Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TO THE 1957 GRADUATES: WE SHALL NOT SOON FORGET THE CLASS OF I9S7. YOU WERE WITH US AND YOU WENT OUT FROM HERE IN THE GREAT DAYS OF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY REBUILDING. YOURS WAS THE FIRST SENIOR CLASS TO HAVE USE OF NEW CLASSROOM FACILITIES IN CURTIS HALL. YOU SAW THE ACRES WEST OF BROAD STREET GROW GREEN AND VELVET-SMOOTH FOR THE FIRST OF THE PLAYING FIELDS ON THE UNDERGRADUATE CAMPUS. OUR 112.000.000 MEDICAL CENTER WAS DEDICATED IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR. PEABODY HALL, BEAUTIFUL AND MODERN RESIDENCE FOP WOMEN. REPLACED THE ROW HOUSES AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS ON NORRIS STREET. YOUR CLASS HAD A PART IN THIS GROWTH. AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE A CONTINUING SENSE OF PARTNERSHIP IN THE GREATER DEVELOPMENT THAT IS AHEAD. LIKE THE UNIVERSITY. YOU ALSO ARE TURNING A PAGE IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES. YOU ARE OPENING A NEW CHAPTER OF DEVELOPMENT LOOKING TO BROADER HORIZONS AND GREATER USEFULNESS. WE EXPECT TO BE PROUD OF YOU AS WE WANT YOU TO BE PROUD OF US. I HOPE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL LET THE UNIVERSITY HAVE A SHARE OF THEIR INTEREST IN YOUR GROWTH. YOU BELONG TO US. TOO. 15

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president • • • ROBERT LIVINGSTON JOHNSON, A.B., LL.D., L.H.D.

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 Since this is my freshman year at Temple. I suppose I will always feel somewhat more identified with this year’s freshmen class than with any other. But to its seniors I am greatly indebted for the orientation they have given me. beginning at Freshman Camp, and for their cooperation all during the year. If other senior classes measure up to this one. my job at Temple will be pleasant indeed. Many have said to me that I arrived at Temple at a very opportune time. Curtis Hall had just been completed, and Peabody Hall was under construction. It is exciting to find oneself in an institution building a campus for the future. But, I find myself more excited by something else—the role that Temple plays in a large urban community. Too often the ivy-covered buildings on other campuses symbolize a preoccupation with the past. At Temple the problems of the present are at our very doorstep. They are the problems of a dynamic and strong society at a time of great change. Temples resources have been directed to assisting the various agencies of our society in coping with these problems. As an example, we are not trying to build a campus but to redevelop an entire area. A college education must include opportunities for the student to learn to see and to intelligently analyze the unprecedented problems of our rapidly chang ing society. Society will continue to change, perhaps at an ever increasing pace. With this will come new challenges and new problems. I hope that you have been jolted into awareness and stimulated by newly perceived opportunities during your years at Temple. Now you must take unto yourself the responsibility for continuing your education, for over the years you will be facing problems which we do not even 16