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.
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All of us—the faculfy and the "older" students alike—
'', glad to - have you here.
Good luck and best wished
—Dr. Eric A. Walker -,
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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
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... 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:
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