Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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WESLEYAN 70 Your Wesleyan Class of 1970 is part of a generation which had tried to tell offa whole nation. In that act, some of you have been presumptuous. But you have also been mostly honest-telling it as you see it. . . as you think it ought to be. And in that honest if strident effort, your generation has been a catalyst of needed change. We have seen change in your time at Wesleyan. Co-educotion. University reoch-out to its community. More flexible curriculum. More honest and open relationships between the sexes-between the rocekbetween the gen- erotions-omd among the constituences of a campus community. 25

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EDWIN D ETHERINGTON PRESIDENT, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 1967 I971

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E D U C A T I O N UNIVERSITIES From Amex to Academe Businessmen today readily recognize that a good university executive may have the makings of a topliight cor- poration omcer-and universities like- wise know that a learned business leader may be just the man to head up a col- ETHERINGTON Turn about is fair play. 26 In time you will believe, if you do not now, That reason has on important place in the change process. But in your time you have reminded us that feeling isofor young people in every generationofhe principal criterion for deciding what is right and what is not. But I ask this of you: Do not let dreams and slogans become substituies for reality and thought. HYou gotta have a dream . . . But you also have to make the dream come true.