Whittier College - Acropolis Yearbook (Whittier, CA)

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Poets Stepped Out to Honor President PAUL S. SMITH President 12

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I Ni I S T A T I O

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Smith for Forty Years of Faithful Service TESTIMONIAL RECOGNIZES EDUCATOR With his friendly Hi, his willingness that gives selflessly, his support of team, teacher, or student, his loyalty and sincerity through failure or glory, for forty years Dr. Paul S. Smith, President of Whittier College, has cre- ated the living tradition of the American Way on the Whittier College Campus. Coming to Whittier in 1922 as a professor of History, Dr. Smith assumed the role as head of the college in 1951 . Honored this year by friends, alumni, and educators from Southern Cali- fornia at a Testimonial Dinner given in recog- nition of his service to the Poet Campus, Dr. Smith remarked that he was happy now to go off probation and on tenure. Through the years that he has guided the college ' s academic expansion, this educator and ad- ministrator has initiated such functions as the Whittier College in Copenhagen program. Campus expansion has been a primary con- cern of the President and this year he has seen the beginnings of the Bonnie Bell Ward- man Library and the Wardman Memorial Football Field. In his spare time. Dr. Smith has completed a biographical sketch of Richard Nixon to be published in the 60th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Known to the students as Papa Paul, it is to this man of action that the Whittier College Family Spirit owes its perpetuation. Despite his busy sched- ule, the President ' s office door remains open to those students, whether seniors or frosh, who wish to stop by and chat. Dr. Smith states that his educational aim is to continue independent education. One of the best measures of a democratic society is the degree to which it can take care of its needs by voluntary effort. We must never go long with- out choosing the will to give and serve our fellowmen, or we will lose the capacity for voluntary effort on which our way of life rests. Educator, administrator, promoter, and friend, Dr. Paul S. Smith is the guiding light behind the torch of education which burns so brightly on the Whittier Campus. PRESIDENT SMITH enthusiastically applauds ex- ASWC president Richard Nixon as he takes his place behind the rostrum at a convo this spring. NORFLEET CALLICOTT presents President Smith with a key to a 1962 Oldsmobile, a gift from the Alumni Association. 13