Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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TO OUR SENIORS In this trying period of social stress and economic strain, youthful college graduates are confronted with a marvelous world of boundless opportunity. Through the unprecedented development of scientific invention, the advent of labor-saving machinery, the pragmatic approach to the ultimate solution of problems involving capital and labor, the social entry of government into the field of private enterprise, the increasing demand for creative abil- ity in the realm of commercial and business activity, and the gradual emergence of a new cultural and scientific America, the wide range of unlimited possibility is definitely expand- ing in every avenue of human endeavor- Such is the re- markable wonder-world into which college seniors will be projected on graduation day. Unwarranted pessimism and cynical carping about dark days ahead will not daunt stout-hearted men and women of intelligence. Such attitudes merely temper the true and tried steel of trusty warriors. They spur real thinking individuals onward and upward, and constitute a fighting challenge in which the beginnings of an uncon- querable spirit are created. The world becomes theirs not for the asking, but for the effort spent in trying. With character, optimism, perseverance, patience, and understanding, coupled with honesty and industry, our graduates can accomplish anything they wish to achieve. The best wishes of Mansfield accompany them in this new world of practical reality. JOSEPH F. NOON AN. President of the College. President ' s Message

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Mansfield State Teachers Col- lege in its endeavor to serve the Commonwealth well aims to build on the secure foundation which seven- ty-six years of life have given it by recognizing the changing needs of the individual and of the whole so- cial structure of which this College and this State form a part. Marie G. Andrews Mansfield begins a new phase of its history with a program of physi- cal expansion. This furnishes a challenge to each faculty member and student to make a sincere and determined effort that the college may contribute even more than in the past to the educational life of the state and to the progress of a chang- ing civilization. P. J. Steele The Deans An education, properly defined and broadly conceived, is the only permanent investment possible in our changing age. I congratulate our students, and all other students of their generation, on their unique opportunity so to know themselves and the world in which they live as to lay up securely and safely this one sound investment. A. T. Belknap 14