Harpur College 1951 Yearbook (Endicott, NY) - Full Access

GLE N G. BARTLE B.A., M.A., Pb.D. PROVOST OF HARPUR OLLEGE A sn·dent r nnual is alwav a record of the pa t but this one i als~ a foreca t of the future. As a record it will alway serve to bring back fond memories of tudent day . The out tanding character- i tic of chi institution in the five years of it existence has been the warm spirit of fellow hip and good-will with which it has been permeated. Tho c of us who have lived together as tudent , faculty member and admini trative staff do not need thi printed word to tell us of the high morale of thi college. But as time passes and a detail fade from our memory, thi book will have increa ing value a a reminder not only of the event chronicled herein but of other more numerous and more personal epi odes which arc now a part of the background of each of u . The year 19 50 brought about a change of our au pices and an exten ion of our horizons of fundamental significance. In February of that year we were accepted by the Board of Tru tees as one of only two Liberal Arts college in the tate Univer ity of cw York. In eptember we started operation as a part of the State University and received our new name. In October we were dedicated a a new unit of the tate Univer ity by Governor Thoma E. Dewey. It i the lot of very few student in any college to participate in such im– portant educational achievement of their alma mater. Under the au pice of the great tate of ew York we ha,·e some immediate and many long-time advantage , here– tofore denied u by circum tance . Although the cost of operation is incrca ed, the tuition fcc to students i reduced. The faculty-student ratio i dropped, making pos ible even more individual attention and a higher tandard of reaching competence. Additional equipment can be purcha ed and ad– ditional pace acquired. 13 Unfortunately 1950 al o brought the threat of war and the rebuilding of the military organization, with it en e– quent deleterious effect upon college enrollment and upon the con truction of college building . A thi i written it is not possible to predict the date of con truction of the new building which we so eriously need. \V/e take comfort in the certainty that thee building will be built just as oon a plan can be completed and building materials are avail– :~ble. In the meantime we can continue to run an e cellent college in our present temporary building . Under the tate our earlier empha i on Liberal Arts training i renewed and inten ified. Other institutions within the tate University will take care of the vocational empha is; our job i the basic one. A Governor Dewey aid in O : to– ber-"Here is a school of good citizen hip; here i a chool of ideas; here i a chool by which we transmit the great fundamentals by which men have lived and wor hiped and grown free and strong, the truths '' hich have given them the courage to fight and to die for their faith in God and their faith in freedom ... "I dedicate Harpur College, this olemn night, pledged to the truth. I dedicate it pledged to the idea that freedom hall never die on thi earth, pledged to the concept that the dignity of mankind i more important than any other cau e, pledged to faith in the right and in the ure knowledge that faith in the right will alway triumph in the end." Provo t Glenn G. Bartle