University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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(Ba ' aemav January 18, 1960 TO THE ADMINISTRATION, STAFF, FACULTY, AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ?IASSACHUSETTS ; Once again I welcome the opportunity to extend the f reetnngs of the Commonwealth to you all and to acknowledge your various achievements at the University during? the course of the past year. It is noteworthy that you have shared commend- ably, and with devotion, in helping maintain the high standards and enviable reputation of our State University. Your cooperation and loyalty in this respect merits every appreciation. The past year has witnessed a major change in the cliiTiate for public higher education. The people of the Commonwealth have recognized the importance of a first-rate university and I loiow that we are on the way toward achieving that goal. Through your continued dedication and concern our State University always and in every way will continue its fine record of service and accomplishment on behalf of the Commonwealth and its people. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors, jSincerely yours, FURCOLO F i ms 25

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FOSTER FURCOLO Governor, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 24

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FACULTY The Faculty, as the guiding element in our search for knowledge, has made ever-advancing steps in the educational process in conjunction with the physical growth of the University. In the past months we were sorry to see some members of the faculty leave us and eager to welcome the new. Perhaps the controversial issue of faculty salary raises and the enthusiastic part the students and administration played in securing these illustrate our estimation and appreciation of our instructors and professors. In our theme of progress at the University of Massachusetts, we find many of the faculty who are undertaking special projects and research in addition to their teaching duties. The faculty, in the capacity of student advisors, teachers and in their independent endeavors have shown extreme individual and collective ability of which we may well be proud. With the ever-increasing emphasis in our country on the need for better science education in our universities and colleges, the University of Massachu- setts has presented an educational program in this field which is noteworthy. Many graduates of our University have gone on to achieve prominent positions in science and have been recogn ized and honored in Who ' s Who in American Men of Science. We have many noted men of science on the University faculty, such as Dr. Ritchie of the chemistry department, who is doing independent research in the field of high polymer chemistry. Founded as a landgrant college in 1863, for the purpose of education in agriculture, U. Mass. has progressed from this to an institution including many schools and colleges devoted to education in a wide range of fields. With the reahzation of the need for progress in science in the nation and its educational institutions, there has also been a recognition of the need for an emphasis on the aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual aspects of hberal arts ' education. The institu- tions of higher learning in the country have at times been accused of what is popularly termed intellectual apathy. In the face of such challenges to greater intellectual achievement, the colleges and universities have provided increasingly strong programs in liberal arts education in addition to that of science. With the emphasis on the intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of a hberal arts education, the University ' s various schools and colleges have endeav- ored to keep pace with this advancement. One of these that has shown recent progress and development has been the English Department which is now headed by Dr. Vernon Helming, who is acting head during the sabbatical leave of Dr. Maxwell Goldberg. Dr. Goldberg, who has taken a year-long sabbatical in order to write a book on The Humanities in Action for Prentice-Hall, is but one example of the progress in individual pursuit which our English Department has made. Well-known in literary circles, as well as in the University and Amherst worlds, is Dr. Frank Prentice Rand, the author of Amherst: A Village Landmark. He has also accomplished further achievement in poetry and art. The University may be proud to have in its midst the recent addition of Associate Professor Joseph Langland, who came to us from the University of Wyoming. As a representative modem poet, Professor Langland has made a 26