Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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DR. CLYDE A. LYNCH

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President ' s Message to the Quittapahilla THE totalitarian state regiments not only the economic activities of its citizens but completely subordinates the school and the church to the will of the government. Russia, Germany, and Italy are modern examples of the loss of personal, intellectual, and religious freedom. What a price the individual must pay for supposed political and economic security! One may be inclined to protest the idea that the supreme domina- tion of the government over the total life of the citizens of this republic can happen here; but present-day trends in American education lead discriminating observers to predict that the battle for intellectual and religious liberty may have to be fought all over again, even on our own soil. This issue should not be confused by partisan shibboleths and sibboleths; in fact it would be difficult, historically, to identify the cause of freedom with any specific form of government. Surely communistic Russia and socialistic Germany cannot boast of an excess of opportunities for self-realization and self-expression. So often, fol- lowing the will-o ' -the-wisp of a spurious liberty, men have but exchanged one intoler- able taskmaster for another. Has not history taught us that a liberal education and an adequately-motivated social service alone can serve the fundamental interests of democracy. ' The rule of the majority is successful only when the majority are in- telligent and good. The Liberal Arts College is the true and indispensable serv.int of society. The principles on which it is founded are essential to the preservation and progress of American democrac) ' . Its offerings conduce to the general culture and social-minded- ness of its students; and, while freeing them from the fear of the bread line, their preparation enables them to give to the masses more than bread. Such an education will permit its possessors to offer the people those imperishable goods of the spirit with- out which man cannot truly live. Their training has involved their characters quite as much as their intellects. Receiving their education in an institution that is not subsidized by the state, and therefore free to criticize the structure and functions of the government, and of society generally, the living-products of the Liberal Arts College go out into the stream of social life with nothing human foreign to them. Possessing an adequate philosophy of life, the Christian motive of service, a cosmopolitan point of view, and an appreciation of the true, the good, and the beautiful, such students are permitted to employ their intellectual equipment not merely for gainful employment but for those psychic and spiritual rewards that come to those who do the world ' s work under the spell of the magnificent obsession. A certain type of mechanized and state-controlled education produces stenciled personalities and monotonous uniformity; but the Liberal Arts College will continue to encourage indivi ' dual freedom ot thought and action within the encompassing circle of social responsibility, believing that democracy is being served not by cutting off the heads of the leaders that rise above contemporary achievement le els, but by inspiring those leaders to dedicate their God-given talents to lift the masses to higher levels of efficiency and happiness in the production and consumption of material goods and in the creation and enjoyment of those spiritual values that lift man from his animality and make him truly human. Then, and then alone, will the collective life of man approximate the pattern of the Kingdom of God. Cl de a. Lynch, President.

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Dr. H. H. Shenk S. O. Grimm Dr. p. S. Wagner Dr. G. G. Strlible Dr. a. H. M. Stonecipher Dr. G. a. Richie Mrs. Mary C. Green Dr. O. E. Reynolds Dr. E. H. Stevenson Dr. p. a. V. NX ' allace Dr. L. L. Lietzau Dr. S. H. Derickson Dr. L. G. Bailey Milton L. Stokes Dr. R. R. Butterwtck C. R. Gingrich Dr. V. Earl Light Dr. Andrew Bender