Stern College for Women - Kochaviah Yearbook (New York, NY)

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It gives me the greatest pleasure to extend greet- ings to the graduating class at Stern College for Women. The members of the Class of 1970 have had a significant role in the development of Stern College as it went forward in its second decade with gratifying physical expansion and a deepening awareness by students of the importance of excel- lence in education and the eternal values of Judaism for meaningful relevance to the challenges of the modern world. As y ou go forward to take your roles in the home, in further study, in careers, and in the community, may you enjoy personal fulfillment and successful achievement. I am sure that your Alma Mater will have cause to be very proud of you . I congratulate you on reaching this milestone with a worthy record, and extend every good wish for the future. r wr P i ? $W9M f ■-■ v P ' STERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN YESHIV

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With my warmest congratulations to the members of the 1970 graduating class of Stern College for Women, I extend my best wishes for the future. Druing the past four years, which have been a period of unrest and change throughout the world, you have had the unique opportunity to participate in the intellectual quest provided by the arts and sciences and in the spiritual resource of the timeless heritage of Judaism. There will be important challenges for you to meet as you ful- fill your roles as citizens and as women, and I am confident that you will utilize vigor of mind and confidence in eternal values in making your con- tribution to home life, career, and community. May you be granted continued well being and success. Sincerely yours, 4 I w|l» » s. U MaMULl ■¥• Samuel Belkin President

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I am happy to extend my congratulations and best wishes to you as you prepare to leave Stern College to pursue your various ways. Today ' s undergraduates face a difficult, if not distressing, future in a world which seems to grow more uncertain and more threatening from day to day. To the natural condition of man, with its attendant dangers and diffic ulties, modern civilization seems to have added its own brand of frightening possibilities. In all areas, social, political, eco- nomic, and natural, man seems to have loosed forces which he can no longer control and which promise to repay him for their release by turning upon and constricting him. The responses to this dismal prospect are varied. Some respond by falling into apathy, some become fatalistic, and others angered, cry for the destruction of the world which they did not cre- ate but whose burdens they are forced to take up. The time has come, they argue, for casting away traditions, for spurning what was accepted and believed, since every day proclaims that they have failed. If hope is to be found they contend, it is in the new, the untried. One has always, of course, to be prepared to learn to use the new to solve problems, old and new. But at Yeshiva we hold firm to the belief that while we must be ever receptive to the new, we best refashion our world by basing it on those eternal values which permitted the world of our fathers to exist and flourish. In essence, the educational program at Stern College is a declaration of this belief. While it is our hope and desire to train those women who enter our doors to the maximum of our ability, and their potential, and enable them to master new areas of knowledge and to be able to cope with the problems of our contemporary world, we also hope to give them a firm founda- tion in the everlasting values embodied in the Torah which have shaped the best of today ' s civili- zation. It is this conviction that gives Stern College its unique place in the world, and gives the education that it offers its students its special and particular flavor and quality. As you move out into this world, our best wishes go with you. With you, too, go our prayers that you will continue to remain aware and knowledgeable in those eternal values which underlie the Jewish tradition and heritage, and that as you set out to forge a better and safer and saner world, the training that you have received with us will be your guide. May you leave Stern College not to leave, but to come closer to the things for which it stands, and to make us the benefactors of the high ideals and values and the better life to which you are dedicated and for which you are now prepared to work. Go from strength to strength, and find success and fulfillment in the years that lie ahead of you. February 26, 1970 David Mirsky Dean