Kean University - Memorabilia Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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YEAR BOOK STAFF Editor-in-chief Associate Editor Assistant Associate Editors Business Manager Art Editor Literature Editors Club Editor Sports Editor Humor Editor Advertising Personnel Board WILLIAM HUMMEL GERTRUDE FISCHER CAROLYN HANCE HELEN SAUER NATHAN SILVERMAN AASTA INDAHL CAROLYN BYRD LILLIAN KENT THELMA SWENSON ARTHUR WENZEL JOHN CLOVES SAUL MARION JOSEPH DUNKERLEY DOROTHY APGAR JOHN MARKOWITZ SALLY STARK DORIS SMITH DOROTHY SOUTER

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A MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF ' 37 In the course of our sojourn here at the Teachers College, the faculty and administration has endeavored to instill in us a working understanding of the distinction which constitutes a person, embodied in that all-important word, Personality. Regardless of a teacher ' s nationality, religious and political beliefs, there are three persistent qualities in a teacher ' s personality which have been, are, and always will be emphasized: A teacher must be well at home in his or her branch of teaching. A teacher must have patience with the individual pupil as well as with the whole class. A teacher must know the technique of teaching his or her subject. Through the efforts of our faculty, while at school, and our efforts while at practice, I deeply believe we have obtained these personality qualifications. What are the characteristics of a good teacher? In the broadest sense of the word every man and every kind of environ- ment is an educator, because man has an influence upon his environment and the environment has an influence upon the man. What is an educator? He or she who works consciously upon a plan on lifting up the values in other people, especially in children and youth. The most important item in Education is the relationship which exists between pupils and teachers. It is not enough to know the cross section in a child ' s development according to age, but we must apply all modern studies dealing with the child in such a way that we may help him in his immediate needs which he faces in daily school routine. We must seek, for example, to what mental type a child belongs. It is a fact that the power of visualization is necessary for achievements in arts, in the natural sciences, and in mathe- matics. It is true that auditory images are all important for music and English. Surely motor images are indispensible in drawing and modelling, in Indus- trial Arts, and in all feats of Skill. In facing a group of pupils in a class we meet all kinds of mental types. And in order to reach them all alike we as ' the teacher should apply the principles which we have learned at this college, that of multiple sense appeal. As we depart from these portals to engage in our chosen life ' s work, that of instilling fundamental knowledges, good habits, skills, and legion of other educational experiences remember the words of that great philosopher, Count Tolstoy, in his book Resurrection . One of the first widespread super- stitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etc. Men are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, oftener wise than stupid, oftener energetic than apathetic, etc. or the reverse; but it would be false to say of one man that he is kind and wise, of another that he is wicked and foolish. And yet we classify mankind in this way. And that is untrue. Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and like in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man. Let us strive, classmates, at the beginning of our careers, to be both artists and scholars, constantly applying ourselves and studying. PAUL A. MEISTER. Eleven

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PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE WILLIAM HUMMEL NATHAN SILVERMAN CAROLYN BYRD GERTRUDE FISCHER PERLE GREENSPAN Thirteen