Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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1 ... Junior High Supervisors MISS HUGHES MRS. SMITH MISS POWELL MISS GRESS MR. HOVIS MISS FREY MISS CATON MISS HAVERSTICK . . . Elementary Supervisors MR. BAILEY MRS. COUNCILMAN MISS ROTHE MISS ADAMS MISS THOMSON MISS SIMERSON MISS HOFFMEIER . . . Librarians MRS. SMITH MISS GANSER MISS TERRY 20

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After having devoted forty-six years of his life to the teaching profession, President Tanger is retiring. Dr. Landis Tanger was graduated from Millersville State Normal School in 1898, and the Class of 1943 is happy to have such an illustrious alumnus ''re-graduating” with them. The Seniors extend to him their best wishes for his happiness. During his presidency, Millersville State Teachers College has made great progress. In 1929 when President Tanger took charge, the new elementary building was being erected, and in a short time was occupied. The next year this college was chosen to prepare teachers for Industrial Arts; it also became a member of the American Association of Teachers Colleges. The president's residence was built and occupied in the following year. In 1930 the Film Library was started. Among the improvements made within the next few years are the following: the removal of the porches from the front of the main building and the construction of the terraces, the opening up of the reception halls, adding the Day Student and the Library Science Rooms, the installation of smoketowers instead of the old winding stairs on either side of the administration offices, addition of the dining-room foyer, as well as the hallway between the bookroom and the offices. When a water shortage threatened, a well was drilled and an electric pump installed. In 1936 a new heating plant was erected to heat all the new buildings and to provide for expansion of the college. Brooks Hall, the new gymnasium containing a swimming pool and modern equipment, was built. Wickersham Hall was erected and its classrooms and laboratories were later fully furnished. In 1941 the new buildings were occupied, which enabled the college to discontinue the use of Recitation Hall, and to devote the entire Science Build- ing to Art and Industrial Arts. During these years the athletic field was leveled, the mud was cleaned from the lake, concrete walks were laid from Brooks Hall to Wickersham, a tennis court was built near the president's house, and two wings for a library and a recreation room, were added to the Elementary Building. The tangible improvements in the form of new buildings are easily measured, but other phases must not be forgotten. Under Dr. Tanger's capable guidance the sphere of influence of the college has been broadened. and Millersville State Teachers College has made great strides toward new and improved educational goals. When asked what his hope for the future of the College is. Dr. Tanger replied: I hope that it will be adapted to the needs of war and post-war periods, and that those in charge v ill look forward to the centennial celebration in 1955. Finally, development in thorough mastery in the several fields of learning, a close and happy cooperation between the teachers of college classes and the supervisors of the training school, and a sympathetic relation with the public and its schools, will make Millersville a most outstanding college.” li

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English and Arts MR. PORTER MISS SWIFT MISS SNYDER MR. McCOMSEY MISS SPENCER MISS LENHARDT . . . Education, Psychology, Social Science DR. HULL DR. DUTCHER MR. HOVIS DR. MYERS DR. STINE MR. BASSLER . . . Science and Mathematics DR. GERHART MR. BECKMEYER DR. BOYER 21