Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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The Deans Their Messages Dean of Instruction Dean of Women The social life of the institution has altered with its growth and the increase of the average age of the student. What was once a private normal of the board- ing school type with both pupils and faculty housed under the roofs of the two school dormitories and eating together in the one dining room has become a state supported teachers college with the facul- ty mostly living in town and a large and growing group of commuting students. With a school population of student, fac- ulty and workers and their families and dependents larger than half the perman- ent population of the town, with the tradition of the rural boarding school and the private normal, it is easy to under- stand and to approve the local conven- tions. Our school song has it — For every law and rule of thine. Is made to fit our life ' s design. and the better one knows Mansfield the deeper one appreciates their truth and understands that Mansfield ' s success has been deeply rooted in the conventions lo which its traditional environment has for- tunately made it heir. — Dr. Belknap. With the help of the Faculty and the Students, the offices of the Dean of Women and Assistant Dean of Women have established a system where-in college activities such as club meetings, social affairs, lectures and visitors mav find a place in the College calendar. Through the cooperation of these organizations one with another each individual student is offered a greater opportunity for growth through the knowledge of outside inter- ests and activities. — Miss Frederick. Dean of Men Conventions may be good or bad — and there are times, no doubt, when even the best of them should be disregarded. Cultivation of the happy faculty of know- ing when to follow the beaten paths, and when to strike courageously away from them, is one of the worthwhile purposes of College education. Growth in this direction, as in any other, must come through exercise, for which there is abun- dant opportunity at Mansfield State Teachers College. — John D. Trimmer. 28

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The traditions of Mansfield State Teachers College have been formed through years of adherence to standards of public and personal conduct as befits men and women who earnestly seek to prepare themselves for the public service of teaching, and of living in conformity with an enlightened social conscience. The College, as a training school for public service, naturally adapts itself to obedience to laws and to such regulations as have the guiding effect of law. This means a college student-body of superior intellect and desires. However lofty this may sound, it is nevertheless true that the students are human and as such make mistakes. Here is where the most cherished tradition injects itself into the picture of college life. The combined Student Councils weigh all matters affecting student conduct, and recommend appropriate action. Their suggestions cannot always be carried out, but this alert group, chosen by the students themselves, keeps the college administration and leadership liberal in the interpretation of student life, but conservative in holding to that which is good. — William R. Slraughn. His Message His Home 27

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College Administration ir BAUER Behind the quiet re- serve of a man who holds his silence, is the poise of one educated at Pennsylvania State College. Practically be- lieing this calm atti- tude moves a seething interest in things more exciting as evidenced by an aquarium ot tropical fish, by his collection of pictures which indirectly prove his hobby of amateur photography and by his walk, swinging and typical. But this calm- ness is indeed not ar- tificial for his main ambition (so claimed i is — to keep out of trouble. BAXTER Beaver Falls. Pa . and Butcher ' s Business Col- lege lost a valuable cit- izen when Mansfield gained a new friend in her house Matron, i ' o job could become more tedious tlian this and yet no person is more capable of making us aware of her pleasant- ness. A reserve of ef- ficiency, a wealth of smiles, and letters f r o m her daughters seem to be the answer to her fine spirit. BUNN Good m o r n i n g. (said in a most enjoy- able voice) and Ihere ' v Miss Bunn. It may be that her training at Hornell Business Col- lege has its place in her career, it must be that kind-hearted good- ness which enables her to greet the world and its laggering payments with a smile, but cer- tainly it is some inner aid which helps her to fill such a large com- mand with so little con- fusion. DARRIN The Class of 1935 de- scribed Charlie as an individualist. They are proud that he was such to so great an extent as to win immediate rec- ognition. His love of nvimriiing. tennis, and the opera do not de- tract from his keen ap- preciation of literary work which strongly appeals as a career Equally alluring to such a versatile type is th? educational field, al- though Mr Darrin add- ed, not as a teacher. FREDERICK It would be prac- tically an impossibility to pay to any dean of women the tribute which is her just due. Officially her duties are defined as those spon- soring the activities of the women students, to provide the environ- ment in which each woman can develop to her maximum capacity. Thus Miss Frederick ' s innate artistic ability is also aptl - expressed through the medium of managing the lives of others. HABKNESS And an angel with a lantern came to each bedside. Thus was Florence Nightingale described and thus have her descendants b. ' cn considered by the ill. Nursing has always been an occupation de- manding high respect tor the main reason that such women as Anna Harkness have chosen to give their lives toward helping others. HEWSON Accuracy for detail. Miss Hewson has ;h? opportunity to observe many hundreds oi ' stu- dents who invariably forget the important items and stress the insignificant. but al- ways she keeps her eye upon the necessary, warns the foolish ot absent-mindedness, and adaots an awe-striking attitude of her position. But to those who know and also admire her as Edna . this clever dresser is fun-loving as well as forceful. JUPENLAZ Dr Jekyl had noth- ing on his Mr. Hyde in comparison to ihe seemingly sophisticated Secretary to the Presi- dent of Mansfield State or when she is merely Miss Jupenlaz. Tlie se- rious business-like look and tone drop into ban- tering laughter and often result in those clever jokes for which she is faculty-iamed As to hobbies and am- bitions — well — Jupie has em. 29