University of Rochester - Interpres Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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IN THE M1DsT of the excitement of Centennial Year celebrations We pause to remember those members of our University community who cannot be with us to watch the unfolding of the second century of the University's development. Lan guage, thou art Zoo narrow and too weak To ease as nowg great sorrow cannot speak. JOHN DONNE I-IELLMUT GEORGE DIRKS IOI-IN HENRY WAGENBLASS IOHN H. WORDEN IAMES GARDNER CLARK FREDERICK GARDNER CLARK 8

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Such a record emphasizes the great loss which the University suffers in losing Alan Valentine as its president, who by his achievements during the past 15 years has made his administration an outstanding era of progress in the University's history. Dr. Valentine has expressed his feeling concerning his years at the University of Rochester thusly: I was a freshman with the Class of 1939 and am a senior with the Class of 1950. During those fifteen years I have learned much, though obviously not enough to secure a diploma. But what I have learned may be less significant than what I have not had to learn. I have not had to learn to face disappointment, to endure unkindness, or to experience disillusion, for I have met none of these in Rochester. Therefore I do not regret a moment of my long course at the University. It has given me, as it will give every Rochester man and woman, more than one can ever repay. My respect for its ideals, my admiration for its great teachers, my affection for its friendliness have mounted with the years. We are proud of our University. It rests with those who remain here, and those yet to come, to make us still more proud of it in future years. That means no compromise with mediocre thought or values, no fear of cheap opinion, no slackness of effort by its supporters, from trustees to freshmen. cc This steadfast determination to accept no standards but the highest, and the genuine human warmth of his feelings toward his University mark Dr. Valentine as a university president whose stature has not often been surpassed in the history of American education. In whatever endeavor the future is to hold for him, Alan Valentine will alvvays deserve the warmest, most sincere admiration and affection of the university to which he has so self-sacrificingly devoted the past 15 yearsf 7

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