Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY • VOLUME 66 JHS .« STUDENT LIVING— page 12 CLASSES— page 232 ' f EPILOGUE— page 3 22 BROOKS STILLWELL. Editor BARBARA BRAZIL, Associate Editor PAUL COBLE. Assistant Editor GLENN FREEDMAN, Assistant Editor DAVID JAMES, Business Manager. Published annually by authority of the Publications Board of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Caro- lina. Printed by Footc and Davies, Division of the McCall Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia. The paradox of higher education, accord- ing to Vice President Gene Lucas, is that it is big business, but it is not a busi- ness. Wake Forest is just beginning to recognize in itself the complexity which Lucas implies is a part of the idea of University. The University has many facets, academic and financial, ethical, philo- sophical and structural, which the stu- dent may never realize exist. It has many faces, but all are directed to the end of total education for its participants. The 1968 Howler is an attempt to weave together the threads of ancient tradition and newly-found spirit which characterize the new University. Be- cause the community is a unified, directed whole, its parts can never be completely separated, and some will think the orga- nization of the book to be too categorized, or erroneously arranged. If this is our fault, the staff must apologize, for our purpose is to illustrate the essential unity of the new Wake Forest. The personality of the University is moving in many new directions. Whether developing a new Art Department or re- vamping an archaic administrative struc- ture, the mood of the University is one of unbridled optimism — a feeling which is generally shared by students, faculty, administrators and alumni alike. But the new spirit is much more com- plex than we have suggested. As the personality of the individual student is different from that of the crowd, the spirit of the student body is not quite the same as that of their elders. But the spirit of the University is a composite of them both, for only when they are joined is the community formed. The Wake Forest of 1968, then, is optimistic, complex and traditional, but it has the flavor of something new. We hope that the Howler adequately reflects its mood. ap — . —•-• : ' :

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THE YEAR The Measured Pace of Experience and Feeling Tomorrow is Wednesday and the day after is Thursday, and then it ' s Friday. — a sad but typical remark. When a whole year goes from day to day, it goes not slowly, but as if it had not quite been. One wonders if a year really is 365 days, or whether it ' s a rounded-off 8 J A months with some breaks in-between called vacations. Maybe a year is another two semester course from syllabus to exam. Or it ' s the first year to leave friends and find out what hours and q.p. ' s mean, and what it ' s like to have classes three days a week with fraternity parties on weekends, and dorm life all the time, and only the bus for a sure ride to town. And amidst all this, the days seem like weeks, and the weeks seem like days, and the month is gone — surely not finally. And so is the year. But it ' s not just a calendar year or a month or a day ticked off in little black numbers by the distorted time of a clock. It is a measured year, though, measured by experience and feeling; and the second hand moves from the 12 to the 12 only as fast as you do. It seems that living it, the time didn ' t go nearly as fast as remembering it, trying to put each part of it back together. It ' s a year too long for some, but never long enough for others. For some people the year is a graph that never gets off the horizontal until it ' s over; for others it ' s a jumble with big highs and lows that were never realized until they were over. . . . But it ' s always that way. This year was full of highs and lows for Wake Forest, and for many students, too. Each person ' s year was different, of course, but we hope these pages cover some of the high points in a way that you remember them. Whatever else may change, however, the seasons are always remembered. Al- though the year may overlap itself, the seasons are always its vague demarcations.