Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD Robert MacVicar OSU President 1970-1984 18

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SALUTE TO ROBERT MACVICAR On a clean, crisp afternoon in December 1984, Robert MacVicar left the Administration Building on the corner of Jefferson and 14th Street for the last time as Oregon State's university president. With him. Mr. MacVicar took 14 years of sentimental memories and the legacy of being one of the most powerful members of Oregon’s education community. In November of last year, we at the Beaver sent a group of writers and a photographer to record some of MacVicar’s thoughts on his term of office. MacVicar revealed that his most enduring memory will be the students and how they have changed over the years. It will be the students. MacVicar says that he will miss most. He is a firm believer that young minds and young ideas are a very healthy part of any community and are the right ingredients to bring out the best in the older generation. He finds the students now on campus to be friendlier, more ambitious, and of more diverse backgrounds than ever before. Diversity of the student body is an accomplishment that MacVicar is particularly proud of. OSU has grown from a university that once boasted a student from every county in Oregon to one that now boasts of a student from every continent and major country in the world. OSU is now truly an international school. His advice to today's college students is a stop and smell the roses philosophy. “Students today work much harder than my contemporaries and I did in college. MacVicar maintained. “Competition is much more rigorous and students in turn spend many more hours today studying and or working to put themselves through school. My advice is to take it easy on occasion. A quick trip to the mountains or the coast may seem impossible today but. in a few years, will appear to have been so trivial.” Mr. MacVicar plans to do some traveling following his retirement and to get settled in his new home in Corvallis. He will remain active on campus, however, occupying an office in the Nuclear Engineering Building. 17 GAflY ALIEN

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John Byrne OSU President 1985- 19