University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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AAVro A. liAAVN of r ' he thdversy ©f Arizona The University of Arizona extends its congratulations and good wishes to seniors and graduate students who will receive degrees in 1964. May sucess reward your efforts as you pass into the next stage of your educational endeavors and life work. You will find that education is always unfinished business. The increase in information will continue in geometric progression. Knowledge and wisdom do not increase at the same rate and are gained only by earnest and diligent effort. Margaret Mead has expressed this thought dramatically: No one will live all of his life in the world in which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity ... For those who work on the growing edge of science, technology, or the arts, contemporary life changes at even shorter intervals. Often only a few months elapse before something which was previously taken for granted must be unlearned or transformed to fit the new state of knowledge or practice. I am especially fond of a comment by Sir Eric Ashby regarding the problem of change and how man and communities adapt themselves to an environment which is changing with unprecedented speed. He pointed out that Napoleon was unable to cross the Alps any faster than Hannibal, and that Gladstone could not reach any more people with his voice than Demosthenes. The rate of change in the last one hundred years, Ashby emphasizes, is of a different order than that of previous cen- turies. The changes are not merely changes in technology, they are transformation in the environ- ment of man. In contrast to this, man remains very much as he was when history began. He learns no more efficiently than a student of Plato ' s academy learned. He thinks no more deeply than Plato thought. His chromosomes are conservative and resistent to change. He responds to new environments not by innovations in his heredity but by marvelous adaptations of his ancient gene- tic inheritance. We hope that your University of Arizona education will help to enable you to make this adaptation as necessary throughout your lives. Richard A. Harvill 20

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President Harvill takes a moment from his work to chat with a Desert interviewer. Dr. Richard A. Harvill has, for the past thirteen years, been president of the University of Arizona. His presidency was announced on July 1, 1951, after he had served in three different capacities at the University. In 1934 he came to the University as an associate professor of economics. He taught until he became Dean of the Graduate College in the year 1946. The next year he was named Dean of the Liberal Arts College, a position he held until 1951. Dr. Harvill was born in Centerville, Tennessee, and received his education at Mis- sissippi State College, Duke University, Chicago University and Northwestern University. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Executives ' Club, Institute of International Education, and The Council of Presidents of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Uni- versities. Dr. Harvill is also a member of the Board of Regents. This year at the Homecoming game, Dr. Harvill presented the newly designed flag of the University. In a way this flag rep- resented his love and pride for the University. For when he first came here in 1934 he ... knew all of the faculty, and also most of the students, but it was much smaller then. I wish that I could meet more of the students now. President Harvill greets one of the for- eign students that attend the University. 21 From the balcony of the Administration building, President Harvill obtains a view of the campus.