University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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. ' ' 'Millar 1 .4 ,, The growth of the Detroit skyline, the Rev. Celestin J. Steiner, SJ., knows, is the prime reason that U-D has found expansion necesstzryg the prime reason, too, that it has found expansion possible.

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4 .4 -xslt' In tlze Memorial Building is the Challenge Fund office, where tlze complex communication network begins and ends. The Very Rev. Laurence V. Britt, SJ., president of the University, receives ll Challenge Fund check from Jolzn D. Leary. 16 at 'Cities'plot growth Both the city of Detroit and U-D were built on the concept of free enterprise. The growth of each has been analogous in other respects also. They both began in virtual wilderness. They have both developed industrial and business facilities. This mutual development hints at a meaningful rela- tionship between city and university. According to the Rev. Celestin J. Steiner, S.J., present chancellor and former president, the University from its very begin- ning sought to fulfill the needs of the city. Naturally, the city took advantage of the education offered by U-D. But even so, in the period of the depression and immediately after, the University had to content itself with holding on to what it had, and consolidating these resources. The present development program began when Fr. Steiner arrived in 1949. Between that time and 1960, the following buildings were added to U-D: the Memo- rial Building, Student Union, Reno Hall, Shiple Hall, Briggs Building and the Radio-TV building. So even before the Challenge Fund came into being, the administration was looking ahead. With the in- creasing enrollment, says Fr. Steiner, U-D finally saw a need to expand services to the needs. From this need came the challenge fund, a 525,- 000,000 project, directed by city and university lead- ers, and calling on all who have benefited from U-D to 'Lhelp further improbabilities become plausible realities. First results of the Challenge fund now coming forth are the Dental, Biology and Administration buildings. .i

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Richard P. Dorais times a student for a psychological test, one of many offered to U-D students at the Psychological Center. Frank A. Cairns plans the students' college schedule for the forthcoming semester. Pre-College Counseling is an aid which saves t11e student time and eHort. Joseph A. Berkowski, Director of Admissions, checks stndents' transcripts. On the basis of these transcripts, the student is accepted or turned down. .. ,Jil V i' I How freshme A high school student usually has but a vague idea of what he wants after graduation. The job of telling him he might want at U-D belongs to the Pre-College Counseling Bureau. The bureau, headed by Frank A. Cairns, per- forms this function by correspondence, and by answering the questions of nearly 5,800 visitors per year. But essentially, the task of first-Contact is handled by the four counselors who travel from the bureau's office in the Science Building to high schools in such places as Kentucky and Connecti- cut, answering high school hopes with information, both practical and idealistic. Though the student may not know exactly what he wants, Cairns and associates have a good idea, both of what the student will need, and of what U-D requires. Even if the potential U-D student is interested in engineering or commerce, the liberal arts courses are featured as the core of Jesuit education. And, in most cases, the student will have to present a B average from high school to get this education. So the dual purpose of Pre-College Counseling is to offer the student a chance to judge the