University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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DEDICATION Dean Doris Nickel, a greatly respected member of the University community, was born in Brazil, Indiana. Shortly after her birth she moved to Terra Haute, Indiana, where she spent her childhood and attended Garfield High School. Dean Nickel did her undergraduate work at Indiana State College and earned her Master’s Degree at Indiana University. She taught commercial subjects in two Indiana high schools before coming to Louisville in January 1947. She taught at the University of Louisville in the Secretarial Science Department until the spring of 1953. At this time she became Assistant to the Dean, Miss Hilda Threkeld. In July 1955, she was appointed Acting Dean of Women. Dean Nickel serves the University in many ways. She is the Faculty Advisor for Panhellenic and Woman’s League; one of the Faculty Advisors for Cwens, Sophomore Woman’s Honorary, and Mortarboard, Senior Woman’s Honorary; Supervisor of the Woman’s Building; and Secretary of the Student Aid Committee. Our Dean Nickel has done much for the University in her many capacities. She is always will- ing to aid the students, giving up most of her personal life to serve the University. To the woman who can always be depended upon for advice, to the woman who is as gracious as she is attractive, and to the woman who has done so much for the sororities and other women’s groups on campus, we, the students of the University of Louisville, dedicate the 1958 Thoroughbred.

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Mary Beverly Wade . . . Editor-in-Chief Martin K. Pedigo ... Business Manager LOUISVILLE 8, KENTUCKY IBELKNAP CAMPUS ! The 1958 Thoroughbred has at last been assembled. In September and October the tables lay bare and only the click of a key in the lock was heard as the photographer went into the darkroom , | and out again. Every now and then there came a rap on the door by a student who realized that the Thoroughbred did come out on time last year and who now wishes to have his. November came and half-way through the month a few editors began lining up their work, checking with the Editor and then promising to return soon to finish their copy. November passed. Suddenly December was here and with it the realization that the deadline date was approach- | ing. Immediately the office became filled with life: editors racing to and fro; copy pages begun, dis- carded, and then taken up again when no other layout seemed practicable; assignments made on é . . . . . 4 picture sizes; a blinking photographer emerging from the darkroom to avow that he has never f seen so much to do. Near the deadline date some editors, having finished, left while the stragglers f worked feverishly on. As the last picture was completed, it was laid on the table and a sigh of re- lief was heard. The final page of copy was finished and all were put in envelopes and placed on the table. One lonely soul entered the room, packaged up the copy and departed with it. | Silence dominated the scene temporarily. | This pattern was repeated three times and by March we were through. We then patiently waited | until May to see the fruits of our labor. | Despite the hectic last minute rushing, we all enjoyed working on the Thoroughbred. We want to thank Foote Davies Publishing Company, especially Mr. Walter C. Dargan, for all the help we have received. Special acknowledgement goes to every member of the staff who has worked long hours to produce the finished product, the one we hope you will enjoy now and in the many years to come, the 1958 Thoroughbred. Rev Wada Editor-in-Chief | 1958 ‘Thoroughbred

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re ee ee ee? OUR PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear Graduates of 1958: The graduating classes of this June will be the first in the Space Era. Our mental frontiers have been extended no less than our physical frontiers, and the times in which you step out into the world are enor- mously challenging and exciting. Let us examine the challenge. We have the most majestic public school system in the world. Our stand- ards of public education are such as no other country has ever attempted, much less ever achieved. Whether the American dream is a nightmare is a question which some people are raising, for at the very moment of our achievement the country was shocked by the tremendous feat of the Russians in the scientific area, and people today are asking with grimness as they never did before: “Is America really accomplishing its purposes, or has it failed to achieve anything but a genial confermity in an amiable vacuity?” One thing that we are all agreed upon is that the people of this country can have any kind of schools they want to achieve any kind of specific purposes that they agree upon because the schools are a complete reflection of the wishes of the community and the long-range desires of the people. If there is a conflict be- tween what is taught in the schools and what is wanted in the community, it is not the schools that will win. In consequence, it is of the greatest importance that you and everyone else in the United States really try to understand the educational system and determine what you think about it. One other thing we are all agreed upon: In the face of the scientific achievements of the day it is in- creasingly important that we preserve a sense of balance. We can develop a guided missile; we can send a rocket to the moon; we can do any of these scientific thing . What we have not learned to do is to live to- gether, and the big problem of our generation is not in the scientific field, but in the far broader realm of human understanding because the world inexorably moves toward unity. When I set out to write this, I did not intend to deal with quite such big problems, but these are the kinds of things you and your children are going to be dealing with, and it is my fond hope that the educa- tion you have received here at the University has prepared you to deal with these problems. If it has, we have been successful in our goals for you. Congratulations on your achievement and best wishes for your future happiness. . Sincerely, igs Qe oh OO oO eee SSS are — - SSE