Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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THEPRESIDE T For the attainment of these objectives, Presi- dent Kretzmann proposed cr seven-point program, consisting of the following points: l. The constant and intelligent interpretation of the mission and message of the University to the Church. 2. The continued building of a faculty of great teachers who will exert a compelling influence on the life and thought of the student body. 3. The develop- ment of the social and spiritual life of the student body by means of a deep respect for the dignity and worth of the individual student. 4. The exten- sion of the work of the university to metropolitan centers. 5. The preparation of plans for a school of higher studies. 6. The periodic release of members cf the faculty from other duties so that they may devote themselves more completely to research. 7. The immediate formulation of permanent and far- reaching plans for increasing the enrollment of the university. Dean Walter G. Friedrich, who had served as acting president for the past year, acted as mas- ter of ceremonies and introduced Dean H. H. Kum- nick, who delivered the invocation: Rev. O. A. Geisemann, who gave the fifteenth anniversary addressy Mr. W. C. Dickmeyer, who made the charqe to the new presidentg Dr. Karl Kretzmann, father of the new president, who offered the in- augural prayerp and Dr. Ludwig Fuerbringer, who pronounced the benediction. rg nevvlm 192 'B await 5 .gJ 'S its 6 49 gs' 1940 Page Twenty-seven

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AUGURATI I N ON THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVER OF T HE NEW lt was late afternoon on Sunday, October sixth. A driving rain outside and the gathering darkness of the evening sup- plied an effective back-drop to President O. P. Kretzmann's inaugural address, in which the new president, extremely young as college presidents go, dedi- cated the university to the future. Behind him sat the men who had, almost all of them, directed the affairs of the university since it came under Lutheran auspices in l925-the members of the board of directors. Grouped about the platform were representatives of other institutions. Near the new president sat two of his predecessors, Doctors Kreinheder and Friedrich. Before him sat the students and guests of the university, all of them wondering how this new president would influence the university. The inaugural address contrasted strangely with the atmosphere in which it was delivered, for its spirit was the spirit of optimism, ln the gloom of that rainy afternoon, President Kretzmann pledged that his administration would seek for the university that greatness which is the greatness of freedom under Godg that it would pursue Truth wherever it might leadg that it would do all in its power to realize the dreams of the men who had believed in a Christian university through the first fifteen years of Lutheran Valpo. Page Twenty-six O N F SA VALPARAISO

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Valparaiso's Homecoming, promoted by our super-chairman, Earl Dawald, was a Tri-Celebration. Aside from being alumni Week-end, these days marked the fifteenth year of Lutheran control of the university, and the inauguration of President O. P. Kretzmann. Classes were dismissed at noon on Friday, and in no time at all the Sloppy foes of Valpo had assembled at the Premier for the annual Hobo Show. That evening the freshmen executed a lively snake-dance around their bonfire. age Twenty-eight