Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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and helping us to Left, Kathy Keith gets some good on-the-job experience reading meters for Carolina Power and Light, where she works as a Cooperative Education student. Below, Ann Wilson from Career Planning and Beth Cobb, a member of Concerts and Lectures Committee, talk with Tom Jackson at the reception before his speech on Guerilla Tactics in the Job Market. 14 — OAK LEAVES 1978

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looking towards the future What was Meredith like when you were here? is a ques- tion I am often asked by students and it is not an easy question to answer. While it is simple enough to entertain with a recital of the quaint customs of what is perceived by most of my stu- dents as yesteryear, it is a far more demanding task to talk with clarity about the way we, as a college community, truly were in the 1960 ' s. Usually I beg the real question and choose instead to recount, with a vague sense of self-righteousness to incredulous students, tales of bygone days when things were really tough — when Saturday morning found us in classes; 10 a.m. Monday through Friday in required cha- pel; and everyday, in the skirts we were expected to wear and the classes we were expected to at- tend. One big question most often goes begging again when my classmates ask me their version of the same query: What is Meredith like now ? Virtually always, I am unable to resist the temptation both to scandalize with news of self-limiting hours, unlimited cuts, and cut-offs in the dining hall and to tantalize with accounts of exciting options like Co-ops, special studies, and the London program. When pushed to answer the basic question of what Meredith was and is really like, however, I am confronted with the paradox that while, in the decade and half since I matriculated as a freshman, everything is changed, everything is still very much the same. As the 1970 ' s are freer times than the early 1960 ' s, no doubt because of the campus unrest of the late 1960 ' s, so Meredith today is a freer com- munity than Meredith of my day. In fact, as a college where stu- dents participate fully in the pro- cess of governing their academic and personal lives, Meredith today is very much what we wanted it to be when I was a stu- dent. Therein, perhaps, is the key to Meredith ' s unchanging dimension. As an in- stitution committed to change in response to the times, Meredith has demonstrated not only its own viability and vitality but also that of the educational val- ues expressed in its statement of purposes. Unaltered and unal- terable is the special community that exists when students and teachers come together at any point in time to pursue in an atmosphere of freedom and commitment those ideals. In- formed by its past, celebrating its present, excited about its future, the real Meredith is for me a col- lege everchanging and never- changing. I should be unhappy to think it might ever be other- wise. ' 1, i ' 15 . ' ■i ' ! MISS 1957 iISI

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prepare for our futures On March 28 — 31, 1978 Meredith held a symposium on What Future for My Generation. Here are views of this important event. Left, At the reception in Wainwright, Sam Love and Dean Burris discuss the implications of his speech. Below left. Stemming from a concern about where we as a world are going. Dr. Hazel Henderson spoke on Creating Alternative Futures. Below right. Dr. Gerald Elkin discusses the current world protein shortage, implications for the future, and ways Meredith students might be a part of the solution. M W !■■ E 9LL d s V % H r 1 j ' li H V ■ ■ ' 1 I ii i OAK LEAVES 1978 — 15