University at Buffalo - Buffalonian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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, ff, as f, . ' ,P ri' ff ' '.Av' ' PRESlDENT'S MESSAGE Now, at the close of the l965-66 academic year, is an appropriate time both for looking backward and for looking ahead. For some, this is a time of commencement -the end of formal academic training and the beginning of life in a world even more complex than the multiversity. Looking backward, we are able to see the iso- lated moments of university experience combine to form a meaningful whole. Here, the past has been a period of growth. Each graduating student has shown steady progress in his chosen academic field, progress acknowledged by the confer- ring of degrees. And as each student progressed, the University itself grew, expand- ing opportunities for even greater individual growth. During the past four years, the rate of development of the University has been truly remarkable. This fall, enrollment exceeded 20,000 students for the first time. Both faculty appointments and facilities have been doubled since T960 in order to accom- modate this exploding student population. To a university, growth means more than physical expansion. Today, more stringent entrance requirements are bringing an increasingly higher quality student to the campus. The institution of interdisciplinary studies, new research programs, and serv- ices is making it possible for the University to meet needs which did not exist when the classical curriculum was being formulated. The past is important because it is the prelude to the future--the future of the student and of the University. We hope that your experience here enables each of you to ioin confidently with us in looking ahead and saying: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Clifford C. Furnas 22

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-e sg,-ax SAMUEL B. COULD President, State University of New York I know the I966 BUFFALONIAN is pub- lished primarily for Seniors, after all, it belongs by tradition to this year's grad- uating class. Nevertheless, what I have to say is perhaps of interest to every student who receives the yearbook, which includes all undergraduates, and possibly some graduates as well. Many of you who will leaf through the l'-P66 BUFFALONIAN in remembrance of last year will graduate with more than one issue of this handsome yearbook, and will turn to these in years to come in an at- tempt to recapture your college experi- ence. I certainly cannot predict what the proc- ess of reviewing one to four years in col- lege may reveal to you, but it would be interesting to know what the past years in college have meant to you in retrospect. Shall I have the uneasy feeling that some of you passed through the University without any real understanding of its role or of the way it works? How well have you come to know the University? Have you accumulated only grade points, a degree, and some vocational skills, or have you gained some additional understanding of the learning process? Were you a four- year stranger here, or did you form some lasting friendships? Will the University be unchanged between the dates of your en- trance and your graduation, or did you participate in some way-in concert with other students, faculty, and administration -to increase its excellence and usefulness to society? If your answers to my troublesome ques- tions are in the affirmative, you are in- deed fortunate. Similarly, State University at Buffalo is fortunate in knowing that a good number of its thousands of alumni leave the campus with a truly deep dedi- cation to the encouragement and support of the educational process. I hope we shall hear from you often in the years ahead. Meantime, my best wishes to you in all your future undertak- ings. Sincerely, Samuel B. Gould President