Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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X C I For his years of loyal service, we dedicate the 1977 NORTH- ERN to Dr. Samuel L. Meyer. The Editor Dr. and Mfrs. Samuel L. Meyefr' 131'

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OF THE WA Y WE WERE

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Dr. Samuel Lewis Meyer Retires but His Dreams Live On From this day forward, we must dedi- cate ourselves to that margin of ex- cellence which separates education of the highest quality from that which is any- thing else, said Dr. Samuel L. Meyer at his inauguration as the seventh president of Ohio Northern University in October 1965. In the Ohio Northern Lexicon, this statement is probably the most famousg certainly it is the most significant, a dream even more prominent, at least for the speaker, than the dream of a new West Campus. Buildings are only a means to excellence in education, not an end: an essential means no doubt and one that cannot be slighted in any way but a means nonetheless. Dr. Meyer's highest priority and the one that is always at the back of his mind is excellence in education. From the beginning he wanted it evident at Ohio Northern University and he wanted it v 1 7... l'2 f' .1 us f a is faux? a 3 recognized. The national honoraries that established local chapters on the Ohio Northem campus during Dr. Meyer's ten- ure are important to him. They are visible proof of a sometimes elusive ideal: ex- cellence in education. Dr. Meyer knows, as he once said to me, that buildings are easy to see but it is sometimes difficult to see those intangible things that are in- volved in teaching excellence. What has given Dr. Meyer the greatest personal satisfaction is the recognition that other institutions in Ohio and across the country have accorded Ohio Northern as it exists today. To accomplish goals that are called dreams, Dr. Meyer had to possess sources of energy most of us do .. . ff. 4x V! piffaf 4 .,., fyyipfejo If .- x ,j,L':-M , ig Q! W -I -.1 ff i Aluif 2-wil ,F a i ,ggi 'fi-,j I I' , I f fR'F ' s f ff ' .-if N we-, ,.' 0, ,V .- ' f - f r Q ff . lfxy i - O - A' ' . 7'7 ' ,' 599 f ' - '36 ' ,435 -yi? a - X .. lr! i 7 ',1-,V - is X - fe W. aa an 4' f 7 .'. wl-Mfy, ff' ' or 'Q f f l f - I 1 f' .-'N I ' , - X XS? fl ,fly , ,N .Ml M gffy x ' ,sc , Ay . ,Q . s. . Qt . ff,f-vw. Est f f l fy 5' Q fp fy, '- ,af gig 1 ' W! 1 's J' X ,I fi , EQ, 1 , ,ax ifgg qI I I ! f I Lvfff Wa '. . -'Aft vfffff Q 1, fl I , . . , Zf:'.fff ' ,. 1 - xi t ' 44-A I j 11- x 9 lv-fu . X356 , .1 .A : ,I A Ms. , .W-'-A fr .Q . i 1 42.137 f I . r , . . U My. 1, ,fs 1439 0 ff 7 fu, , 4 W 3151. 7, .-A! . ,, , V , X4 ' -' ff 17