Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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l 1X 'l was-mas .3 1 , .,.-an Deon Eleonor Clilton For those of you who will become Alumnae of Sim- mons College in June, 1962, this MICROCOSM will always hold particular interest. It is intended as a record of one short period of your life in which you had the leisure to read many books, to think, and to grow. It is a mirror as well as a record, and its intent is to help you to review the route along which you have pro- gressed in the brief years of your undergraduate experi- ence. It is hoped that it will bring you pleasure in re- living some of the events that made up that experience. More than that, like the photographic record of our first astronaut's llight through outer space in l962, it may give you clues, ideas, suggestions for your next trip or Horbitf' in planning your progress toward fuller knowledge and wiser understanding. It is almost trite to mention the tremendous advance- ment of modern science and the gap it has created be- tween man's ability to work with matter as compared ll with his lack of knowledge of how to live and work with man himself. Yet, education, currently the most popular word in our language, implies the responsibil- ity of each of us to concentrate on lessening that dis- tance between man as a person and man as a pure sci- entist or researcher. Lessening that gap has been a Sim- mons goal for sixty years. Tangible evidence of prog- ress toward that end is the Beatley Library, new this year. Simmons Alumnae took a great part in making that Library a reality. As you become an Alumna. you will find yourself a member of a group which never ceases in its effort to uphold Simmons standards. Our congratulations and wishes for your success and happi- ness as a member of that group are real and sincere. In the next sixty-year period you will add intelligence, strength, and dignity to life everywhere through your own good living.

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President William E. Pork gg, There is a story told of thc head of an American ed- ucational institution who is so busy with his many ad- ministrative duties that he has time each year to read only one book and that book is always the current year- book of his institution. While it is regrettable that his reading is so limited, I think that if his institution pro- duces as line a yearbook each year as Simmons Col- lege he at least has some interesting and important reading. Certainly MICROCOSM is interesting and import- ant reading. Here in this book we have a record of another year in the history of Simmons College. But MICROCOSM is not simply the summary of an iso- lated year in the life of our College. It is, rather a con- necting link between the past and the future. For ex- ample, l96l-62 will always be remembered as the aca- demic year in which three important new buildings were dedicated: Beatley Library, Lefavour Hall, and Mesick Hall. These buildings have meant much to our College this year and will in the future, but they are .- f Nm' also closely connected with the past. In naming them we honored three former leaders of our College, whose outstanding and devoted service will never be forgot- ten. Thus, in recording the events connected with these exciting additions to our College plant this year, MI- CROCOSM is also reminding us of the past and point- ing to a future made brighter by these developments. The real importance of MICROCOSM, however, lies in the fact that it presents a summary of the college years of the members of the Class of 1962. This book is a tribute to them and their contributions to Simmons as well as a record of their educational achievements. But here again, MICROCOSM is a real link between past and future, reminding us of the past activities of a line class, but pointing to a new group of Alumnae who will add to the strength of Simmons College. This edition of MICROCOSM will not be my only reading this year, but it will certainly give me much pleasure. 1 express my thanks to the editors and all those who made this book possible.

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l Administration ,,,,, ,gy HELEN HEARTZ HERZOG Assistant to the Dean JANE ELLEN CURTIN Director of Admission J. GARTON NEEDHAM Vice-President and Dean of Instruction 'Q VH, L, , .. -5-If-:Q 5- 12 Q