Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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DROWN HALL

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PACKER HALL ALUMNI BUILDING

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lekigk ' s J 00-year plan GREAT things have been happening at Le- high University. It is not often that an under- graduate, in the short span of four years, has an opportunity to see a great University grow still greater. We of the Class of 1954 have had an ex- ceptional opportunity to see at work that process which has made private education a bulwark of our American democracy, for it was in our years that the Lehigh Development Program was unfolded. The Class has come to know of Lehigh ' s goals and aspirations as the 100-Year Plan . In actu- ality, the term is a misnomer, for the plan, in its essence, states that Lehigh needs additional en- dowment and certain buildings, and that we want to get them as soon as we possibly can. It is a comforting thing to know that Lehigh ' s course has been planned well into the future and that we are part of a dynamic institution. If the pace that the Class of 1954 has witnessed is maintained, we feel certain that these goals will be reached, and in a relatively short period of time. The Lehigh brand of education has a unique- ness which provides that extra something found in Lehigh men. Perhaps this stems more than anything else from the rare blend of the three colleges which permit an engineer, a business- man, and an arts student to live and work to- gether. We are glad to see that the Lehigh of the future is moving further in the direction of the inter-dependence of the separate colleges. Within this context it appears to us that Lehigh ' s future concerns itself with the problems of attracting the best possible faculty and bringing to the campus the finest possible students. How many of the Class of 1954 actually recog- nized the hand of the Development Program as it touched the campus and added to our lives? Dravo House and the new Taylor gymnasium were its first efforts. The consecration of the new alt,ar in Packer Memorial Church was an important event in our freshman year. The erection of that altar, made possible by the aid of the William P. Starkey family, together with a redecoration of v s.wm f ■ -V L fr 2£S$«i. u s£! ito ' W Not Entirely on Bricks and Mortar