Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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SENIOR CLASS ADVISERS Miss Mary Elizabeth Dixon George R. Anderson Miss Dixon lives by the philosophy that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and anyone who is fortunate enough to come in contact with this young lady knows that is true. In sports this is evident by the wonderfully successful field hockey team she helped coach this past year. This, by the way, is Miss Dixon's favorite sport along with tennis. Although this girls' gym teacher docs not play a musical instrument or act, she is very fond of scmiclassical and classical music and of the legitimate theatre. Miss Dixon feels that her most valuable experience in her life was the two year period she spent in the Navy. She was a physical education instructor at Hunter College, New York, and, as such, was exposed to many different points of view. Although Miss Dixon's life now centers around physical education—she hopes to be head of a department somewhere—she had planned to become a scientist. While she was going to Slippery Rock S.T.C., Miss Dixon worked at a chemical laboratory’ of a dairy products plant during the summer. Incidental information: she is very fond of icecream. At present our class adviser is working on her doctorate at Penn State, which she hopes to get by next year. One of the policies that governs Miss Dixon's life is to set a goal to reach, and once she has reached it, set a higher one. Her goal now is her Ph.D. After this is reached—she isn't sure what comes next, but we know that it will be a worthy one. In 1932, Mr. Anderson had to make a choice between becoming a professional musican or continuing teaching. It was fortunate for Millcrsvillc when the chose the latter career. Since that time, Mr. Anderson has proven to himself and to everyone that he was cut out for the teaching profession. Mr. Anderson has had many experiences to draw from to aid him in being the excellent teacher he is. He worked his way through four years at Penn State and held many interesting unusual jobs—at one time or another he was a coal miner, a farmer, and a newspaperman. While it is as a teacher of mathematics that Mr. Anderson holds his position here at Millersville, most of the students know him as the director of the college band. Mr. Anderson's first love is math, and his second love, running a close second, is band music. In this field also our class adviser has had some rich experiences, working under great men as Crcatore, and knowing personally Goldman, the band-master and Howard and Branson, conductors of the Air Corps and Marine Bands, respectively. Mr. Anderson's policy is to try something new and different every five years. In 1945 he flew to California with a friend in a small two-seater (Mr. Anderson holds a pilot's license). This year he toured Key West with his charming family. What does 1955 hold for Mr. Anderson ? Whatever it is, we wish him the best of luck.