Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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EDITED by Harry Dorsey ASSOCIATE EDITORS Martha Adams, Advertising Manager Faith Bockius, Sororities A Joan Cornelius, Classes and Organizations Jack Lawrence, Fraternities Dave Lcdbetter, Sports Tom Mitchell and Merlo Seglie, Calendar Dick Shivers, Faculty I CONTRIBUTING EDITORS G. William Hume 8, Carol Wyman, Administration - Claire Jenks 8. Mary Oliver, Faculty :Sic Organizations - Marilyn Avery 8a Marilyn Peppin, Class of '52 - Robert Hansen, Men 62 Women's Residences - Chuck Stewart, ATO - Jack Lawrence, Phi Gamma Delta - Ron Stout, Kappa Sigma - Dick Shivers 8m Jim Brown, Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Shirley Ruch 8g Pam Lewis, Alpha - Marilyn Moore, Beta - Betty Bailey, Gamma - Carolyn Floyd, Delta - Vivian Dennistoun, Zeta - Beverly Scroggs, Rope - Al Nickols, Weekend Away - Chuck Lind, Dorm Dances - John Fitch, Peer Gynt -I John Utzinger, Ami Daniel Webster - Craig Cunningham, Football - Bob Stiltler, 37 Toss Catback - Robert Hansen, Date Sequence - Bob Jackson, I. V. Track - Don Fulton Golf - Roger Burke, Gymnastics - Bob Stiftler, Basketball - Red Gresham, Basketball Fouls - Jerry McCluskey, Swimming - Ed Harper, Baseball - Mary Oliver, Introduction to Classes ART Ming Cho Lee, Lettering Rosemary Wood, Cover unit Robert Hansen, Pictogram r

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Professor Percy Houston died early in the spring term of this year. Though increasingly oppressed with an advancing paralysis during the last semes- ter, he carried on his academic work cheerfully until a few days before his death. He had served in tl1e English department at Occidental since 1928, nearly a quarter of a century. A graduate of Wil- liams College and of Harvard University, he had taught in California through most of his profes- sional career. Professor Houston typified those men, usually not well known to the public., who have carried the tradition of western civilization to the expanding frontiers and settlements of America through more than three centuries. It has been characteristic of America that the law, churches, hospitals, school systems and colleges followed quickly in the wake of the pioneers. Teachers, doctors, ministers, and lawyers of vision have done much to create civiliza- tion in each new region. Great colleges and uni- versities, like govermnents, do not emerge naturally or inevitably in a new land.. By their nature and their traditions they are the product of dedicated labor and dedicated lives. Occidental, like most colleges on the West Coast, is hardly more than one long generation old. It owes its present intellectual standing to men of this generation who were not only persons of character and devoted teachers, but were also thoroughly educated. Dr. Houston was such a man. He represented that quality of thought and that breadth of perspective which in the last analysis make a liberal arts college some- thing more than a high grade preparatory school, a country club, or a seminary for young people. He kept steadily in view the importance of know- ing the best that has been thought and said in the world. He brought Plato, Homer, Greek drama, Dante, Shakespeare, and other great writers to stu- dents in a new land which, through the efforts of men like himself, now shares with the rest of the western world the traditions of twenty-five centu- ries. He was a humanist in the great tradition of Socrates, Sir Thomas More, Jefferson, Matthew Arnold, and Emerson. Believing in the importance and dignity of man, he stressed the ideal of reason- able conduct, and the need for keeping a sense of proportion in all things through a widely inclusive perspective on human existence. For him the mas- ter works of literature which he taught were a source of wisdom and of character building, through which modern man might rise to the high- est degree of consciousness as a human being and discover an equable and just way of life, and he was always excited when a student began to get real contact with some of the great writers of the ages. Like Socrates in his last days, Dr. Houston remained eagerly interested in the development and intellectual welfare of his students, even as death crept upon him. As generations of teachers and students pass, it is necessary that there be at least some who, without being merely antiquarians or dull conservators of the past, keep a clear relation between present life and the significant things in the recorded expe- riences of man which form the real link between generations and which represent the evolution of civilization. Dr. Houston was one of those persons at Occidental College. KlCNNPl'l'H KIJRTZ

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