University of Alaska Fairbanks - Denali Yearbook (Fairbanks, AK)

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DR. TERRIS MOORE President PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE The Members of the Class of 1952 graduate in an anniversary year: the thirtieth since the beginning of instruction in 1922. There are other anniversary dates in the University ' s history also: 1915 when Congress made the first Grant of Land and our Cornerstone was laid; 1917 when the Territorial Legislature simultaneously created a corporation, a Board of Trustees, made an appropriation, and incidentally, provided the official date of our seal. The year 1918 when the first building was erected is also an occasion of some interest; and then again in 1935, another important date occurs when the development of research and the prospective offering of advanced degrees called for the recognition of University status. But to students the 1922 date of thirty years ago will always be the important one for this is when the University ' s actual life visibly began. Graduates of the Class of 1952 move out into a rapidly growing Alaska, and the future before them looks bright. In fact, the latest figures reveal that this growth, at seventy per cent for the decade just ended, was the most rapid of any part of the United States. For the long run, Alaska will need to develop new industries, new techniques, and new ideas to take the place of the present heavy military construction effort when it is completed, and no longer the principal support of our economy. The leadership in these developments will come from the new generation, those who are graduating from college now. TERRIS MOORE. eleven

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DR. CHARLES E. BUNNELL President Emeritus DR. BUNNELL ' S MESSAGE The kind of an education I want you to have is a dynamic force calcu- lated to afford you greater happiness, and insure for the public a greater and more useful service. It is not enough to know that certain forces exist or can be produced. The worth of knowing is in doing the thing to be done so that constructive results will be accomplished. You are surrounded with physical forces. They await your command. They are wholly impersonal. It matters not to the keg of powder to what use it is put. It has no mind, and can make no choice. To you is given a gift than which there is none greater. Yours it is to measure forces, and through the power of thought to direct those at your command in fields of action where you engage to make, and do make, the worth while worth most. CHARLES E. BUNNELL This message was good in 1940. It is still good. ten

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BOARD OF REGENTS Dr. C. Earl Albrecht of Juneau, M. J. Walsh of Nome, Elmer Rasmuson of Anchorage, Dr. Terris Moore, Board President Andrew Nerland of Fairbanks, William Stuart of Ketchikan, Mrs. Essie R. Dale of Fairbanks, and Leo Rhode of Anchor- age. (Not pictured is William O ' Neil of Anchorage.) twelve