Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Four years ago you came from many different places, families, backgrounds, schools, and you were different one from the other. Is there anything that kept you together these four years, that made you alike, that you shared with one another, and which you will take with you and cherish? It is not for me to tell you the answers hut I can tell you the answers which my colleagues and I would like to hear; 'We have developed,’ I would like to hear you say, ‘a love of learning and an appreciation of knowledge and understanding. We now know that we have to study something before we can take an action or make a decision, and we realize that we are entitled to make our own decision only after we know what it is all about. We have also come to know that principles are abstract, absolute, and unchangeable, but that practical decisions, although they must conform to principles, lack the precision and the validity of principles, mainly because of human nature, such as it is, both in us and in those with whom we are dealing. We have learned to love each other or at least to respect each other, not only emotionally or socially, as we did before, but rationally and humanly. This is why we treasure friendship so highly and want to preserve our friendships throughout life even if we are separated in one way or another. If and when things are difficult and unsatisfactory, we realize that this is caused not only by human failings, on our part and on the part of others, but also because the good tilings and the bad things in life are intricately and naturally connected with each other, in the individual and in society. We should like to think that we have done our best and we are determined to do our best in the future.’ Antony Raubitschek 20

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Gordon Craig The Class of 1979 and I are leaving Stanford together. “Being at Stanford-' is the one thing we all share. You an- graduating, and I am retiring from a real international university. It was not so when I came here in 1953, well before most of you were horn. Stanford was then a good university, but I am one of those privileged to sec it grow into a ({real one. How did that come about? Today when there is widespread indifference towards, suspicion of. and even downright hostility to so many of our vital social and governmental institutions, an answer to that question is important for our own attitudes and conduct as citizens. There are of course many reasons: the dedicated work of staff and faculty, the faith and generosity of benefactors. But above all, I believe, it was our general acceptance of intelligent and visionary leadership, most notably in the person of Chancellor J. E. Wallace Sterling. To echo his familiar words to earlier graduating classes: “Coodbyc and good luck. 19

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Thinking back on student days here, and of the 30 years since, I can pass on these thoughts: You are leaving a world dominated by words and abstractions for one you must experience actually. Don’t hesitate to make the switch. Change that larger world if you wish but only after seeing clearly that each part of it is a part of you. You will become responsible for all the world’s actions! The relationship sounds heavy but you shouldn’t find it so. The eventual payoff will be a feeling of love for the whole thing, and of knowing that you are loved. Robert Compton 21