Purdue University Calumet - Astron Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Dedication To Charles H. Lawshe, Purdue University’s first Vice Presi- dent for Regional Campus Administration, whose foresight, industry and devotion to the principle of higher education for all the citizens of Indiana has contributed so greatly to the development of the regional campuses in general and the Calumet Campus in particular, this, the first issue of the Astron, is gratefully and respectfully dedicated. Hammond, Indiana May, 1967

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A university is many things. An emerging institution such as Purdue Calumet already is a university in part; but it is also just beginning to take form and substance in part; and it is still just a dream or a vision in part. What it will become ultimately cannot now be known byt its destiny will be influenced, affected and directed by those of us now present. A dedicatory message for a first edition of a university annual is both a challenging and frightening task. Challenging it is because it is the opportunity to make a dedication of facilities, staff and students to the making of the Calumet Campus into a great university. Frightening it is because Some day in the future an archivist will seek out this first edition and will assess what all of us have done and appraise it as a puny dream or as tremendous or even understated reality. This book reflects the life and times of an institution about to grant its first bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Purdue Calumet offers a brief but rich heritage of technical education, community service and dedicated teaching. It is building most excellently in other areas of education that are components of the total university. As a branch of the State’s Land-Grant University, its dedication to community service is increasing as is reflected in operations such as the Urban Development Institute. In its faculty, emphasis on good teaching by highly qualified teachers continues and the numbers will grow t enfold over the years. Finally for a great university there must be students. They will be in growing numbers here. But more important than numbers are students who are scholars seeking more than grades and degrees and who contribute to the building of a great university by their scholarship in the classroom, by their mature support of the many things outside the classroom which go to make a university and eventually as prideful alumni aware of the part they have played in the building. Purdue Calumet is on the road to greatness. Isn’t it wonderful to have a part in the process? Dean Director Purdue University - Calumet Campus