much as a result of your experience and of opportunities which will become available to you. A very rich yield in our search for potential ability is to be found among croups that have been culturally and educationally deprived, particularly if it is possible to identify the able in these groups before they reach high school. Too often in the past there has been a tendency even to avoid public discussion of this challenge, which must be faced more frankly in the future. We must explore more fully means of tapping latent talent, hitherto often neglected. We must determine more precisely what measures arc necessary both to correct the damage which various ethnic minorities have suffered and to quicken the full participation of these groups in the life of the Nation. We hope that the Class of 1962 will join the efforts of those who are striving to effect these ends and who see the increasing necessity of stimulating young, capable minds w hose development is urgently needed. Frank M. Snowden. Jr. Dean. 16

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS □

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DEAN Pj ' l)K PRANK l SNOWDEN JR Associate Dean Assistant Dean 17 DR CAKKOLI. I. Mil.I KR I)R CHARLES HI RSI JK