New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY UBHVERSVTY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SHENCE UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, NEW YORK 53, N.Y. OFFICE OF THE DEAN To the Class of 1961: Among the l3O classes which have graduated from University College, yours is unique in having seen four different men in the Dean's Office. Since September 1957 you have known as my predecessors Deans Baer and Still and Robinson. Merely reciting these names is one way for me to pay tribute to these friends and colleagues of mine. It is also a way to emphasize how much Change has presided over University College during your years here. You will presently begin to date your remembrance of things past in terms of changes. You'll be speaking of an event which occurred prior to Mr. Price's coming to Student Center, or about the time ground was broken for the Gould Hall of Technology, or in the year that Mr. Ricci was given the Great Teacher's Award, or in the very week that the ducking trough journeyed to the Mall. Changes in environment -- a new teacher on the staff, a new building on the site of an old one, a modification of a curricu- lum or of an athletic schedule, the inauguration of coeducation -- we readily observe and date. The interior, personal changes you have undergone individually in the last four years occur day by day, almost too subtly for notice. Yet they have the greater importance. Conditioned by changes everywhere in your college days, in the college and in yourselves, you now enter the days ahead pre- pared. Remember that amid a changing world, and itself constantly changing, your college yet remains the same -- a stalwart symbol of Verity. Turn back to her often to remind yourself to be flexible when change is demanded, to be steady when steadfastness is the highest virtue. The first Dean who has been able to address a class graduat- ing from University College as Nlads and girls,n I greet you in the good academic phrase, Ave atgue Vale. , .A 1 J. W. Knedler, Jr.