Quincy University - Gyrfalcon Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Time to Grow Growth, or more appropriately, development of Quincy College en- compasses more than buildings and fund-raising, and many more people than are found in the class- rooms and offices of St. Francis Hall. Development plans this year at Quincy College, included not only blueprints for new buildings, but also plans for curriculum changes, for new faculty members, for strengthening departments — for always striving towards higher aca- demic goals. People working for the future of Q.C., included not only the faculty and staff, but alumni, laymen serving voluntarily on the lay board of trustees, serving with the parents groups and with the president ' s advisory councils. Their aim was to advance the college ' s $5,000,000 Decade of Progress pro- gram, first for a better Q.C., then a bigger one. Chairman of the lay board of trustees of the college this year is Edward C. Kennedy of Chicago, Illinois. Some of the officers of the Quincy College Alumni association whose work this year materially aided the college are, left, Greg Walz, president, and, above, Rollie Thomas, John Wensing and Paul Abele.

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Time to Study As one student said, it seems that everyone from the presi- dential candidates to mother and dad, aunts and uncles and the professors pointed a forefinger at me and said, College is for study, not play. And everytime the Russians grimaced at the west, they repeated their admonition. Whatever the motive or inspiration, there appeared this year what seemed to be a more serious approach to the whole idea of acquiring and using knowledge at Quincy College. There was an undercurrent flowing through even the quietest classrooms and study periods on the campus that cast up a sense of urgency ... for man was reaching, not only the stars, but deep inside himself and backward in time, adding new knowledge almost daily to his store. A student must hurry if he was not to be swept aside onto a barren shore as the current of new knowledge carried him along. On this page and the next two are scenes of Quincy Col- lege students this year, pursuing their studies, and illustrating that at least the big majority seemed to be cooperating with the idea of hard, persistent study: whether on account of the Russians or the collective forefinger pointing at them, is not known. At work in the lan- guage laboratory