Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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THE s.A.c. T resident s message The Lakehead Technical Institute is about to die, and be ' gloriously ' reincar- nated as the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. The Lakehead should be proud of this educational ad- vance. The people are proud, or so they say. Are the people of the Lakehead being hypo- crites? Sons and daughters are being sent to the big universities, rather than to the Lake- head Technical Institute. Why do not the parents actively support advanced educa- tion right at their doorsteps? Mostly pride! It sounds better today My son is at Queen ' s (or University of Toronto) , than to say he went to lowly L.T.I. They have also man- aged to find specious excuses which hide the real cause of this hypocrisy. Local educators recommend L.T.I, if you can ' t afford to go away to university. This type of support from the secondary school level is not going to boost the enroll- ment at the College any more than it did at the Technical Institute. I can give no ex- planation of this attitude. The effect is evi- dent, when at least ninety per cent of the university students at L.T.I, openly admit that they attended primarily because of fi- nances. We, as students, have failed to stand be- hind our school. (Exception must be made of those in technical courses, who generally exhibit more enthusiasm about the school.) We must remember that L.T.I, cannot be like the big universities which have taken nearly a hundred years to build up what are sometimes not too enviable reputations (e.g. University of Toronto ' s reputation for over- sized classes.) It will take time for the new College to achieve great stature. For the sake of the future of the school, let your pride in it appear and mention the good pomts of L.T.I., and not the petty little an- noyances which we must learn to accept, for they will always appear in life, and must be accepted. As one student stated, we are guinea pigs in the formation of a new college. Let us think of the resulting improvements to be brought about for our successors, and not of the easily overcome handicaps imposed upon us. Admittedly, this charitable attitude is sometimes hard to sustain when someone asks us what we are doing this year. The answer that we are going to the L.T.I. is greeted with this comment. What are you doing there? I thought you graduated from Grade XIII last year. Thus, it is plain that the local populace must be informed, not of what we shall have in twenty years, but of what we have now. Without support from students, parents, educators and the population in general, the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology will suffer a quick death in spite of the efforts of an enthusiastic i .d- visory Committee and a tireless Principal. President 8

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THE nncipars message To the Graduates: It is a privilege to extend sincere congrat- ulations and every good wish to the gradu- ating class. You are going out into a world which is literally filled with opportunities. Our ever expanding economy demands an unprece- dented number of university graduates and trained technicians. At the same time, due to the low birth rates of the depression, the number of potential graduates is limited. To an older generation that knocked on company doors in search of jobs at subsist- ence wages, today ' s graduate may seem to be a security-seeking, money-minded youngster who is waiting for jobs to drop into his lap. It is indeed gratifying to hear reports to the contrary. The Opinion Research Corpora- tion of Princeton, New Jersey, recently made a survey to find the factors which graduates considered most important in choosing employment. They found that 93 per cent listed chances for advancement as the most important integrant. 83 per cent favoured interesting work. Toward the bot- tom of the list were starting pay (23 per cent) and benefits (17 per cent). The vitalizing expansion which has marked our post-war progress rests largely in our rich endowment of natural resources. Today the development of these resources has become a matter of world wide interest and a magnet to foreign capital. The vast potentials represented by the iron ore depos- its at Labrador and Steep Rock, the oil fields of Alberta, the giant aluminum pro- ject at Kitimat and our vast pulp and paper industry have been heralded throughout the world. But when we speak of opportunity let us not forget the most important factor, one which is not usually considered or given its proper value until it has been lost. I speak of freedom. It is the birthright of every individ- ual who is fortunate enough to live in Can- ada. This is the heritage of our forefathers, jealously guarded and handed down care- fully from generation to generation. Lord Acton said that there is one con- stant in history: the idea of liberty. But this liberty involves far more than the rights of man or the pursuit of happiness. Indeed, said Acton, if happiness is the end of so- ciety, then liberty is superfluous . . . Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. There are many things we ought to do, as Canadians. We have responsibilities that match our opportunities. I have every con fidence that the graduates of 1956 are pre- pared to take full advantage of the opportu- nities and that they will not shy awav from their responsibilities. rail 11 Principal 7

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THE Faculty of l.t. W. S. Armstrong, m.a. H. S. Braun, b.a., principal C. }. Campbell, b.sc.f. Mrs. T. F. Carr, assistant librarian J. H. Charnock, c.a. G. L. Clendenning, b.a. L. Dubinsky, secretary D. M. Fisher, b.a., b.l.s., librarian