Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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The ivory tower” idea, that colleges are and want to be private worlds snugly in- sulated from reality, is and ought to be both true and false. College is not a co- coon in which students can spend four years (and faculty members as many as forty) in blessed somnolence, unaware of 'Teal life. It is life and the interaction between the campus and the world around is an essential aspect of it. At the same time the college cannot per- form its essential function without a con- siderable degree of a benign sort of isola- tion. If college people arc incessantly in- volved in a round of overt activity as opposed to the inner activity of the mind, the college cannot be an educational in- stitution. Our society is in desperate need of two sorts of people whom only tine educational institutions can produce. It needs experts of all sorts, shapes, and si es. and it needs an infinite number of liberally-educated, persistently curious, thoughtful and ethically responsible in- dividuals. Somehow, colleges must be a part of the great busy world and yet stand apart from it to understand, evalu- ate and influence it. This is a «difficult dual role to play, but I believe that col- leges such as Mount Holyoke arc carry- ing this dual role with effectiveness and grace. Meri belli E. Cameron College campuses have long been caricatured as re- mote enclaves populated with eccentric, absent-minded professors and irresponsible feather-headed students; a never-never land of impracticably and generalization. It is doubtful this view was ever an accurate one. It certainly is not in 1965! Campuses today arc intri- cately involved in world-wide research and the vast explosion of knowledge; government and foundation grants support widely ranging campus programs of ex- ploration and experimentation; concerns for the plight of one's fellow man elicit unprecedented interest and committment. A college campus is not a world apart. nor can this luxury be permitted those who seek an academic refuge. The complexities of our soci- ety command our attention and insist upon our in- volvement. What better goal for an educational institu- tion than to aid us all in becoming effective, responsi- ble. contributing participants in an exiting century? Rtnh E. Warjel

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One day in the late 1980’s you may sit down and reread this copy of Llamarada with your college-age daughter at your side. By then you will view Mount Hol- yoke with a perspective enriched by the experience of the intervening years. By then. too. you may be able to see your college through your daughter's eyes. No one can predict what you will see. Each member of the Class of 1965 has given to and taken from Mount Holyoke ac- cording to her own talents, desires and values; each will enjoy a different life after graduation. Each who has a daughter will know her to be at once like and unlike her mother. Vet, let me ven- ture a few predictions. You will be reminded of: A beautiful campus where each change of season brought new wonders —the lakes and gardens and trees. Buildings, new and old—the noise and mess of construction, the mellowed age of an ivy-covered architectural atrocity, the isolated nooks you sought for study dates, the noisy gathering places. Other students—friends and acquaint- ances from all over the world, their differences in background, their similari- ties in caring about the world of ideas, their enthusiasms and discontents, their congeniality and kindness, their respon- sibility and integrity. Faculty—occasionally dull, usually competent, always dedicated, sometimes exciting, helping you discover and taking pleasure in seeing you develop new in- sights. Ideas, and the connections among them—the curriculum which started your education a course at a time, and the causes, trivial and important, local and national which enlisted your support. Then should come a realization of the extent to which your Mount Holyoke ex- periences helped shape your life. As for your daughter, how will she react? Who knows? No generation ever fully under- stands another. She will probably think your clothes and your taste in dance mu- sic to be quaint. But if she has become like you she will, I hope, sec that the College is always changing to keep abreast of the times, yet is always trying to preserve its enduring values. And she. too. will treasure the wonderful experi- ence it gave her mother and seek the same for herself. Richard Glenn Gel tell

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HUMANITIES AND LANGUAGES HUMANITIES ART Prof. Dorothy M. Cop well Prof. Marian Hayes Assoc. Prof. Leonard A DcLonga Asst. Prof. Jean C. Harris Visiting Asst. Prof. Ellen P Conant Mr. lames P. Hendricks Miss Sheila J. McNally Miss Susan W. M angam Punngton Lecturer David Talbot-Ricc CLASSICS Assoc. Prof Betty N. Quinn Awl. Prof A Dargan Jones Mi» Jean Pearson INGUSH Prof. Joseph McCi Bottkol Prof. C. Marianne Brock Prof. Alan V. McGee Prof. Sydney K McLean Prof. Ben L. Reid Prof. Nadine Shepardson Prof. Jean Sudrann ASSOC. Prof. Joyce M. Horner .Assoc. Prof. Marjorie R. Kaufman Assoc. Prof. Constance M. Saintongc AM- Prof. Oliver E. Allyn Asst. Prof. Anne T. Dovlc Asst Prof. James D. Ellis Avst. Prof. Virginia R. Ellis Asst Prof Anthony E. Farnham Asst. Prof. Elizabeth A Green Asst. Prof. A. Dargan Jones Asst. Prof. Elsa Ncttels Assl. Prof. Charles H Olmsted Asst. Prof. Adeline P. Potter Asst. Prof. Phyllis P. Smith Mr. Eric W. Kurtz Mrs Marcia V. Reccer Visiting Instructor Mrs. Doris B Kelly FRENCH Prof. Ruth J. Dean Prof. Paul F. Sam tonge Assoc. Prof Edith S Rostas Asst Prof. William S. Bell Asst. Prof. Margaret I Switten Miss Josephe R Castellani Miss Simone Dcitz Miss Anne S. Kimbcll Grad. Asst. Brigitte Coste GERMAN Prof. Edith A. Runge Assoc. Prof. Sidonie L. Cassirer Visiting Asst Prof. Willy Schumann Mrs Eocltraot P Barrett Miss Ingeborg Pillat Mrs. I.isbcth Schafer Asst. Mrs. Minnie I.obl Asst. Mrs. Elsie Sell I.ang. Doris B. M. Gruber Lang. Use Rosenkranz ITAUAN Prof. Valentine Giumatti Visiting Prof. Michele Cantarella Mrs. Iole F. Magri l-ang. M. Gloria Osseila MLSIC Prof. Ruth E. Douglass Prof. David J. Holden Assoc. Prof. Irving R. F.isley Asst. Prof. Ronald Hodges Asst. Prof. Helen Olheim Asst. Prof Myrtle Pegier Mr. Aram Bedrossun Mrs. Carol B. Buckle Mr. Wilfred Burkle Miss Marilyn Crittenson Mr. Lktrello Alexander Mrs Helen B. H.i cn Sirs Carlyle Hodges Mr. John Lyncs Miss Beilina Roulicr Reader Mrs. Charles Smith Mr. Robert L Stalfanson. Conductor of the College Orchestra RUSSIAN Assoc. Prof. Miriam T. Sajkovic Mr David T. Edsall Mrs. Maria K. TatistschefT SPANISH Assoc. Prof. Concha de Albornoz Asst. Prof. Joan E Cinrli Grad. Asst. Maria C. Thomson I-ang. Mabel Lernoud I-ang. Aida L. Mendoza In the humanities—the group of studies, including languages. literature, art. and music—you will find that the emphasis is on learning, on the process itself. This marks, perhaps, the fundamental difference between the approach of the sciences and that of the humanities. A noted—and very wise—art historian. Frwin Panofsky. has described that essential difference of emphasis in this way: In endowing static records with dynamic life, instead of reducing transitory events to static laws, the humanities conflict with, hut compliment the natural sciences. We arc asking you to say good-bye to the certain very pleasant, very comforta- ble. very reassuring methods and “truths. Don't come to us for The Answer. The Answer to it all is precisely what we do not have. We can ask you all sorts of interesting questions that you have never thought of for yourselves, we can provide you with some information you are not aware of. and point out to you further sources of information. Hut say to us True or False. Right or Wrong and you arc apt to be confronted with a qualifying shoulder-shrug and yet another question. The world of humanities can make the possibilities available to you—not by teaching you the answer or deducing and demonstrating incontrovertible laws— but rather by the process of learning by the formulation of questions which endow those sialic records of which Panofsky speaks with a dynamic life. Humanism says Panofsky. is an attitude based on both the insistence on human values and the acceptance of human limitations. Asking questions is. in itself. I suppose a way of life, of doing what William Blake urged every man to do—cleansing the windows of perception—of becoming aware of what it means to be—quite simply—a hu- man being. Jean M. Sudrann