Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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PRESIDENT JEAN MAYER THE CLASS OF 1978 more than any before or since has been part of years of transition at Tufts. You were the last freshmen to meet Jumbo and the first seniors to participate in the new courses in decision¬ making, international relations, and nutrition, which are the first fruits of our re-thinking of the structure of un¬ dergraduate education. Far from living in the traditional ivory tower these last four years, you faced two disastrous fires in Barnum and Curtis with courage and presence of mind and the resulting inconveniences with equanimity. This year, you welcomed our unexpectedly large freshman class with friendship and accepted the crowding and, for some of you, exile to the Cambridge Common with good humor. You have seen Curtis rebuilt, and the beginnings of the expansion of Barnum. Indeed, before you leave, there will be ample opportunity to break a leg in many spots on our Medford campus. Building will soon begin on our new student housing complex, and on the new Intercultural Center at Fletcher, whose facilities will be used also by the students in Arts and Sciences. You have been with us for the beginning of a period of academic growth which, in the next 3 to 5 years, will assure uniform excellence of curricula in every part of our University and will enable us to reach our full potential as a truly great university. Already in place are our new affiliations with the New England Conservatory, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, our new major in international law and the activities of the Tufts University Nutrition Institute. This next year will, we believe, see affiliations with two marine institu¬ tions, and the phasing in of our biosciences curriculum. Construction will begin on the Nutrition Research Center at our downtown campus and, we trust, on the school of veterinary medicine. A drama facility, the campus center, and an expansion of Cousens are also planned. Your communication of your ideas, your sense of yourselves, and your needs have contributed substantially to the planning of these endeavors. They have been particularly important to the drama facility and campus center. Throughout your four years, under the most difficult circumstances, you have been good students, good athletes, and civilized young men and women, in every way exemplary citizens of the Tufts community. We have no fear in “unleashing” you upon the world. We are proud of you, happy you have been with us, and a bit sad that you are now leaving Tufts. In the years to come, we intend to increase your pride in us, as we know our pride in you will grow.