Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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IN MEMO RI AM my seed is sown now, my field is plowed, my flesh is bone now, my back is bowed, so hurry sundown, be on your way, weave me tomorrow out of today. tomorrow ' s breeze now blows clear and loud. i ' m off my knees now, i ' m standing proud. so hurry sundown, be on your way, and hurry me sun up from this beat up sundown day. my sorrow ' s song now just make break through this brave new dawn now, long overdue. so hurry sundown, be on your way, and hurry me a sun up from this beat up sundown day- hurry down sundown, get thee begone, get lost in the sunrise of a new dawn, hurry down sundown, take the old day, wrap it in new dreams, send it my way , . . his life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world,

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Alexander Elias Alexander Elias was born on July 24, 1945, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died on October 19, 1966, from in¬ ternal injuries sustained in a motor scooter accident near his home in Watertown. To attempt to fully expound on the life that Alex lived is, totally, impossible; to merely highlight those twenty-one years, on the other hand, is to leave too much unsaid. What is left now is to attempt to realize our own mortality by trying to understand the life of someone who was very much alive, very close, and very real to many of us. Though ultimately his death cannot really be understood, at least his life can remain a memory alive within us. And if we are to learn from anyone, certainly we can learn from the man that was Alex. Alex graduated Watertown High School in 1963 where he was honored as the outstanding student athlete in football, baseball, and basketball. At Tufts, Alex was a major in political science, intending to study for a law degree, was first baseman on the varsity baseball team, and was house chairman of his fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. In addition to having taught Sunday School, Alex was on his way to becoming a Big Brother to a fatherless youth in the Boston area. His interests were diverse, his personality was dynamic, and his positive effect on people was lasting. Tenderness and strength, pride and humility, joy and sorrow were so delicately blended within Alex that he seemed a product of the best in all of us. The selfless love he wore so casually never faltered. With a glance or a smile, or a wink of his eye, Alex made your world alive, and you felt yourself hugging him with all your might, not caring at all if anyone was watching. How can words now make that feeling real? Phonse — you were a fine son, a close friend, and a very good man. 6

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ADMINISTRATION Dr. Mead addresses the Tufts Class of 1970 at Matriculation Exercises on September 14, 1966. Leonard C. Mead Dr. Leonard C. Mead, appointed last year as the Acting President of the University by the Board of Trustees, is a man of many talents. He has been thrust into the difficult role of running a University without actually having the full authority to do so. His re¬ sponsibilities are as great as any full time President, but he is deprived of some of the accompanying privileges. As Acting President, Dr. Mead is unable to deal with major government and founda¬ tion agencies for the needed funds for University expansion because these organi¬ zations will not consider proposals except from a full time President. In this interim period then, Dr. Mead has taken the task of proposing a Self Study Program to be com¬ pleted in 1968 by Dean Campbell, which hopefully will outline in some detail the role and the goals of the University. Dr. Mead is also engaged in drawing up a list of the needed new facilities and their order of priority. “My goal is to try to line up the priority of present and future needs,” he says. These ‘‘future decisions” will be made this year and next so that the new President, to be chosen by the Board of Trustees this spring, will have a tentative list of goals and will be able to institute major steps to achieve them. Dr. Mead personally feels that what I ' ufts needs most is ‘‘people, not build¬ ings.” By this he indicates that there is a continuing search for new talent both in the faculty and in the student body. The recent trip by the Admissions Office to the West Coast is indicative of the new desire to spread the name of Tufts and to recruit students from all parts of the country. The fact that the percentage of enrollment from the State of Massachusetts has dropped below 50% for the first time is an indication of this new desire. His own wishes for the University are oriented along the lines of increased faculty salaries and financial aid. ‘‘I would like to have ten million dollars for faculty salaries and also enough to allow each student that needed financial aid to have it. I also would like to be able to give each student a single room, if he so wished.” Mead is people- oriented. He says, ‘‘It’s people, both stu¬ dents and faculty, that really make this place go.” Dr. Mead is concerned about the attitude of change prevalent today among the college youth, and says, ‘‘Students today are ac¬ tivists. I think that’s good.” He feels that the facilities of the Lincoln Filene Center, in connection with the work they are doing in Roxbury, provide an excellent opportunity for students to be involved in the real problems of life, to find a way to begin solving some of them. In spite of this new spirit of activism today, Tufts is still a strongly residential college with the attached stigma of condon¬ ing the ‘‘in loco parentis” philosophy toward students. Mead feels that Tufts and espe¬ cially Jackson should remain a strong resi¬ dential community, and says “It is what the parents want.” The subject of off campus