Kutztown University - Keystonia Yearbook (Kutztown, PA)

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keystonia staff FEATURE EDITOR ASSOCIATES CLASS EDITOR ASSOCIATES SPORTS EDITOR ASSOCIATES ART EDITOR ASSOCIATES PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ASSOCIATE ADVERTISING EDITOR ASSOCIATES Margaret Gabel Phyllis Becker Kathleon Hainos Donald Workhoisor John Boyd Donald Strausburger Marilyn Ward Marjorie Fluck Patricia Trumbauer John Stutzman Gladys Stoudt George Skeeba Robert Doney Peter Bugda William McHale Alfred Bashore William Galgon John Shoetz Edward Smith Theodore Scarpino

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theme THIS IS KUTZTOWN V F we were again to examine Kutz- town State Teachers College with the eyes of a casual observer, if we were able to dissociate ourselves from the life at Kutztown and to assume the role of sightseer, many would be our impressions. This is Old Main, center of all activities. Here are housed the admin- istrative offices, approximately two- thirds of the classrooms, and the whole of the dormitories. It boasts a spacious concourse for the student's social use. This, we say, is a PART of Kutztown. We are now ascending the steps of a small but impressive stone building directly across from Old Main. The charging desk, the reference room, the reading room, and the browsing room of the library pass under our scrutiny. This, too, is a PART of Kutztown. The building to the right of the library and set back some distance from the main line of buildings is the Nathan Schaeffer Auditorium. In this Georgian building are held the weekly assemblies, evening performances, music classes, choir, and band and orchestra rehearsals. This, also, is a PART of Kutztown. Wo pass over ihe laboratory school and the infirmary to the gymnasium. Few are the students leaving Kutztown who have not been enrolled in a gym class, who have not enjoyed dancing on its floor, or who have not been spectators at a basketball game. The hockey field, the baseball diamond, and the football field are visible from the gymnasium. All these are a PART of Kutztown. A little removed from the other campus buildings stands the Sharadin Art Studio, one of the latest buildings. Complete with classroom, gallery, and craft rooms, the Studio is home to approxi- mately one-third of Kutztown's students. This is a PART of Kutztown. But is this really Kutztown? Where is the student? the teacher? Come again to Old Main. See the pulsing crowd, the humming corridor, the post office rush, the bulletin board enthusiast. Wait for the quiet that follows the changing of classes; sej the latecomer, the newcomer. Follow that stack of books to her habitat, the library. Look over the shoulder of the Britannica bug, follow the librarian into the browsing room. Look out the window at the moving throng of assembly-goers. Climb the gymnasium steps; see a gym class in operation or basketball practice. From where you stand on the gymnasium's topmost step, let your eyes follow the weary art student as he slowly weaves his way across the campus to the art studio, stopping only to shift from one arm to another his belated art project. See the frenzied mob en route to report examination conflicts, the student who manages to endanger life and limb crossing Route 222 in his effort to check one last date in his voluminous notes. Note the havoc of sleepless nights in the eyes of so many pale faces. Follow the students into the Georgian dining room where they assemble for the leisure dinner hour, take part in the saying of grace, come out into the blue room for dancing. Hear the public address system blasting, the tittering of girls as they wait for the big moment—a dance or an eve- ning performance. March out into the night at the fire drill signal. Climb again the stairs to second or third or fourth hall. And at the eleventh stroke of the tower clock, experience lights out. THIS, THEN. IS KUTZTOWN.

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rHE STAFF of the 1950 KEYSTONIA wishes to dedicate this edition of the yearbook to the students of our college. We feel that the student body IS the college and on it depends, to a very large measure, whatever success the college enjoys. Without students who aspire for success scholastically, athletically, and socially, our college could not maintain its enviable reputation among the teachers colleges of our State. Without students who have high ideals of conduct, loyalty, and co- operation, our college could not have realized so worthy a past or could not face so promising a future. If this loyalty and co-operation, these high ideals of scholarship and conduct are carried over into the teaching profession, we can look with con- fidence to the future of education and citizenship in our great Commonwealth. It is with a feeling of pride and satisfaction, therefore, that we dedicate the 1950 KEYSTONIA to the student body. .....our dedication