Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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Not all of our buildings have undergone dra- matic changes. Belknap Hall still houses classrooms and faculty offices, and Straughn Auditorium still holds theatrical productions as well as guest speakers, muscial and dance performances here on campus. Other buildings have come to take their place in Mansfield college life. Buildings with names like Manser, Memorial, De cker, Doane, Grant, Richards House, Butler Cen- ter, and Beecher House, These buildings have become a part of Mansfield and will make their particlular make on those stu- dents who have, and those students who will also become a part of Mansfield. After all, the history of Mansfield Unviersity of Pennsylvania and Mansfield State collge, and Mansfield State Teacher ' s College, and Mansfield Normal School, is not just the his- tory of the buildings that have stood here on this hill. It is the history of the people who have lived and laughed, worked and learned, and succeeded and failed within the walls of those buildings. It is easy to recount the history of the phys- ical structure of this college, but the true history is the story of the changes that we all have endured throughout time. The Car- ontawan is a pactoral record of the changes that have occ ured in those people who have passed through Mansfield on their way to something else. That, something else is history, itself. Because isn ' t the history of Mansfield the history of this Common- wealth, this country, and this world? It is this which we are celebrating in this, the 125th year of Mansfield as an institiution of higher learning. Through those people, the administration, the faculty, those involved in related support servicesc and the students themselves, the ideas that have carried Mansfield through 125 years of existence, will perpetuate through those who have been within these walls and all of those who have yet to come here to continue the history of Mansfield.