Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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 redecoration has been completed in Caldwell Hall. Now guests ore welcomed in an elegant gold Drawing Room and visitors stay in rooms of green and white decor. Physicol improvement plans also saw the Dining Room de-muralled, repainted and draped in a more attractive color scheme. These improvements to the 260 acre campus were the proof-positive that Monticello was meeting a challenge. The result was a new spirit of pride and enthusiasm in the Student Body, the life of the college. The personalities vitalize the physical elements. They are, individually and collectively, the focal points of much of Mon-ticello's new emphasis. Federal government loans have provided $10,000 for new science equipment and audio-aural language facilities, and $2500 to help students finance their education. A new admissions policy stresses the potential ability of prospective students. The college aim is to provide opportunity for that potential to grow and develop. The individual must assume leadership responsibilities and social awareness earlier than in many four year colleges, which add to the total picture of personal self-assurance. In this atmosphere the reserved person suddenly finds others are interested in her as an individual. Cultural doors are opened and surprisingly the jazz-lover begins to enjoy a Sunday St. Louis Symphony program almost as much as a New Orleans combo. More quietly, in the Meditation Room, during the non-sectarian chapel services or while walking past the pond, each girl takes the View Introspective and gradually develops her own basis for living. Toking odvontoge of off-compus culturol resources, Mr. Hillis Arnold and sculpturing closs spend o doy ot the St. Louis Art Museum. Specializing in personal, individual ottcnrion. Cindy Scouler seeks the odvicc of Mr. Lloyd Morgan. Emphasizing learning by doing. The education closs visits Alton area schools ond spends time student-teoching. Page I 1

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It's new, new, new! Studying science equipment purchased through the Government loan is faculty member, Mr. Roy Carter. In the foreign language department the new audio-aural facilities are demonstrated by Dr. Paul Cooke. A V Page 10

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Providing these individuals with the products of the newest trends in education as they move( in classroom scenes is yet another challenge confronting the small private college. This challenge too, Monticello has accepted. With the Inter-Cultural Transfer program, Monticello has joined with other schools throughout the world toward greater international understanding. After her two years at Monticello a girl can now study French in the continental atmosphere of Reid Hall, Paris, liberal arts in the color of old Mexico at Mexico City College, or at the University of Hawaii in the beautiful Manoa Valley. Experimenting with a graduate-type discussion class. President Duncan Wimpress conducts a weekly seminar in his home on General Semantics. The college seniors who take the course on a strictly-for-interest basis find they may well be victims of semantic maladjustment, and remind one another daily of the evils of an allness statement. Pioneering in two-year college trends, Monticello has begun an Honors Study program comparable to those followed in many four-year colleges. Visiting lecturers, hours spent with tutors and in private study, and oral and written examinations not only prepare the student for more advanced educational experience, but present a sense of relevance and vitality to all fields of study. Guiding, directing, understanding the individual as she moves into these new opportunities is Monticello's distinguished faculty. In the spirit of the old, they accomplish the new. Their devotion to an institution they believe in echoes the steadfastness of Theron Baldwin, Philena Fobes, or Harriet Newell Haskell. The history continues as