Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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CONTENTS QQ THE COLLEGE-FOREWORD . DEDICATION . PRESIDENTS MESSAGE . THE COUNTRY SCHOOL FACULTY . . . GRADUATES . Seniors . Juniors . UNDERCLASSNIEN . Soplromores . Freshmen ACTIVITIES . Student Council Year Book . Beacon Music Drama Sports Todd Lectur Assembly . Dormitory Life . SPECIAL FEATURES Snapshots . . I'Iumor 8

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DEDICATION We, the Iunior Class, in true appreciation and grate- ful acknowledgment of his generous interest and aid in our problems, dedicate this yearbook - THE TACONIAN-to MR. WALLACE l-l. VENABLE 7

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE To All Cur Friends: In these diihcult days America can show nothing finer than the loyalty and devof tion of the teachers in her public schools to the best interests of the children in those schools. The student in a state teachers college shows a similar devotion as she makes ready for the day when she will step into her own classroom, an understanding friend to a lively and happy group of boys and girls. I am going to ask you a question. How extensive has been the influence of the institution formerly known as the North Adams Normal School, now the State Teachers College at North Adams? Neither you nor I nor anyone else could possibly answer. But of this fact I am sure. The publicfspirited citizens, who, forty years ago, secured legislative consent to the establishment of this school, won a victory for edu' cation not merely in North Adams but throughout the Commonwealth, and in other states and in other lands as well. However, we can get some idea of the extent of the past influence of this college by doing a little example in arithmetic. Given that the State Teachers College at North Adams has eighteen hundred graduates, and assuming that the service of each has continued over a period of years, so that she has taught a number of pupils averagf ing one hundred fifty-I think this is a conservative estimate-into how many lives has the influence of our college already been extended? The answer is two hundred seventy thousand. But we do not rest content with laurels already won. All who aspire to the honored name of teacher must prepare themselves faithfully, as our students are now doing, and with firm and confident step must move forward. Let North Adams be known as a college that produces teachers who in the finest sense are progressive, and we shall make the circle of her influence an ever widening one. ALBERT G. ELDRIDGE, President. 9