Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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In 1939, Dr. Nils Yngve Wessell came to Tufts, and in 1940, the Jumbo Book was dedicated to this man, the youngest Dean of Liberal Arts in Tufts history. Tufts College became Tufts University soon after Dr. Wessell’s selection as its President in 1954 - in this same year the Jumbo was again inscribed in his honor. It is with deep respect and appreciation for his twenty-seven years of spirited service to the Tufts community that we re-dedicate our yearbook to Dr. Wessell. As a mirror of this service and our growth as a university, a major portion of the Tufts University Program has been completed with the erection of the new Michael Chemistry Laboratory, the Lincoln Filene Center, Dana Biology Labora¬ tory, Haskell and Wren Halls, and finally and most appropriately, the Nils Yngve Wessell Library. We, the Class of 1966, feel a special bond with Dr. Wessell as witnesses of the fruition of these plans in our last year of formal asso¬ ciation with this university. In his 1965 Matriculation Address, Dr. Wessell expressed the hope that ”in this university and in American society generally there will develop a sense of community out of which will come a realization to the full of the true dignity of the individual and of the common goals and aspirations of all persons of good will, whether they be eighteen or twenty-two or thirty-five or sixty-four and wheth¬ er they be called students or faculty or administration or the younger generation or the Establishment . . .” Tufts is on the threshold of greatness” - with thanks to Dr. Wessell. 5