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

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LIBRARY FALL SPRING SECTION HOURS 1.1 101TWF1:00 Intro to Library 2.1 201 MWTh 2:00 Intro to Dewey 202 Th 1 : 00 Decimal 3.1 Intro to Research 301 WF 9:00 0.1 101 Th 1:00 Basic Bibliographic Methods RESIDENT ASSISTANT 0.1 101 MTWThF 9:00 Communal Life MRS. LUBETSKI MRS. GIGES

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SPANISH FALL SPRING SECTION HOURS 101 1:00 Intermediate Spanish — 3 SPEECH MRS. NANCY KNOPKA 1 101 T 2:00-3:40 Speech Funda- 103 T Th 12:00 mentals -1 107 T Th 11:00 22 101 W 2:00-3:40 Intro to Theater Arts — 2 R 101 Remedial Speech By appointment MRS. PENINA SCHRAM MRS. JUNE GOLDEN . JLsP 28 MRS. EDITH WOOLFSON

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MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATING CLASS B DEAN DAVID MIRSK To state that higher education in the United States is passing through a period of great trial and stress, is to state the obvious, but I believe that in a very real sense this period is a period of testing for all institutions of higher education. The process may be more painful for private colleges and universities, but all institutions of higher learning, public as well as private, are being put to the same test. I would like to touch upon two complimentary and very significant fac- tors which contribute to this complex development: First, our society is beginning to reexamine its understanding of the function of higher education, and second, younger people are beginning to reexamine their function within, and their relationship to society. Concepts which have governed the development of higher education philosophically and curricularly are being chal- lenged. The utilitarian approach — even if such is not its necessary programmatic evolvement — has resulted in the view that one of the chief functions of higher education is to prepare the individual to find a career and become a suc- cessful wage earner. Implicitly if not explicitly it has espoused a materialistic function for education, a response to economic needs of students and industrial demands of society. The disaffection of most younger people with higher education is the result of the rejection by them of this educational posture. The second factor is in essence the other side of the same coin. Students are left unfulfilled when they see themselves moving into a society which declares its commitment to the eradication of pain and suffering, want and disadvantage, but permits the erosion of moral and ethical principles. While there may be differences of opinion as to what moral and ethical systems are most acceptable, young people today seem to be almost unaminously committed to the position that declarations of acceptance of a sys- tem of ethcis do not excuse failure to live up to the principles of the system. What makes the education which Stern College gives its students unique is that over the years it has resisted the pressure to move in the direction taken by higher education in general and has remained unflaggingly true to the phi- losophy which animated the founders of Yeshiva University. It has built its curriculum on the belief that education must spring out of an unwaivering commitment to the highest moral and ethical principles summed up in the Jewish tradition. We may have succeeded less in some areas of our program than in others, and may have done more for some students than for others, but our commitment to the principles of the Jewish tradition has remained and will continue to remain steadfast. You are leaving Stern College to enter new activities, whether in graduate school or in the com- munity at large. We hope that the knowledge, and more important, the moral and spiritual perspectives which we have been able to impart to you will prepare you to function as a positive force in the community, both Jewish and general. It is our earnest wish that you will find fulfillment in your own lives, and enlighten the lives of all those whom you will encounter in the years ahead, by putting into practice that philosophy by which we have attempted to educate you: that all human activity, if it is to be effective and good, must be inspirited by the principles of Torah. Our best wishes go with you, as does our hope that you will remain loyal to our College and what it represents.