SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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If we could turn hack the wheels of time today and read the History of the State Normal School as the swift years whirl by again, we should find that a domi- nant personality had so entered the life of the institution and had caught such a vision that the School would he the work of his hands and the establishment of his intellect and heart. As we look forward into the future in the heyday of our youth we rejoice that we can carry with us so much of the vigor and radiating influence of our honored and beloved Principal. Today we bring the enrichment of our lives from Alma Mater and lay them before the world for service therein- seeking to perpetuate the influence of the work that has been wrought upon us through the masterful wisdom and keen foresight of Dr. George K. Hawkins who now completes twenty-five years of educational states- manship as Principal of the State Normal School at Plattshurgh. 9

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(iKORGK KNIGHT HAWKINS Ten Broeck Free- Academy, Franklinville, 1881; State Normal School , I ' redonia, 1884; Sherburne Academy. Principal, 1881-1890; Union College, A. M.. I S!H ; State Normal School. Plattsburgh, Professor of Mathematics. 1890-1898; Saint Lawrence University. D. Sc.. 190.-,: Stale Normal School, Plattsburgh, Princi- pal, 1898-1923.

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It lias been no purpose of ours to mold you into merely cloistered students habituated solely to the con- templation of the eternal worth of thought and the pre- eminence of the prophet and the seer . We have planned for you an intensely constructive career which shall have small space for egoism and shall require that you employ your highest cultural possessions of intellect and heart as instruments to he used in tangible and synthetic fashion for the positive betterment of that portion of the world in which your lot may fall. It is our trust that you will meet your serious duties with industry, with earnestness and with wisdom — with the patriotic devotion of highbred Americans and with all the bold initiative which is characteristic of America at her best. 1U