Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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1 J is something special, a time i A one hundredth birthday is something special, a time for great celebration. It is an opportunity to commemorate past achievements and to affirm future promise. A Centennial should be more than just a party or a gush or self- congratulations. It is a time to look back to the mission of the Founders and ask, Is this what you had in mind? One hundred years ago Rollins College began with a dream. Inspired by Lucy Cross, the Daytono school teacher who wrote that she had a song in my soul for a college in Florida, Rollins was to be a college through and complete. Dr. Edward Payson Hooker, the first President, agreed and insisted that the new college possess ' the very highest standards. As we read today ' s College catalogue and reflect on the teaching and learning at Rollins today, we must ask Lucy Cross and Dr. Hooker, Is this what you had in mind? Fifty years ago, as Rollins celebrated its Semicentennial, the vision of the founders was expanded. Educational leaders from around the country and the world brought greetings and congratulations. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said that a college should help men and women to keep the free and unhampered mind, and to love and follow the beauty of holiness, to think alone as individuals and to dwell together as brothers, for thinking is the business of the individual and togetherness is the business of many. Cordell Hull, the notion ' s Secretary of State, added his view, A College should give the student a considerable increased amount of latitude and lee-way and freedom, while at the same time preserving a due sense of responsibility. This balance of freedom with responsibility . . . results in equipping the student ... to I grapple with practical problems of the future. Today, 50 years after our Semicentennial, we must ask Rabbi Wise and Secretary Hull, Is this what you had in mind? Of course, the paramount figure in the sweep of the College ' s history was Dr. Hamilton Holt. He was the President of Rollins at its 50th anniversary and served the college for nearly a quarter of its history. More than any other individual of influence, Hamilton Holt provided the fulfillment of the Founders ' dream and the essence of the Rollins experience today. Fifth years ago. Dr. Holt summarized his vision for Rollins this way: The wisest way, I believe, is first to provide students with teachers they can respect, admire, love, and therefore emulate, and, second, to help them acquire a philosophy of life or a religion, for upon philosophy and religion depends conduct, and upon conduct depends success in life . . . Our Centennial invites the question to our beloved PreXy Is this what you had in mind? As Rollins celebrates a century of service, our community of learners can answer with confidence, Yes. Despite all the charges of a century, Rollins has been inspired and sustained by the vision of its founding. Our commitment to the liberal arts be speaks our continuing devotion to the thorough and complete education described by Lucy Cross and Edward Hooker: our commitment to democratic community life demonstrates our concern for individual freedom and responsibility,- and the humane and personal quality of life at Rollins derives directly from the leadership and example of Hamilton Holt. Rollins College therefore celebrates its Centennial with pride in its past and with gratitude for the service of generations who have enriched this college with their idealism and with their commitment to the spirit of community. We commit ourselves today to a future worthy of our past, confident thof during our next one hundred years, we wil ' affirm that this IS what our founders had in mind. Approved t y Centennial fyenrs Planning Jfommirree October 10, 1984 1985 BOSS 20

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