Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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Above, J. David Newell, Philosophy I think the principle advantage of Washington College is the fact that you have a really highly qualified and dedi- cated faculty, a faculty that basically wants to get to know the students and interact with them. Its much more en- joyable teaching students nowadays be- cause they have a better sense of what they want to be .... A liberal arts education is excellent preparation for life itself: not this or that walk or that walk of life, or this or that life style, but life in general. The effect is that it tends to broaden ones horizons and gives a kind of cultural depth. It ' s too bad we don ' t have a richer cultural exposure than we might, but 1 think we will. 1 think five years from now this college will have a new face. I think that the academic program is starting to im- prove, and that the quality of the stu- dents that will be here in five years from now will be in general, higher than it is now. President Carter has a sense of where a college like this can fit into the larger context of, let ' s say, Mary- land as well as the country. Below, Tai Sung An, Chairman Political Sci- Above, Philosophy, Peter Tapke, John ence Miller, J. David Newell Robert Anderson. Below Right, Tari Renner, Political Science — Above, Patricia Home, Sociology Left, John Taylor, Political Science 22

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Above, Music, Amzie Parcell, Elizabeth Parcell, Kathleen Mills Below Left, Joachim Scholz, German Below Right, Louis Cadwell, Physics i ■« im ' M Above, Kathleen Mills, Music Liberal arts education provides people with the tools to think critically and to think for themselves, and so of course that means creatively. 1 think that a liberal arts education is essential to the continuing of our civilization and probably to the betterment of our soci- ety. There are a lot of advantages to Washington College .... its one of a kind on the Eastern shore. More and more we are becoming aware of the unique qualities that Washington Col- lege offers in this particular area. It ' s so close to the major metropolitan areas . . . but yet 1 think coming back from these places, I am grateful that this is where 1 live, because 1 think 1 can carry on the kind of activities that 1 carry on. We have the accessability, but we also have the idealic setting. It ' s inspiring to me, to be close to the country .... Students are much more concerned about their moneymaking capacity when they leave school, and to me that is a very hard, cold fact to keep in front of you when you ' re in your college years. I think it should be the most idealistic time of your life. To choose a major according to potential salary I consider tragic. Far Left, John Baxter, Chairman Physics Left, Michael Bailey, Chairman Economics 21

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Far Left, Steven Cades, Sociology Left, David Knowles, Director Food Service Below, Jeff Demoss and Ken Roderick, WCFS Move, Psychology, James Siemen, Micheal Goldstein, George Spilich, John Owen Above, Margaret Horsley, Chairman Soci- ology 23