Mills College - Mills Crest Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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DEDICATICDINI Pioneer . . . leader . . . friend. During her years at Mills she has been all these. One ofthe first women to recognize the need for college health care, she has worked unceasingly for the physical welfare of students. She has crystallized the desire of Mills women to be of service in the troubled years of war. From the rich pattern of her own life, she has given to each one of us something of her courage and faith in human destiny. To Dr. Eleanor Bancroft we lovingly dedicate this book.

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l9l2ESlDElXlT'S MESSAGE The Commencement of the Class of 1945 will be celebrated almost in the shadow of the Constitutional Convention of the United Nations, from which, we trust, an effective and enduring parliament of man may emerge. We have no illusions that its success will be immediate or complete: seven decades after the formation of American more perfect union o fearful war was necessary to preserve that unity. It will be astonishing if similar tribulations on a world scale do not lie ahead of us. Whatever may come, Mills College will continue to foster in the minds, hearts, and hands of its students the ideas, attitudes, and skills which eventually will pro- vide the foundation for a stable yet flexible global society. We endeavor to free those who breathe the air of our campus from bondage to economic self-interest, to tribal selfishness, to racial snobbery and to either religious or anti-religious fanaticism. If to the cynic such an ideal seems platitudinous, let him imagine a simi- lar college dedicated to class confiict, chauvinism, racialism and bigotry, and reflect upon the damage it would do. ln the highest sense Mills is a propaganda organiza- tion, and is eager to be iudged by the quality and effectiveness of its propaganda. Let me urge you who are the daughters of Mills to embody in yourselves and to propagate around you the best which you have learned from your alma mater. Lynn White, ir.