Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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PRE IDENT TINGLESTAD This year's Saga does well in suggesting that we ponder the national recognition which unexpectedly came to us this year. It was the football team that did it. Of course there was competent and experienced coaching, also exceptional native ability in certain players, but there were deeper factors than these: proper recognition of health and strength as God-given qualifications or assets, and loyal teamwork with the Willing submergence of individual ambitions for the benefit of all. These deeper factors are well-known to those who recognize human responsibility to the Lord and the Creator. There also had to be genuine loyalty and allegiance on the part of the larger group or groups which the team represented or came to represent. Finally, the perspective of a well-balanced college education had to be protected from distortion. Immediately after the close of the football season real War came to our nation. It is more than a hope, it is our belief, that the qualities which brought such wide recognition and acclaim may be significantly in evidence as these same young men go forth to give their all in a vastly larger and more serious cause-the preservation of freedom and the Winning of peace. President Tinglestad.

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DEAN PHILIP E. HAUGE i All kinds of changes in higher education have been sug- gested. Today colleges and universities propose stream-lined programs, accelerated programs, War-emergency programs, pre-induction programs and many others. Some colleges and universities are offering four quarters of work during the year, others three semesters per year. Both groups plan their work so that students may complete the regular four-year program in two and one-half or three years. One outstanding American institution has endorsed a program which called for the con- ferring of the B. A. degree at the end of the sophomore year. But why these changes? Theoretically, in order that we may retain those i'freedoms for which our father's fought and in which is found the true essence of democracy. Practically, so that our young people may be better prepared for today's all- out effort and tomorroW's period of reconstruction. It is fitting, therefore, that the Saga honor this year's football team, not because it Won another championship but primarily because it is the embodiment of ideals of manhood that makes victory in the present struggle assured. -Dean Philip E. I-lauge.