SEPTEMBER •16. 1062 - 1 Prexy's Welcome I should like to welcome each of you to the University ,Park, campus-,of The _Pennsylvania State University. You have perhaps heard-that Penn Stale is a large. hn• personal place. It is large. 'is large enough to provide you : with a competent corps of faculty in almost any discipline \or specialty .you might wisii ) to study. It is large enough to inride you with research facilities. many of them very ex pensive, in most oi• the areas of science and scholarship of intsest to man. It large enough to provide an extra-cur ricular,program of outstanding musicians, actors and. other 'performers second to no other in the country. It is large enough to., provide a sports program that includes chess as a varsity activity. It ,is large enough to be good. , But I think thrill you will find that it is not bnpersonal. Penn State is a residential \ campus. By this I mean that most of the students . who ! attend the University Park. campus live at or within walking distance of University Park. Further. most of the faculty ;live. within the immediate vicinity. We have here, then, ,a community .in which the major occupation _—perhaps the only Occupation—is the search fin truth, the exploration of ideas.; the development of knowledge and in tellectual power. -common abiding interest makes for true fellowship, a fellowship that cannot be duplicated at an insti tution in which the only contact between students and stu dents and between faculty and students is maintained during class hours. But here I must give you a word of warning. Education .i. , is basically a lonely ;affair. It can. be measured not by what ..*:. you are taught, but only by what you learn.'-And - learning is a, Id: i „, , , tough, individual process . Others cannot dO•It for you. nor can '; L . it be made easy. Th i s' faculty, the lab Oratories. the library— V, all these exist;to help you learn, not to teach . you. The value ii you receive from this help depends squarely on you. And I it might add that you will be short-changing yourself if you limit your "work"—your reading. your studies, your discui- , t sioias, - and so forth—to that assigned by your predessors. - Those assignments of minimum requirements. You can get full, value of your Penn State experience only by making the fullest possible use of the facilities and resources made avail- 4 , able to you. . All of us—the faculfy and the "older" students alike— '', glad to - have you here. Good luck and best wished —Dr. Eric A. Walker -, - p . ',-'4Th, , VL?MZ-149 , titfzrttl'PXtltlrj.VPTit9tr , IJI t., a';;;iXaMkl;..ettnrit.latiaw: THE DAILY C Cpnvocation to Keynote Weik President Eric A Walker, will address approximately 4,100 fresh men,transfer students and stu dents who have comet to this cam pus from one of the Common wealth campuses tomorrow morn ing. Walker will speak at the tra ditional President's Convocation , which marks the opening of Orientation Week aeti ities The convocation will be held at 9 a m R "Gatir Halls In„ addition to hearing Walker speak, the new stuOnts on cam pus will be .introduced to the deans of the Univemty's nine col leges, the dean of meli, the dean of women and other University per sonnel. Updergraduate Student Govern me President DeaniWharton will alsoOselcome the ieW students. STUDENTS Witt:: be escorted to the convocation by their Orien tation Week leaders. Walker, who received his doc torate in engineering from Har- OVER 30 YEARS CONTINUOUS SERVICE I=l lEMEM ... to speak tomorrow yard University In 1935. was born in Long Eaton, England, on April 29, 1910. He received his sec ondary education at Wrightsville high school: Be went on to Har vard, receiving a bachelor of sci ence degree in 1932, a master's degree in business administration in 1933 and then his doctorate, WALKER CAME to the Univer sity in 1945 as the head of the Department of Electrical Engi neering and the director of the Ordnance Research Laboratory. He assumed this dual role after having been head of the electrical engineering departments at both Tufts College and the University of Connecticut. In 1951 Walker became dean of the College of Engineering. Early in 1958 he was made a vice presi dent of the university and on Oc• tuber• 1, 1958, he became Presi dent. He succeeded Milton Eis e n hower as President. Walker b member of many professional and educational groups. Ho has received honorary degrees from eight colleges as well as several medals and awards: PAGE, THREE
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