Westfield State University - Tekoa Yearbook (Westfield, MA)

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FORE WORD We invite you to pause with us for a few brief moments while we review our past four years at Westfield. Our experiences, as they are recorded here, include growth of personality, mind, and spirit, all parts of the truly complex process of education. In four years, by means of this process, we have been transformed from a collection of varied individuals to a unified class of skilled and enthusiastic future educators. We realize that what we are now will change as we become more educated by life, but we are also aware that we laid our foundations here at Westfield. Here we took our first and most important steps. Each of us, as we become further educated by the challenges of our field in the modern world, will have cause to reflect on the educational journey recorded here. We have chosen as our theme for Tekoa 1961, Education . . . Now and Tomorrow, the education of experience and of books. We hope that in these pages we have adequately presented a record that will remain long after our memories have faded.

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TEKOA 1961 Westfield State College Westfield, Massachusetts Founded in 1839

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REFLECTIONS . . . When we, the class of 1961, passed through this gateway for the first time, we were bound only by a common numeral. Class spirit was merely a vague notion that we had just begun to consider. Four years of living and experiencing together have given the expression, concrete meaning for us. We are now a class in fact and not merely on paper. Ours is a class bound together by a rare amount of enthusiasm. It is enthusiasm often expressed in a reserved and constructive way, and often in a spontaneous and frivilous way. It can be heard in the roar of a sports car, cheers from the baseball fields, animated conversation echoing through the lecture hall.