Presque Isle High School - Ship Yearbook (Presque Isle, ME)

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE April IQ, i943. Dear Members of the Class of I943: You are to be congratulated for several reasons. ln spite of the fact that in this war as in the first World War enrollments in normal schools and colleges have shown a marked decrease because of the encroaching needs of armed forces and various war demands, you people as a group have realized that education for America's future citizens is also a priority and have accordingly completed your three years of training in most satisfactory numbers. To your class, also goes the honor of being pioneers in the new cadet system, created to meet the existing teacher shortage problem. Because of your cooperation, the doors of eleven rural schools in our country have remained open this year-a very direct contribution on your part to the war. Forty years ago this spring the Aroostook State Normal School was created by an act of Maine Legislature. Since that time our graduates have gone to man the various schools of our own and other counties, spreading an ever-increasing circle of influence. Now you, too, are soon to carry your share in education's service to the next generation. You will enter upon your work at a time full of questions and problems, both for your- self and for those you teach. You will see some of your friends filling positions at greater pay for less hours of work. There will be times when, discouraged, you may wonder if you cannot serve your country better in some direct way. ln the classroom you will find yourself struggling against a fast-rising flood of problems-irregular attendance clue to working demands on the boys and girls, lessened interest and un- settled attitudes on the part of those who in a few years must assume an adult's part in the world. All these you will face-and more. Yet, knowing you each in our three years of working together, we are confident that you will face these difficulties and rise above them. For there will come to you the steadying reassurance that in this field in which you have trained is your greatest contribution to the war effort and that in this time of acute teacher shortage, there is no one to take your place, should you desert. Realizing that after the war is won, the greater task lies ahead in the wise assembling of a world on an international basis: knowing, too, that those who must take charge in that period of reorganizing will even this coming year be in your classrooms, and that in the wise development of these future citizens, no one can make a greater contribution to this new world than you-understanding these things, there will come to you a feeling of content in the work you do and a- sense of pride that you have undertaken it. Cordially yours, CLIFFORD O. T. WIEDEN. i iii

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PRINCIPAL CLIFFORD O. T. WIEDEN, B. S., Ed. M I 'OI

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