Roosevelt University - Vanguard Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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EDWARD J. SPARLING President

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PHILIP LEWIS B.A. A.V.C. EDWARD K. O'BRIEN B.A. BENJAMIN J. OSTRAR B.A. WILLIAM A. OWEN B.S.C. Business Admin. COTTRELL PORTER B.A. Sociology JEAN V. PROSSER B.A. MARVIN REITMAN B.S. JULIAN LEWITSKY B.A. History CLARENCE LIPSCHUTZ B.S. BERTHA J. MALAPANIS B.A. AARON J. METCOFF B.A. SALLY MOTEL B.A. Psychology Psi. Chi.; I.Z.F.A.; Psychol- ogy Club MURIEL Z. NORMAN B.A. ESTELLE D. RHODES B.S. RENEE RODNOR B.A. Spanish Spanish Club; Modern Language Club SHIRLEY ROSEN B.S. Biology Council; I.Z.F.A. HERBERT A. ROSENBAUM B.S.C. MARVIN L. SACHS B.S.C. OSCAR SAVITZSKY B.S. JERRY E. SIRUCEK B.S. Mathematics RICHARD D. SORENSON B.A. MANFRED STEINFELD B.S.C. Council; Commerce Club; A. V.C.; Photography Club ABRAHAM M. UNTERMAN B. S.C. JULIA E. WOOD B.A.

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T JL HE PUBLICATION of the first Roosevelt College annual is a significant event. In it posterity will find the pictures, the names, and the activities of many of the students whose faith—no less than ours—made possible the historic founding of Roosevelt College. I like to think that future student generations will turn to this book with pride and say: “These men and women believed in a principle and made it work.” Our graduates are living proof that the pioneering spirit is not dead in America; they prove that equality of opportunity is still a vital ideal; they proclaim the inalienable human right to achieve according to one’s ability; they are witnesses of the democratic principle that people can bind themselves together by ideas instead of by the interests of social class, creed, or color. To you graduates: Best of luck! Your splendid effort for attainment of these ideals has only begun. That is the meaning of your “commencement.” Chicago and our nation needs your community leadership. World citizenship—though its form is at present over- shadowed by international strife—is not beyond your grasp. To the things you believe in has now been added definite skills and certain intellectual tools. The history of your college—measured in years—is brief, but you are the heirs of a long and noble moral and intellectual tradition. It is the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and many others who have given America an unshakeable belief in man’s ability to do something about the problems of war and his own social environment; it is the tradition of expanding human freedom— everywhere in the world; it is the tradition which calls for enoblement of the status of the individual. Edward J. Sparling