Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Editor-In-Chief . . . Thomas A. Tully Assistant Editor... Philip F. Peterson Layout Editor... Lee W. Kaiser Literary Editor... T. J. Carew Art Editor... Ronald N. DeMuth Sports Editor... Thomas R. Slaughter

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FOREWORD This year we watched the new Wahlert Memorial Library rise on the site of the old parking lot. Long stretches of good weather allowed the work to progress throughout the winter months. As the building began to take shape, its newness grew less each day, until it became such a part of the campus that it seemed it had always been here. As it neared completion, the thought came to us that this building of the new library in many ways paralleled the life of a man. When a boy is born into the world, he is given some things that require no effort on his part to attain. He is born into his family environment, and given the family name. Here was the new library, just built, but already a part of Loras College with all the traditions of this great institution automatically becoming part of the newest building. It stood as an individual, but still a part of the larger organi- zation. And when the day of its physical completion grew near, it stood tall and straight, but like a boy grown to physical maturity, it still had a long way to go. The interior work remained. The furnishings and materials that would add the final polish had to be added—just as the social graces and general manners of the boy are needed to make the individual acceptable to society. The work remaining was the most important. The old library had been outgrown by the student body and their needs. So it remained to transfer the volumes containing the ac- cumulated knowledge of thousands of years. Much like a young man who has attained his college education, the libary has the knowledge placed there to be used. A library is worthless if the knowledge placed within is not put to good use. The student graduate must also put his knowledge gained in college to good use, or the time, money and effort will have been wasted, There is stil one more thought to be reckoned with. Many of the students leaving college this year wil mark the end of their formal education. This is no time for the graduate to sit back and admire his diploma. The library wil not be allowed to remain Static. Évery year there will be new volumes added. The old ones will be brought up to date. The library will grow іп actual knowledge as well as in intellectual maturity. The graduate of Loras College must continue to do the same. A man must continue to grow intellectually, or he will invariably regress. We cannot remain static. So the 1960 graduate must continue his quest for knowledge and truth, and continue to make use of them. Only in this way can he truly do his duty, “For God and Country.