Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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17 ACADEMIC

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“Before a society can be considered well-ordered, creative, and consonant with human dignity, it must be based on truth. And so it will be, if each man acknowledges sincerely his own rights and his own duties toward others.” Pacem in Terris At some moment in every college student’s career, he will look up from a textbook or term paper or examination to ask himself, for the first time, “Why am I doing this?” His response to that moment of critical truth will indicate, perhaps more than anything else he might accomplish in college, how ‘free’ liberal education has made him. Like any other freedom, the liberalizing education which Seattle University offers can unfetter the student’s mind only if he assumes the sometimes terrifying responsibilities of losing his chains. What is truth? No one has answered Pilate, but the answer is inconsequential, somehow, compared with the desire to know. No curriculum or faculty can do more than induce in its students that desire, that inquiring curiosity exercised in dialogue, lecture, experiment, and responsible controversy. However veiled and infinitesimal the truth we pursue at S.U., the pursuit is free. Yet part of what is found, in the end, is the duty to bear witness in our own lives and in the world to those personal visions which liberal education can open to us. Once the seed is planted the harvest of knowledge waits upon the fruition of being able to say “I want to know,” and the courage to remember that, because of the responsibility in his right to know, man is not what he knows nor even what he wills, but what he does. 16

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Fall initiates to (tie national Jesuit honoraries, Steve Hay cox, Margaret Oaeges. Jim Boitano and Mary Kimble, share the remaining copy of the reading program's first selection. The major project of Gamma Pi Epsilon, national Jesuit honor society for women, was the co-sponsorship with Alpha Sigma Nu and Silver Scroll of the first annual President’s Scholarship Banquet held during fall quarter. Gamma Pi Epsilon also co-sponsored with Alpha Sigma Nu the Student Voluntary Reading Program. At Homecoming time, a tea was given for alumnae members. The society’s purpose is to honor those women students who have distinguished themselves in scholarship, loyalty, and sendee to their college or university. The eighteen pledges for the 1964-65 school year initiated in January are Kathleen Baginski, Janet Baker, Roberta Barsotti, Catherine Butler, Bernadette Carr. Colleen Corwin. Susan Denman, Kaethe Ellis, Mary Fiorentino, Sheila Fisher, Laurie Hendrick, Alice Helldoerfer, Mary K. Hickey, Anne Kelly, Mary Beth Kuder, Dianne Schellin. Sharon Schulte and Marcia Waldron. The moderator was Dr. Mary B. Turner. Officers were: Mary K. Wood, president; Margaret Roney, vice president; Margaret Daeges, recording secretary; Mary Kimble, corresponding secretary; and Mary Ann Kertes, treasurer. Gamma Pi Epsilon CATHERINE BUTLER KATHLEEN BAGINSKI MARY FIORENTINO SHEILA FISHER ALICE HELLDOERFER UtURIE HEORICK MARY ANNE KERTES 18