McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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Hours and quality points measure progress in the intellectual development of students who live in the most highly educated society the world has known. The Registrar ' s office not only keeps a formal record of such progress, but also offers to students the opportunity for systematic planning of future college years and transform the college opportunity into significant personal achieve- ment. It can provide a sound basis for a student ' s life work and for the fulfillment of goals. MRS. VIRGINIA GILLESPIE ■ Registrar The Church affirms that Jesus Christ is Lord. The Religious Life Program of the College, planned by the Religious Life Cam- mission of the Student Congress with the advice and counsel of l the Director of Religious Life, is aimed toward making this af- firmation relevant to a broken world. We are dedicated to an inquiry into the nature of truth— truth, not as factual knowledge, but as the meaning of knowledge. We are interested in truth, ; not as disinterested, objective discovery, but as profound personal] experience. To wed knowledge and vital piety -to take copti the minds of men to the mind of Christ — is our purpose. We are concerned not with acceptance of belief or an interpretation but with a religious encounter. REV. JOHN R. CURTIS, JR. ' Director of Religious Life m IS in ' - . l- Iff ■2 ROBERT PAUL FITCH Head Librarian

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The door of opportunity is opened to young people of tfiis age tlirough higher education. This beginsinpersonalgrowth as one comes into vital contact with the great ideas of mankind. It continues as the college graduate moves into the professional and industrial life of a com- plex society. Opportunities at a lower level may be diminishing but at a higher level they are expanding rapidly. The future of our society requires large num- bers of able youth who are prepared to undertake demanding tasks. DR. WENDELL S. DYSINCER Academic Dean ADMINISTRATION . The value of on education is the sense ' of direction it gives to life. This para- • phrase of Plato may well describe the McKendree College spirit. Classrooms and laboratories offer exposure to new and often great ideas, together with a ; challenge to explore frontiers of under- :| standing. What takes place in the class- ' room, however, is not all there is to an ] educational venture. In a growing and ■ going McKendree a dynamic setting is being created in which interesting and exciting experiences are inherent. New understandings from the classroom put to work in student life activities emerge as new purposes for lif e and a sense of direction are born. DR. W. N. CRANDY Dean of Students

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VERNON SNEAD Business Manager GEORGE PENCE Director of Admissions lONE PENCE Admissions Counsellor DORIS SNEAD Director of Development