Harpur College 1965 Yearbook (Binghamton, NY) - Full Access

'77u 0tUu Tea R()()TTI" 1 he vets w r tough and town-gown relation were oft n trained but th ir reputation a guy who could eat spiked shoes was severely hurt when a twenty-three y ar old fre hman wa tabbed by orne punk from Union-Endicott High. After that, the college roughs could never gain back the psy– chological edge they had gained wh n the punks knew that these were men who had swallowed shrap– nel omewh re in the blue Pacific. "Toum-gown rtlatzomhzp:r 1uu oflm stramed" bout the tim of the stabbing, the tate Uni– versity of ew York grabbed the foundling from yra– cu e and T.C.C. became Harpur College, Queen of the Liberal Arts. Now that the State ruled over th Endicott fire trap, the Provo t Glenn Gardner Bartle, could se hi dream realized. (It was Dr. Bartl who coined th phra e ' I have a dream." It wa Mr. B lniak, then an In tructor in Citizenship, who coin d the phra e 'tho e who don t know his– are doomed to repeat it.') Bartle's dreams were almost shattered by the Korean War which brought with it the fear that Harpur' mal might be drafted. He said at that time: even if mobilization hould remove all male tudent w hall carry a full program. However, the American people placed Dwight Eisenhower 8 into the White Hou e, and a just and honorable eace wa made. and if they au all drafted" In 1951, the school wa officially dedicated and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, former candidate for President of the United States, came to the Triple Cities to dedicate the school. The campus police and all the dignitaries greeted the governor. People who had wondered how Mr. Dewey had been able to capture the hearts of all Americans in 1948 wondered no more when they heard hi extremely moving speech. I dedrcale llarpur College thzs solmzn nzght, pledged to trvth. I dedzcate 11 pledguJ to the 1dea of .fru– dom on thiS earth, pledged to the concept that the dzgn1ty of mmrlcznd u more 1111portant than any other cour:rt, pledged to fazth "' the nght and the :nue trwwltdgt llult ja1th zn tht nght wz/1 tnumph zn tht end. These noble words did not alter the life on the dingy Endicott campus. The overhead pipes were till gathering rust. The school had a continually large turnover of faculty, but was becoming less vet-orien– tated.