<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/about/history/1960s/end-beginning.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The End of the Beginning</title><excerpt>A gulf greater than 10 years separates 1960 from 1970. The world of colleges and universities shifted its axis during that difficult decade. Westmont changed too, but in a different way. Despite the upheaval elsewhere, the curriculum and mission at Westmont remained unchanged. The College experienced a coming of age, not a revolution. The faculty, the campus, and the enrollment grew up in the 1960s. At the same time, many traditions died out. So the 1960s marked the end of an era – the end of Westmont’s beginning.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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