University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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I 1964 Dedication Mr. William D. McIntyre, an outstanding civic leader in the city of Eau Claire, was appointed to the Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Colleges in 1945. At the time of his appointment our college in Eau Claire had an enrollment of 356 students. In the peak years prior to World War II the college enrollment in the system, including the present University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, approximated 6,000 students. It was a propitious lime for the appointment of an outstanding layman whose name was to become identified with the growth and prestige of the institutions of higher learning in Wisconsin. During these past eighteen years, Mr. McIntyre has devoted his entire person to the furtherance and upbuilding of higher education in the colleges and the university. His magnetic personality, his selfless devotion and tireless energy, his knowledge of Wisconsin leaders in both political parties have served to make him effective in communicating the needs of higher education institutions and to get constructive action. He was determined that the colleges should be staffed by competent faculty members who should be properly rewarded for their professional ability. He was convinced that the physical plants should be worthy of institutions of higher learning. He worked ceaselessly to obtain the facilities to bring the colleges to a minimum standard of quality. As this was accomplished he provided leadership for the Board of Regents in preparing for the increased desire for a college education for the marked acceleration in the birth rate. Eleven of his years on the Board of Regents were served as President and several years found Mr. McIntyre as Chairman of the Coordinating Committee for Higher Education. As he left the Board of Regents he observed that the colleges now enroll 22.000 students and have a physical plant valued at nearly 100 millions of dollars. The state college system is nationally recognized and accredited with quality programs in teacher education, liberal arts, professional programs and graduate studies. These achievements have been accomplished with the assistance of his decisive leadership, careful judgment, clear foresight, generous service, and dedication to the needs and aspirations of those many people of Wisconsin who have, and who will benefit from opportunities provided by the State Colleges. Believing the library to l»c the most important building on the campus and the content of the library to be a focal point of study for the student, he and his colleagues were determined that every college should have an excellent library. In keeping with this objective the library at Eau Claire was completed in 1960. Upon the occasion of the announcement of the retirement of Mr. McIntyre, the Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Colleges has named the library at Eau Claire the William D. McIntyre Library'. It is fitting that this building of dignified, yet utilitarian, design should honor that layman who, more than any other, has provided the leadership for higher education in the significant decades following World War II. the man . . . Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire and all of higher education are eternally grateful for this man who put duty above self and who had the unusual ability to foresee the needs and problems of higher education in the decades ahead. PRESIDENT Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire

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The doors are open; the lights invite us. It is for us to decide whether to cross the threshold of this opportunity offered us by the William D. McIntyre Library. Here we find hundreds of students of Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire making daily use of scores of magazines, adequate table space, audiovisual facilities, and most important, thousands of liooks. These provide us with the key to the inner door of real knowledge and charge us with u great responsibility. The cross-table chatterers and the browsing room haunters often find that they have misused the offered key. and the key is portioned out to those who make valid use of the library’s books, who willingly spend time l ecoming acquainted with some of the greatest poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists they will ever know. We can open these liooks in the Blu-gold room, in the dormitories, or even in a crowded hallway and find that we have much to gain. Always, though, the greatest gain is the initiation of an insatiable desire to return to the source from which these l ooks came and choose more and even better ones. Some day we will have to leave this library behind, perhaps never to return, but we will always carry with us the valuable knowledge wc have gained from the liooks within its doors. As we move on to the use of other libraries in many parts of the world, wc will remember the William D. McIntyre Library which opened doors for us.

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