Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The cyclotron Nobel Prize winners Dr. Carl Cori, Dr. Joseph Erlanger, Dr. Gerty Cori, Dr. Arthur H. Compton. Marion C. Bunch Dr. George E. Mylonas

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rl h1s I9 the SlO1X of a ll1'l1XC.ISlly awakened on the move to Gam 1ts PIOIJLI lJOblL1OI'1 1n a commumty that has already been made 'tware of 1ts own tremendous poss1b1l1t1es It 19 the story of a umvexsxty that has always been 1CCOUI'11lLCl as one of the better schools 1n the cou11t1y StI'1Vll10' to fulhll tl1e educat1onal and eultuxal 1equ1ren1ents neeessmy lOl It to take 1tS place amonv the UlllV great 1nst1tut1ons of our soc1ety In sho1t It 15 the story of Washmvton Un1ve1s1ty s Second Century Development Pxoffram NLYCI before 1n the l11sto1y of any counuy l1ave the means of l1lUl'lC1 CCllIC2lIlOI1 been so read1ly ava1lab1e to so manv people, nor CVC1 before has sueh unportance been attached to h1vhe1 educat1on as a means of Oillfllllff a pos1t1on 1n SOC1Cty Yet w1th all th1s the mcreasmff numbe1 of un1v e1s1t1es and colleffes, then evex UIOWIHU' number of students, tl1e1r evpandlnff fac1l1t1es tl1ere 1S a fnowmg tendency to take h1 her edueat1on for ffranted And tl1lS 1S not only on the part of the pubhc, but IH the un1ve1s1t1es themselves It would seen1 that less and less f?IHPl'18.9l9 19 bemg placed on tl1e really IITIIJOIIZLIIY StUd1CS and 1deas, Wltl'lOl.1t wh1eh our soc 1ety as we know 1t today would not LXlSt Only by be1n0f outstandlng can a Llfl1VCI'S1ty t1uly perform 1ts 1n1ss1on to soc1ety that of 1nst1ll1nff ID the 1'1'llllClS of men and women the g1eat 1deas and the coumffe w1th wh1ch to Carly them out, thereby g1v1nU the country the leaclexslnp It must have to survlve How does VVash1nfrton UH1X'LlSIty fit 1nto Il11S scheme? One be ffms to get a PILUIFC of th1s when he looks at a sample of the lonv l1ne of cor1tr1but1ons made by WU to ou1 p1esent day SOCICKY 'lhe School of MCd1C1HL w1tl1 1tS fine faculty and teaehmff and research fac1l1t1es, 1S recoUn17ed as one of the best 1n the coun t1y One of the two Ameneans ever to FCCCIVC tl1e L1StCl Medal, awarded tr1enn1al1y fo1 the worlds most d1st1nUu1shed contr1 but1ons to Slllg'lCZ1l SCILHCC, 19 a member of the faculty of th1s school D1 Ex arts A Gmham Sm Nobel P11185 have been awalded to present O1 one t1me members of the WU faculty a rccoxd exceeded only by Harva1d UIIIVCISILV and the Umvelslty of C3llfOlH1a Foul of these SIX a1e st1ll on the faculty D1 Arthtu H Compton, D oseph EllaI'l0'LI D1 Gezty C011 and D1 Call C011 'Ihe fust usable amount of the new element plutomum from NVl1lCl'l sc1ent1sts xx e1e 'tble to make the necessary computauons lor ClCVl5111ff 1ts manufacture fOl the 3.lOIT11C bomb was P10 duced 1n tl1e WU cyclotron Wfhat 18 called the most 1rnport'1nt axcheolofucal cl1scove1y of 1ts kmcl made on Gneek S011 was unealtheel 1n 1954 by an excas anon CkIJLClIt101'1 led by D1 Geome E Mylonas chanm tn of WU s Att and Archaeology Depaxtment lvltll a btcklov ol SCIXILC s11ch as th1s 1m hat IHOIC IS needed to make VVU a ffreat un1x e1s1ty7' Plus 19 the lJ1Ol3lL111 that fax ed Ethan A H Shepley 'tt the befflnnmg of DIS tenule as WVU ehancello1 The LISYCI Med1l

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To help him find the answer, he initiated a long-range explor- atory study of University goals and objectives and named Blarion C. Bunch, professor of psychology, chairman of an ad- ministration-faculty committee. This study, that was soon to provide the background for a new era at WU, defined the need for a fresh plan after 55 years of growth on the present campus and after many surveys, recommended new buildings and bet- ter use of the existing facilities. The primary concern of the study, initiated in February, 1954, was to improve the quality of the University's offerings to as many students and persons in the community as possible, to use the words of Chancellor Shepley. As a result of the story it was obvious that the University was going to have to embark on a fund raising program of consid- erable proportions to elevate WU to its proper position among the truly outstanding universities of the country. Henry Adams a half century ago wrote, f'The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. According to the Council for Finan- cial Aid to Education, Inc., 'cthis is at least the chief problem today . . . Money raising is no longer one man's burden . . . Neither is it a problem to be solved by a one-shot treatment. It is a permanent problem which can be dealt with only on a continuous basis. Hence a development program is an inevit- able part of the administrative machinery of a college or universityf, i To pursue these goals the University set up the Second Century Development Program. It was announced that the ten-year goal of the plan would be fB50,950,000, and that for the immediate relief of some of the Universityis most pressing needs, a three- year goal of 820,000,000 had been set up. In October, 1954, E. H. Hopkins was named vice-chancellor for University De- velopment, a man highly qualihed to undertake the program. Under the ehancellorship of Arthur Holly Compton he had been doing such work, and was the logical person to direct the development program. A full length color and sound movie about WVU was produced. At the beginning of 1955 came the establishment of the Business and Industrial Liaison Office under I-I. Russell Bintzer, which put the program in high gear. Other members of the development staff are Frederic G. Ket- tlekamp, Marvin G. Osborn, Jr., Mrs. Buel VVhite, Herb Weit- man, Eleanor Bergfeld, Mrs. Henry Andrews, and Dorothy McDermott. Three hundred solicitors, prominent St. Louis business men, form the core of the task forces being enlisted among the Uni- versity's most loyal supporters. These committees devote many hours of their time to see that potential contributors in St. Louis are visited personally, presented with the whole story, and given the opportunity to invest in WU's future. It is the feeling of the University administrators that the Hnal success of the Second Century Development Program hinges upon the 1955-56 phase. Consequently, they are sparing no pains to make sure that every one of the University's constituency clear- ly understands the situation. Alumni participation in the cam- paign both locally and throughout the country was started this spring under the direction of George Meyer. Dr. Mylonas uncovered this vase while on an archaelogical expe- dition in Greece. 11