Wilson College - Conococheague Yearbook (Chambersburg, PA)

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Head bowed, hands clasped, impishly grinning, the professor responds to his stu- dents. The nature of this response refiects his unorthodox approach, his perceptive analysis, and his unassuming personality. As a teacher he challenges old ideas, in- troducing the spirit of questioning and con- troversy. Always natural and very human, he indicates problems and encourages ex- pression, demanding that students examine and articulate, share ideas, yield to self- commitment. As a scholar he is a generalist; with enthu- siasm, practicality, occasional cynicism, he continues to search for solutions through understanding. Sifting facts, concepts, and theories, he advances with the times. As a man he is an idealist, pensive, full of wonder about human nature. Believing that idealism without action is meaningless, he sees no alternative to involvement, the assumption of responsibility among men and in the state. Association with such a person is a privi- lege; the meaning of such an association is profound. It is with admiration and appre- ciation that the junior class dedicates the 1966 Conococheague to Mr. Calvin H. Blair.

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Introduction The value of four years at Wilson lies in the changes inspired by its difficulty and painfulness; in the fact that these changes are always criticized, always resisted. To resist change is first to recognize its existence and, then, to acknowledge its necessity. Through this process comes progress, intel- lectual and spiritual growth. To Wilson come girls who are young, pro- tected, and often unaware. In their naive confidence they come holding to an ingenu- ous and optimistic image of college. What they encounter, however, is something quite different: a world of drudgery, of increasing pressures, of emotional turmoil with seem- ingly few moments of diversion, relaxation, or pleasure. This world in which the indi- vidual is confronted by heretofore unposed questions and unrealized responses demands that each individual draw more fully from her own talents and abilities, in order to compete within the community. In this competition a two-fold process affects each student. Individual interaction determines the communal personality of which she is a part. Through the agreement, the dissension, and, indeed, the apathy within that personality she finds and defines her interests, her preferences, her purposee herself. The college experience is a growth cycle from unit to unity, from analysis to synthesis, from an old to a new reality. Struggle with change and the adaptation which it demands yields a growing sense of confidence in the authenticity, the world of self.