Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Presidentis Message I hope you members of the class' of 1959 have either strengthened or achieved a few undying convictions and principles during your four years at Muhlenberg, and that your experience at the college has had a share in that. I hope you are convinced that a liberal education is important, im- portant not only to you but to our country and our times. It would be tragic if we would succumb to some of the shrill arguments of a fatuous group who would have us take what they think a superior Russian example and substitute for liberal education spot training which may produce skilled technicians but certainly does not produce free men. I hope that throughout your lives you will do all you can to foster and preserve this concept. I hope you have developed faith in and dedication to the principle of democratic government, and that what you have learned about history and about human institutions will have strengthened and made firm that faith. We falter at times, and we blunder often, but who would want to exchange our land, with its freedoms and its rights for anything else which history portrays? I hope you will have developed a social conscience, recognizing that both individually and as a nation our brothers, concerns are also our con- cerns, and that no person, no nation, can live in a vacuum. I hope you will have, to a high degree, developed intellectual curi- osity and intellectual honesty, that you will have acquired the attitude of suspending judgment until the facts are known, that you will want to hear all sides before you render- judgments or arrive at opinions. And I hope you will continue to want to learn and to find the truth, especially in your Held of specialization. I hope you will leave with a faith made stronger by your years and your knowledge, that you will feel and believe, with a burning conviction, that man needs and should seek the help of God in what he undertakes, and should try to serve God in what he does. I hope that you will be unequivocally honest in word and in deed. We hear a great deal about changing times, of present and impend- ing crises. It strikes me that if we remember that there are at least some absolutes as well as changes we might face those changes more effectively and more calmly. Some of my absolutes I have listed. I hope Muhlenberg has helped you to develop your list, and so will have helped you to achieve the happiness and success all of us wish for you. 4.1 President

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J. CONRAD SEEGERS Ph.D., Litt.D., L.L.D., L.H.D. President, Muhlenberg College f Eighteen I

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1 DR. HENRY M. M. RICHARDS B.A., M.D.A., Ph.D. Dean of Faculty DEANS OF HARRY A. BENFER B.A., M.A. Director of Admissions Director of Men's Dormitory I Twenty 1