12 CHANCELLOR JOHN R. RICHARDS Portland State College, as it completes its first year as a four-year, degree-granting institution stands at the thresh hold of distinguished accomplishment in the education of the youth of the metropolitan area. Its past growth has been the result of many hands pulling together toward a worthwhile objective. Its future must likewise depend upon the constant efforts of all friends of the College who set their sights upon worthwhile goals of highest quality. As the first graduating class receives its diploma, congratulations are in order all around. But it behooves us to do more than bask in the sunlight of achievement. The coming years present weighty problems to Oregon higher education. You who are now in college will be needed to help in their solution. Those who preceded you helped develop the educational process through which you are now progressing. If it is to be maintained and improved for those who follow, your shoulders will be needed at the wheel. John R. Richards Chancellor
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