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

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ADMINISTRATION Most of the oaks originally growing here when the College acquired this campus in 1912 are no longer here because of drought, or moth, or root troubles. But in their places other oaks of increasing maiesty, grandeur, and beauty, in even greater number, have grown to their present maturity. This past year we have reviewed the seventy-five-year history of Occidental. We note those great personalities which in the earlier history of Occidental were the human oaks, deep- rooted, broad of limb, and of good foliage, and who have passed on. Are we developing now other human oaks to take the places of those uprooted by time? Each should re- solve to be like the great oaks of our campus and those great oaks of our history. Our roots are deep in the culture of the Western world from which our civilization has sprung and which gave birth to this college. We can preserve that civilization and that culture and cause the College to have meaning only by never forgetting origins, the processes of growth, the re- quirement of fulfillment. Our conception of education here is broad of limb, and our academic oak trees are possessed of all the variety of foliage that makes up the learning of mankind. l Just as the oak trees of this campus cannot grow and thrive unless possessed of proper soil and water conditions, and good roots, and are able to withstand infection from the fluttering moths, so we cannot grow unless possessed of the right soil in mind and heart, good hard wood in structure, appropriate cultivation, and possessed of some resistance to the infections of the world. Let the winds come, let the rains and the fogs and the frosts come. Occidental expects intel- Iectual excitement, there should be ferment, discovery, dis- content, and great hope for the future. There should also be endeavor, achievement. Let the acorns germinate. Let the trees grow, and let the human oaks produced here be as a shade of a tree in a hot desert, as green in a rocky land, the better to serve mankind. -President Arthur G. Coons

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PRESIDENT ARTHUR G. COONS, PH.D.

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FV' 'Gil : DEAN OF STUDENTS VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND FINANCE JOHN A. BROWN, JR., M.A. IIII QLZi fs In 1. m- - Ugdfi-'L J'-9'-ISQGMQ:-f ' Z A if :Q 1411991 ROBERT S. RYF, PH.D. f.IfI:1:'Iff2 EIEIIIIZIE: Q DEAN OF THE FACULTY VERNON L. BOLLMAN, PH.D