Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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JAMES G. MORGAN President of the College It is always a sincere pleasure to extend congratulations to the members of a Senior Class on the threshold of graduation. This pleasure is greatly en- hanced by the fact that the student body is rapidly approaching normality and that former students and others who have so courageously discharged their duties in the service of their country are returning to the campus. Your class during the past four years has been confronted with abnormal conditions. The tensions and sorrows, the strain and stress of the war years have all shad- owed the gayety of college life. You have experienced curtailed activities and intercollegiate associations, and yet, have strengthened the bonds of campus friendship, preserved our college traditions and the spirit that is Mansfield. It is our hope that every one of you will meet the grave challenges and tremen- dous opportunities for service in the years ahead in the same loyal spirit with which you responded to the duties of a citizen in a nation at war — and that for each of you the best is yet to be .

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At the conclusion of the worst war in history we of the allied nations in addition to being grateful for the victory which has come to us must also face the problem that the war has opened all frontiers and we must turn and live with the peoples of all nations. As college women you can make a tremDndous contribu- tion by facing this task courageously. The teach- ing profession embodies the spirit of service to others and that is a basic keynote in under- standing people. By assuming this social re- sponsibility ably, by understanding our present heritage in terms of the past, by being interested sufficiently in the group of which you are a part to take an active interest in its projects, by being a person whose life is characterized by qualities of high character, leadership and service, by possessing an intelligent calm spirit, and by practicing a philosophy to live usefully and bravely, you will do much to guide others to live successfully with the people of the world. Dorothy M. Wasley, Dean o Women Deans A moment of retrospect shows a great con- trast between the college years of 1944-45 and 1945-46. The former was a period when all eyes were focused upon the armed conflicts of the world and the many immediate problems. A glance at the present shows this year to be one in which Japan ' s premature collapse brought use face to face with the immediate execution of certain of the preconceived post- war plans. It is a time of welcoming into our , midst two groups of young men. One is com- posed of those young men who left us to enter the armed services, the other those young men who are entering colloge for the first time. Both are taking advantage of the opportunity to obtain more education. It is with great pride that we welcome them into our midst. May you never lose sight of the fact that an enlight- ened public is a most desirable goal. It will be your duty to wage the war against ignorance by carrying the torch of knowledge into the schools of our country as you carried the battle for the four freedoms to the corners of the earth. Hold the torch high. Cyril L. Stout, Acting Dean of Men ■-■ :0 t '