University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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of our lives. follow soft beauty calling us to come lead me to flowers the land of the peaceful sun. Marc Norman 17

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The sixties began on this campus as a Planning Commisson was determining the strengths, weaknesses, and directing of the University of Southern California. The Commission reaffirmed that the Uni- versity must always be a living and vigorous- ly flourishing entity, endowed with the power of renascence— rather than a static institution, stranded in complacency. Fur- dividuals of outstanding ability would be attracted here to teach, and so that students of great promise would come here to study. Buildings were constructed so that these individuals of outstanding ability would be better able to teach, to study, and to con- duct research. Programs were devised and curricula revised so that individuals might be better topping ther, the Commission called upon the Uni- versity continually to assess itself, continu- ally to exercise its freedom to experiment, continually to develop needed programs and to scrap obsolete ones, and continually to meet its share of the ever-growing re- quirements of a changing community. In sum, the Commission called upon the Uni- versity to pursue, always, excellence in education. That pursuit remains the University ' s objective today. The Planning Commission also determin- ed the means of the pursuit of excellence— the Master Plan— indeed, of the University itself— is directed toward the individual on campus. Guidelines were established so that in- prepared to serve society. Doors were opened so that students, faculty and administration might better talk and learn with one another. The commitment of this University— as it should be of all academe— is to this and future generations. There is much yet to be done to main- tain through time the excellence thus far achieved at the University of Southern Cal- ifornia. The work has begun. It will be carried on by people who care for the past because the past teaches; by people who give energetically of themselves to the pre- sent because the present is opportunity once and for all. The future they compose will be the result of the good work they do hereand now. 19