Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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mmim issace To Each Student of the Northwest Missouri State College: You ore not restricted in your freedom to think of ways and means that may be used to make the environment in which you live a better place for you and your associates. I trust you never will be so restricted. As a college student you have the opportunity to acquire knowledge in many fields. Are you concerned about how you con use this knowledge to help yourself and others to a better world? I wish to em- phasize that you are bound only by the limits you place upon yourself. As a college educated man or woman you have the ability and the responsibility to improve this old world of ours. What needs to be done? Chiefly, I think, to channel the power that is within you towards attaining better things for this world. There are many tasks yet to b e done in your major and minor fields of educational interest that will contribute to the welfare and the happiness of people. You must put your abilities to work. Let your imagination run for ahead of present accomplishments and dream of the things you would like to achieve for the future. Be alert to the opportunities that are about you on every hand. Apply the facts you have stored in your mind in order to gain the worth-while things you want to accomplish. Only through your fervent efforts con the Golden Future be realized. z :— J. W. Jones, President Page 9

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OF THE FACOLTY All of us were deeply gratified by the thirty per cent increose In enrollment this year over last, in spite of the many problems resulting therefrom for the faculty. This, with the similar increase of a year ago, is an expression of confidence in this College by the young men and young women of northwest Missouri. Yet, we hope that mounting enrollments here will not cause us to lose the character and atmosphere which have endeared this college to its graduates through the years. Chief among these are a sound academic program with standards high, and a friendly relationship between faculty and students. The construction of buildings, equipment purchases, and staff additions will of necessity occupy much of our at- tention in the future. We are compelled to look ahead. At the same time, awareness and regard for the past are needed. Thomas Masaryk counseled his countrymen: States can be maintained only by respecting those ideals which brought them into existence . Institutions of higher learn- ing may profit from the some counsel. W. A. Brandenburg mU OF REOE TS front Row: A. B. Vogt, M. E. Ford, Harold M. Hull. Bock Row: W. A. Rickenbrode, Secretary, H. F. Sii Dawson, Dr. J. W. Jones. R. L. Douglas, W. M. C. Page 10 Unsung but all important directive body of our State College is its Board of Regents. Six of the most capable and dis- tinguished men of the district of north- west Missouri are appointed to posi- tions on the board by the Governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. By low the Board of Regents estab- lishes the policies under which the school operates. To the left are those men, all with the inspired interest of progressive education at heart, who currently hold seats on the Board.