Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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J. CONRAD SEEGERS Ph.D., Litt.D., L.L.D., L.H.D. President, Muhlenberg College 6

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„ .. ‘ Dr. Janies E. Swain was born in Rockville, Indiana, and received both his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from the University of Indiana, from which he was graduated with the Class of 1921. He broadened his education with extensive travels and research in Europe and with graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the doctor of philosophy degree in 1926. Dr. Swain has been a member of the Muhlenberg faculty since 1925. He is the author of several books, among them the widely used “History of World Civilization”, used as a text in a number of colleges across the country. Dr. Swain is a leader in Civic affairs in Allen- town. He served for several years as chairman of the Council of Social Agencies, a group that analyzes the needs of the community for welfare and character building agencies and relates them to existing or anticipated organizations. He holds membership in the American Historical Association, the Association of University Professors, the American Museum of Natural History, the Auth- ors Club of London, the American Society of Inter- national Law, and numerous other learned societies. His breadth of vision, his ability to make history live, and his scholarly interpretations of the news of the world against the background of the past have made him a popular and inspirational teacher. To Dr. James E. Swain we dedicate this book, in recognition of his dedication to his chosen pro- fession and to the students of Muhlenberg College. 5

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Our very best wishes attend you, members of the class of ]960, as you leave the College. Your paths will he cpiite different. Some of you will teach, some serve through the healing arts, some will enter the ministry. Many will become lawyers, and many others will go to graduate school. A great many will go into various types of business. I hope some of you will eventually become concerned with and active in some phase of govern- ment, state, local, or national. The variety of activities represented by our alumni, the multiple manner in which they contribute to the life and structure of state and country, of community, of church, is a never ceasing source of both amazement and satisfaction. It justifies the thesis which we at Muhlenberg have consistently held — that a liberal arts education provides the kind of experience which prepares broadly, and which lends itself widely to many purposes. We do not offer a vocational type of training. Rather we seek breadth and try to stimulate intellectual curiosity. This variety notwithstanding, there are certain elements which all of you surely have in common, certain others which we hope you share. All of you have been introduced to the world of hooks and writers. In varying de- grees you have learned that although you have had intimate contact with teachers, many of them truly great teachers, ultimately and primarily what you learn depends upon you, and intelligent, analytical reading is the basis of much of that learning. All of you have learned the value of discussion, and have had experience in hav- ing changed your opinions and your ideas as your contacts became more numerous, more broad. All of you have been challenged as you presented your views and have been ask- ed to present evidence for what you have written or said. All of you have been challenged to make your religion dynamic in your life. All these and more have certainly been in your experience here. We hope you share, in addition, a challenge which will produce that intellectual curiosity which will never let you rest, a spiritual zeal which will ever spur you to better, more useful, more consecrated lives, a social conscience which will literally never permit you to seek to live alone, needless of others and their needs. Finally I hope you share with me an undying affection for and interest in this College which I too — but for a second time — soon will he leaving. President