Mills College - Mills Crest Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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ANNA L. BOSE HAWKES DEAN OF STUDENTS Professor of Education deans MARY WOOD BENNETT DEAN OF TIIE FACULTY Professor of Psychology

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presidenfs message The campus assembly hours at which Dr. VVhitc speaks during the year are note- ably 1na.rked for their increased attendance. Indvidual students who have the opportunity of conferring with the President in the course of various activities are both thrilled and grateful for the meaning which his comments give to ordinary duties. The thoughts and words of this man, then, both deserve and receive great respect within the college corninunity - respect for a scholar and for the person- ableness of an individual possessing great faith and high ideals. Beyond the community, Dr. VVhite is famed and respected for his position as an author, historian, and an authority on womeifs education. As students of Mills, we are aware of the stature of this truly great man and of the untiring energy with which he supports the college goals and ideals. Because of this, we are grateful for the challenging ideas that, because of Dr. White, we hold in such close conununion. 6590 V146 Q o '0 2 ' rn Q 4 ui .zs 76, of 'q'D-1851 In the thirteenth century they told a story of a student at the University of Paris who went home to spend a vacation with his family. On the first morning after his arrival under the paternal rooftree there were six eggs for breakfast. Eager to demonstrate to his father Cwho, after all, was footing the billsj what wonderful new things he had been learning, the young man proved by the most irrefragable logic that these were not six eggs but twelve eggs. Whereat his father ate the six which the hens had laid, leaving to the son the six which logic had laid. But this, of course, was seven hundred years ago, and far, far away. I have much confidence that you of the Mills class of 1955 may not only have learned intellectual gamesmanship but may also have learned how to relate your mental processes to the facts as best you can ascertain the facts. This last, of course, is not easy, for logic and language are to some extent self-defeating. A scientist has recently remarked: Without language We could never have become human beings. But with language can We ever know the truth?v This is a paradox which you will live with all your lives. I can only trust that at Mills you may have found both the intellectual vigor and the humility to live with it joyfully. LYNN VVHrrE, fa. President

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'M 1 . : .' ' Emi Lucid' Q. f 7- .. EE ' U D ' -., za .Q 1 Q g ' ,E .. ings ' 1. V half IA ' if I vb' 55353 am was admini tration ROSA BEIIDOW Recorder JOHN GRAYDON BROWN Plant Manager EVELYN DEAN Executive Secretary, Alumnae Association IIELEN DENISE1' Director, I nstit-ution. Admin'istv'at-ion Professor of Home Economics ROBERT F. HITCHCOCK Vice-President and Treasurer HILAIIY STANTON JONES Director of Admissions EVELYN STEEL LITTLE Librarian Professor of Comparative Literature FEED M. LIVINGSTON Comptroller PAUL NA1'ON Vice-Presiclent and Secretary EVELYN R. URIIEIKE, M.D. College Physician PHYLLIS A. XVAIIREN Director of Placement Lecturer, Business Studies MAIIGAIIET WILLIAMS Director of Public Information