Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Seeking his identity and his place in the cosmos, man is like a child cautiously and eagerly opening a bud to preview the color and to satisfy his innate curiosity, his desire for newness. What are tomorrows made of? Tomorrows are yesterdays rising, rose-borne and refreshed, across the ocean— the threads of today and yesterday woven into lifetimes spanning the circle from an eternal idea to an unending beginning. Our theme for the Aegis of I960 is the past, and the tomorrow, and the heritage of curiosity which is as fuel for our journey to the unbegun, unending newness of the infinite, for our theme treats of the education of an unchanging nature in a changing age. The activities of man traditionally can be exemplified by the Academic, the Spiritual and the Social aspects of his nature. This is unchanging. But in his context man must constantly adapt himself; his education must fit him with principles resiliently universal because reasoned and revealed. This is the education of the whole man, the education which equips him to be in mastery of any situation master of himself. Added to thjaeducation must be a technological excellence with which he creates the new situations, the new dimensions prompted by the age of science. Tn mes on our cover suggest an unchanging nature. The space relationships indicate the changing views, The uncircumscribed aspirations of our age. Together they reflect the academically, spiritually and physically expanding program of Seattle University in the 60’s. M 5

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dedication Education is an expansion program. Education is the most demanding of all expansion programs, for education must equip man for all else. A man’s way of looking at life, of reacting to its exigencies and of fructifying its challenges will be the result of his education. The sacred trust of forming minds and wills belongs to men of vision who are grounded on the bedrock of principle, who can instill a desire for excellence with a realization of what it means to be. ryy , The faculty of Seattle Universi the men of the Society of Jesus by the nature of their profession, and the lay men and women are as an unspoken challenge to develop that firm principle, technical excellence and liberal balance which so characterizes these educators. Seattle University’s development in the first decade of the Space Age will be manifested by the filling out of skeletal structures with brick, steel and glass; but the fundamental application of the expansion, as well as the need for it, must originate with the men and women who are the custodians, the transmitters and the prompters of the heritage of ideas which make up education. To these, the faculty of Seattle University, the I960 Aegis is dedicated.