President Ernest H artung TO: Members of the Class of 1967 This yearbook, we hope, will serve as both a symbol and a reminder to all of you that, like yourselves, your University is a living, changing and very dynamic thing. Even as this volume comes off the press fresh with pictures and text covering your final year at the University, it is rapidly becoming outdated by educational, physical, and personnel changes here at the U. of I. The Gem is thus but a record of what the University was at any point in time. Properly considered and interpreted, however, it can also serve as a base for assessing the changes which occur following its publication. In this, it is not unlike you the men and women of the University. As you leave Moscow you bear the distinct stamp of the record of your student days here. But immediately you leave, you assume the status of alumni and you, too, start changing in terms of your relation to the University, as it does in terms of its relation to you. This change is natural and healthy. None of us, and certainly not our University, can live in the past. We must always move to the challenge of the future. In meeting the challenge we can find strength in the past, but not refuge. As you join our alumni, we at the University will look to you for your continuing interest, your help, and in many cases your advice. We may also be in a position to serve you if you will turn to us. Most of all we will need your understanding of our need to change, as we shall understand yours. Our associations during former years, like the Gem, are ties to our mutual past. They can also be our springboard to the future if we will but use them properly. Good luck: ERNEST
President
The new Art and Architecture Building was dedicated November 19, 1966, 11:00 A.M. by President Ernest W. Hartung. The address was given by T . J. Prichard, head of the Department of Art and Architecture. Visting legislators were special guests at the occasion. President Hartung is shown presenting the plaque to T: J. Prichard.
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