Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE APPRECIATE Progress as the theme of this yearbook, for it challenges thought at a time when we are all inclined to give way to a prevailing economic pessimism. We are fortunate that the progress of this institution has not been even temporarily retarded: in spite of economic stress the institution has in many things moved steadily forward. Significant among the items of progress is the growing power of the student body as exemplified by the splendid social controls it has built up, its improved class work. and its professional spirit. Perhaps unwillingly, this year's student body is building tradition that will be significant in the lives of future students. We regret the loss of our graduates. Their influence has been challenging and constructive. It is the desire of the staff that these ine spiritual qualities may be carried by graduates into the profession in the face of all obstacles. For them is the message from Thomas A. Edison: My message to you is, Be courageous! I have lived a long time. I have seen history repeat itself again and again. I have seen many depressions. Always, America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you were. Have faith. Go forward! FRANK D. MCELROY. Thirteen si 1. 1 -if f .1 I I - . . A , . J, I 4 L' ,EE ljijf gel fi -rf el. if Y ' If 3 ' el 44 I: if U1 li l. S' ' 7' kip 1 A 5713- 1 135 lil' :xl we l l 323-qi i 'ai' ir. 'Cir-ff' 1 'f -191 j' P33 l l ll H :mf F 15 j 2 , ii iff I 5

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.Y sli 3 , Z l .1 i , L 1: .13 'i . ' u S I . P' .Az 3 Fx: rg: L x ' -Z . . Q ' an 5 if 'gg-s A N- ' . I .r E N 3 2- .Q ' ' Rx I 1 Nr i . . .. QQ.. QE Ns gf N- .: '+- zj. M '- fi I X L ,Q 1 in-2 - .1254 ll 1 xx. I 11-Q ll fl: l 5.-:Y I X F11 xx l 2 l 4 . 1 1 .F vc .- 1 f. ., X .- c Indeed we did. He had meant so much to the students and teachers that it was hard to imagine anyone filling his place adequately. After some weeks of anxiety on our part, a professor of history in Carleton College was appointed as our new president. Of course we were eager to see him. He was a tall man with a fine physique, luxuriant brown hair and beard, and serene blue eyes. His gracious and rather courtly manner won him many friends at once. Our appre- ciation of him has increased with the years, and we are glad he is still with us as our President Emeritus. We soon met Mrs. Cooper and three charming children: Helen, who is now teaching French in the College, Margaret, who entered the fifth grade in the Training School and much later became the head of our Training School, and imaginative young Robert. You must have seen many changes in the College during these forty years, I suggested. Everything is different. There is nothing on the campus that was here when I came, except a stone bearing the date when the old building was erected. If you go to the rear of the College, you will find above the stage door a yellow stone that is marked 'State Normal School l869.' I suppose the course of study has been greatly changed, I offered. Under President Cooper's able leadership, the school took great strides. Many changes came in the curriculum, especially in the addition of both aca- demic and professional subjects. Standards for admission were raised, and the faculty was gradually increased until it reached the present number of forty- nine. Do we students today seem t.o you like those students of the old Normal School days? No, many of them were older than you are. High schools were fewer then, and education was not so easy to obtain as it now is. Perhaps that is why they seem in retrospect to have been more earnest, more eager to improve all oppor- tunities than young people of today. However, it may be because I am growing older. You know, 'the good old days' that we like to look back upon were really not so superior to the present after all-and young people are much alike from one generation to another. Of course, Mrs. Parry remarked, as her black eyes twinkled, the changes in the training school seem especially important to me. In th.ose early days all the practice teaching was done in the Campus School: so that a girl taught a little group of a dozen children under a critic's supervision, Today most of the teaching is done by skilled teachers: the students have the splendid oppor- tunity of observing and participating in this teaching: and after a time they go out to our cooperating schools where they get experience in situations similar to those they will find after graduation. This has been so interesting, Mrs. Parry. Don't you sometimes wonder what the future will bring to the College? She l.ooked thoughtful as she answered, I do often think about the future of the College. Its whole history has been one of development and growth. The years to come under the leadership of President McElroy, whose watchword is Progress, will be, I am sure, even more fruitful: so that in 1973, some other teacher will be telling another curious student about the strange things that were done in the College back in l933.

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L-ig, 3 lHA'l1 . -1 . 2.1 Tl Q A z Zf' Q -'15 3 r 'fn ffh' rw' , :wa .a we--1 ,. 4 Vw' w,.,,, , ,i '?.:. . M,-I., W ' CHARLES H. COOPER ' '-.s e -'E'S,i,'.x5f l . . :1LCw fM'fd'l'f i3: 'SgY ' President Emeritus 1 '3'.,?gv'i f4f ,xfgg,gQ Hisrory O 'V-'Q' - A-B.. A. M,. Dartmouth College N Q fi 751, , OTTO WELTON SNARR Director of Training , v ' V Education 121 , 43515 W Diploma. Shepherd confgf srm Fllziffie' 3 ' Normal School ' A ' f AB.. A.M.. Wm Virginia Univcrsity -' sg y lgtvi z' MAURIKIE J. NELSON Dean of Men Manual Arts Advanced Diploma. Stou! lnstixulc SARA NORRIS Dean of Women Sociology B.A,. Oxford College for Women MJK.. University of Wisconsin ALICE V. ROBBINS Sim' M alhemalics B.L.. Univcrsiry of Texas A. M.. University of Chicago MINNIE SWEETLAND PARRY Principal of College Elementary School Diploma. Oswego Normal School Fourrrcn