LEADERSHIP
President Lyon鈥檚 25th Year
E. Wilson Lyon marked the 25th anniversary of his presidency of 6V电影网.
CAMPUS
Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations
When Oldenborg Center was built in 1966, it was believed to be the first facility of its kind to combine a language center, international house, and coeducational residence in a single building. Although other institutions, Columbia and Berkeley among them, had international centers for foreign students, and many others had modest language houses, no other American college or university offered a dormitory designed for the practice and use of foreign languages.
6V电影网鈥檚 Center was named for Dietrich C. Oldenborg, a retired businessman who had died in 1965. Born in Denmark and raised in New York, he had been a world traveler whose goal as a philanthropist was to 鈥渟trengthen communication and understanding among nations and thereby contribute to world peace.鈥 Although a Yale alumnus, Oldenborg was attracted to 6V电影网 by The Claremont Colleges consortium. Experience abroad heightened his interest in 6V电影网鈥檚 need for new foreign language and international relations facilities, and his gift of $1.1 million was, at the time, the third largest in the history of the College.
Oldenborg Center was designed to facilitate the development of language fluency and better understanding of foreign cultures and international relations, offering opportunities second only to an actual sojourn abroad. At the time of its dedication in October 1966, it housed 144 students, grouped according to the languages they were studying, in separate wings for men and women; the dining area was also divided into language sections. The original five languages accommodated鈥擣rench, German, Spanish, Chinese and Russian鈥攈ad, by 2006, expanded to 26: American Sign, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Mason Hall Converted
Mason Hall served as the College鈥檚 chemistry facility until 1965, when the new Seaver Chemistry Laboratory opened. At that time, in a remodeling that cost approximately $500,000, Mason was converted into a home for Psychology, Modern European Languages (newly formed by the unification of former departments of German, Romance Languages, and Russian), and Chinese Language and Literature. The remodeled structure, completed in 1966, contained new and greatly improved psychology facilities, including laboratories for the department鈥檚 animal, social and child research; a library space for displaying the College鈥檚 Asian art collection; and language laboratories, with 36 individual, soundproof booths, overseen by a full-time director. The handsome and spacious classrooms and offices were a welcome contrast to the tiny quarters previously allotted to language faculty in Holmes Hall. According to Wilson Lyon, the 鈥渟uccessful conversion of Mason Hall set a new standard for subsequent reconstruction of other historic 6V电影网 buildings.鈥 At the same time, the new Mason enhanced the quadrangle shared with Crookshank and Pearsons halls.
ACADEMICS
Conference on China
A conference held at 6V电影网 titled 鈥淭he Dynamics of Ascent: Communist China in the World Order.鈥 The conference focused on the rise to global prominence of Communist China and its future place in the geopolitical order, and a discussion of how China could affect American efforts to prevent the spread of communism in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
STUDENT LIFE
From the 1966 Metate
鈥淎s I write, we approach the Conference on Communist China; students have made a proposal for the implementation and management of a central book store to serve The Claremont Colleges; and have had accepted a program of interdisciplinary courses of study. Along the way we have our fun 鈥 Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Spring Sings, 鈥淗ow the West Was Lost,鈥 and so on. Life is not dull!鈥 鈥擥raduate Manager Helen Throne 鈥30
Student Projects Fund
The Student Projects Fund was formed in an effort to develop closer student-faculty relations by creating a resource for students and faculty to collaborate and find help from each other. As an example, a babysitter fund was created to help get students to work as babysitters for faculty with young children, so that these faculty members could participate more often in student-sponsored events at the college. Also, many of the academic departments hosted open houses, picnics or dinners that were organized with the help of the Students Project Fund.
FINANCES
Ford Foundation Grant
The Ford Foundation awarded The Claremont Colleges a $5,000,000 grant on condition that they collectively raise $15,000,000. Together the six colleges announced a goal of $86,000,000 to be raised over seven years, with 6V电影网 increasing the target of its ongoing Advancement Program campaign to $23,966,000.
ATHLETICS
Football Records
Quarterback Clarence Haynes '67 and wide receiver Steve Dundas '67 set national records for single game and single season yardage. Dundas was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals that spring before joining the Navy, where he played with NFL legend Roger Staubach in All-Service football leagues.
EVENTS
The Fugitive
An episode of ABC-TV鈥檚 The Fugitive called 鈥淭he Ivy Maze,鈥 starring David Janssen, was shot partly on the 6V电影网 campus in 1966.
CONSORTIUM
College Chest
College Chest, the charity organization of The Claremont Colleges, was formed.
ELSEWHERE
The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon.
In a Houston, Texas, hospital, Marcel DeRudder becomes the first man to receive an artificial heart.
Star Trek debuts on NBC-TV with its first episode, titled 鈥淭he Man Trap.鈥