Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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To a Busy Man Who left a major national position as General Secretary for Higher Education of the United Church of Christ to come West to face the test and task of furthering the growth of a small college. Whose wisdom, ability, and optimistic outlook has been instrumental in establishing a program that has contributed greatly to the academic and physical stature of the College and given impetus to long range planning for continued growth. Who has always been willing to accept, without complaint, the lone- liness of leadership in critical times. Who possesses the fortitude to make difficult decisions at times when they must be made regardless of the effects upon him personally. Who has taken the time to act on behalf of individuals in an unseen and unsung manner — doing such small things as securing an overcoat for a needy student to more complex ones such as personally finding financial assistance from outside resources to enable another to make it through. Little is known of these things. Little will be for they remain a part of the silent service of Christian involvement in which he believes. Whose phenomenal drive and resilient spirit has enabled him to re- turn from the depths of serious illness to again serve with constancy a cause he has long championed — excellence in private church-related higher education. For these attributes and many others, we respectfully dedicate this 1966 Yellowstone to Dr. Philip Monroe Widenhouse, third president of Rocky Mountain College.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Billings, Montana 59102 OFFICE OF THE DEAN May, 1966 MESSAGE TO CLASS OF 1966 Commencement suggests accomplishment, that something undertaken has been brought to a successful conclusion. But it also implies a larger meaning, that there still remains a road ahead, with yet another desti- nation, or, in other terms, that man is uniquely an unfinished creation. To him, it seems, has been given the task of completing himself. The phrase of our late president applies here, as we consider the burden and the glory of man ' s assignment, the freedom, the responsibility, the use of human resources, either to finish himself or to finish himself off. What to do with our possibilities, as a race and as individuals, is the inescapable question written large in human life. A distinguished college president (William De Witt Hyde) once wrote of the unfinished nature of man and concluded with these lines: Since what we choose is what we are, And what we love we yet shall be, The goal may ever shine afar; The will to win it makes us free. May your use of your life ' s possibilities in the years ahead make for freedom and for gladness. The best wishes of your college go with you. Lawrence F. Small

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Faith in an institution enabled him to give up his first love of teaching to shoulder willingly and well difficult administrative tasks and give to many problems , both large and small, his full attention. DR. LAWRENCE F. SMALL Dean of the College Acting President ' 65-66 ' It is the man who believes strongly, who lives by faith as well as by knowledge, who moves the world forward.