Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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The focode of the Sponish Center at Mexico City College feotures a colorful stone mural depicting the conquest of Mexico. Pogc 13 Honors Course participants are Miss Betsy Berry, Miss Isobel Phisterer, Judy Frederick, Mr. John Mocdonald, and Koy Crowthor. Below left, students in Mexico watch a demonstration of bullfighting techniques by a young torero. Below right, the famous pyramids of Son Juon Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, ore a favorite haunt for historicol-minded students. Weekend mountain climbing trips, pictured to the right, arc o fovorite diversion of students in Poris.

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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

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Gate and up the steps of the Benjamin Godfrey Memorial Chapel. The Board of Trustees, representatives invited from over 200 educational institutions and associations, and the Monticello faculty donned full academic regalia for the first formal inaugural in the school's history. It was an event which evaluated the past, ackowledged the present, and made no little plans for the future. This is Monticello today — it was once Godfrey's Folly but characteristic stick-to-it-iveness built the women's college on a prairie frontier that today continues to progress with the times. This is the newness of Monticello's approach to the education of an Individual . . . founded upon tradition . . . fused with freshness .... today's Fulbright teacher. Foreign Service officer, or nationally recognized sculptor devote their time to educating young women. In recognition of this service, new plans have been initiated for arranging leoves for further study, increasing salaries, and increasing benefits. The culmination of these efforts is visible in the complete picture of academic leadership at Monticello — a picture now 125 years old. Commemorating this century and a quarter of leadership in education was the March 18 Inauguration of Monticello's ninth president. Dr. Gordon Duncan Wimpress, Jr. Color, pomp and circumstance, characterized the academic procession as it moved down the brick walk through Haskell Memorial From Left: Moin spcokcrs Dr. Henry Chounccy, president of the Educotionol Testing Service; Mrs. Spencer T. Olin, chairmon of the Monticello Board of Trustees; Mrs. Millicent McIntosh, president of Barnord College; ond ncwly-inaugu-roted President Duncon Wimpress. The heralds, Lynda Costcol ond Kathleen Bush, ond the choir led the academic procession to the Chopel for the formal inauguration services. Guests and hostess ot the president's too closed the March 19 inaugurol progrom. Poge 14