Lock Haven University - Praeco Yearbook (Lock Haven, PA)

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cross-country flights . . . nothing could stop us now . . . we were too old for Spring fever, but cramming was a bare necessity . . . some of us joined Kappa Delta Pi . . . some of us were football heroes . . . some of us were delegates to conferences . . . we were indispensable to the life of the college . . . we went to the Junior Prom and helped to promote the Senior Ball . . . we began to wonder about the over-crowded iieldsf' After three years of hard work, of long hours of study and the acquisition of a vast amount of knowledge we became Seniors . . . just listen to that word . . . Seniors . . . we would not be here much longer, but we had a lot to remember . . . from our class we had football captains. next-to-professional wrestlers and boxers. officers in many organizations and the leaders of campus life. That Senior year was wonderful . . . we felt like adults . . . we were adults . . . some of us learned about selective service . . . some of us voted and paid taxes . . . YVe were prepared to take our places in the society of America as responsible citizens and teachers. Yve entered thc experience of student teaching with much anxiety . . . we tin- ished, feeling capable of being called Miss or Mr.', . . . teachers with experi- ence . . . we learned about students and began to practice what we had learned . . . handed out home work . . . gave grades . . . coped With disciplinary problems . . . What is wrong with these pupils?', . . . How can we make them want to learn? . . . Who said I wanted to be a teacher? . . . Just wait until I get a jobf' We had our pictures taken for place- ment cards, and began to consider the teachers' agencies . . . we looked forward to being economically independent . . . we interviewed school board directors . . . the end of the year came too soon . . . the Junior-Senior Ball . . . the Senior Banquet . . . then the Alumni Banquet when we realized how out of things we would be . . . college students no more . . . we tried on caps and gowns . . . we went to Bacca- laureate . . . then Commencement . . . we turned the tassels on our caps and walked out with B.S. degrees . . . we had earned them! The old Bald Eagle was now the symbol of all the best times . . . the most profitable years . . . the busiest period of our lives. President '41

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CLASS Pres idcm' ......... Vice Presfirlmzt ..... Secretary ...., N lreasurefr. . . , I fl1,'i.s'f'r ..., Wle came to Lock Haven in 1937 be- cause we wanted a college education . . . because we wanted to be teachers . . . or because . . . Our Freshman year was a hard struggle because we were really over- grown high school students who were eX- pected to be adults . . . We forgot to wear stockings-or neckties-in the dining room . . . we forgot to go through receiving lines . . . we neglected to pay the proper respect to deans and instructors . . . but we soon learned! . . . After Freshman Cus- toms and semester examinations we began to acquire that collegiate air . . . we began to appreciate the Bald Eagle of I..H.S. T.C., and went home that year deter- mined to return. The Sophomore year was hard . . . we felt like testing our wings for long-distance jaunts but . . . for some reason . . . we could not gain the desired respect . . . only Freshman cowered beneath our tyrannical glance . . . we began to realize the scope of this business of education and began to look forward to our being in the field . . . VVe had our first taste of electing courses of study, and most of us began to be sure of our majors and minors . . . Phys, Ed. , English, History, hlath and others . . . some of us gravitated toward OF 1941 XVILLIAM lNIAs'rif1RsoN . . . .I,oU1s MA1t'i'r11,LA . . .Lois XVAGNER . . .Ronnnr Bowles . . . .hhss BlcN'rLEY the younger school ages and chose ele- mentary . . . we all knew whether or not we wanted to teach . . . or thought we did. This Sophomore year we gained more confidence in social contacts . . . formal dances, like the Soph Hop . . . teas . . . all-school parties . . . everyone learned the meaning of 'fcfampusologyv . . . and apple polishing . . . Teachers began to look like real people . . . we began to feel like teach- ers. The Junior year was not a picnic . . . we were considered childish if we liked roller skating or high school girls . . . we began to talk about VVhen we were youngi' . . . we were all business that year . . . because we had to be . . . we took methods courses and elected most of our Subjects . . . History students studied his- tory . . . English students studied English . . . Phys. Ed. majors danced and learned about muscles . . . Elementary majors sang and painted pictures . . . we were be- coming teachers! . . . That year both Freshmen and Sophomores looked at us with glassy awe-ful eyes . . . we were really upperclassmen. Receiving lines were a matter of course, and we felt at ease at any banquet or so- cial event . . . our wings were capable of 28

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CLASS OF 1941 BRUCE ADAMS Lock Haven Geography, Social Studies HELEN BECKENBAUGH Flemington Intermediate WILLIAM BEIGHTOL Clearield Science, Geography ROBERT BOWES Mill Hall Mathematics, Science RICHARD BROWN Loganton English, History ESTHER CRISMAN Allenwood English, Speech