American International College - Taper Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Merrill Blanchard, Superintendent of Building and Grounds Mrs. Margaret H. Eagan, Bookstore Manager Ruth Foss, Business Office Manager Mary A. Giorgi, Assistant Registrar Helene L. Ingham, Secretary to the Registrar Mrs. Ruth G. Overlook, Secretary to the Dean Mrs. Ann Vargo Sonski, Cafeteria Manager AIOHN F. HINES, JR. Rear Adm., U.S.N. CRet.j Assistant to the President Constance D. Wright, Placement Director Frank W. Soltys, Director of News Bureau RICHARD S. ULLERY ESTHFR D. FRARY MRS. MURIEL HENRIETTA Dean Registrar MITCHELL LITTLEFIELD Secretary to the President Director of Student Aetivz ties,' Professor of German BA., M.A., Wellesley College 6 1

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nature. Yesterday it may have been all right for people to spend their precious time learning how to live alone and like it, but today education must teach people how to live together and like it. This is the task education must set for itself in tomorrow's world. Educating people to live together must begin in teaching them to have faith in and respect for one another. Education in home, school, and church must combine in teaching many people to see that the important thing about any man is not his class, his race, his nationality, the shape of his head or the color of his skin, but that he is a person entitled to equal rights and opportunities. If democracy is to survive and commend itself to the world, a new generation of young people must be educated in the democratic religious concept that personality is equally valuable and essen- tially the same whatever its color, class, or race. The future of democracy depends upon how well education can succeed in teaching people to live togeher in mutual respect. Even as educating people to live together is basically a matter of teach- ing them to respect one another, so children cannot be conditioned in mutual respect apart from the teaching that every person, whatever his race, is the most priceless thing in the universe. Never can people be taught to practice the brotherhood of man unless they are convinced of the Father- hood of God. It was a recognition of this fact that caused the Philadelphia superintendent of schools to say, I am convinced that students are only half educated unless they are taught spiritual values. Education apart from religion cannot produce a people to whom cooperation, mutual aid, and mutual respect are second nature. Educating people to live together in tomorrow's world is essentially the task of making real the Fatherhood of God in the brotherhood of man. A world which science has made a neighborhood, education must now make a brotherhood. One of the paradoxes of our time is that as science and technology make the world smaller physically, education must produce bigger people psychologically, morally, and spiritually. As economics has made the world a physical neighborhood, education must teach people to be neighborly. An old lady expressed the thinking that has been too typical of our generation when she was asked her opinion of the United Nations. The United Nations is all right, she replied, except there are too many foreigners in it. The smaller the world becomes physically, the larger people have to become to live in it. Someone may rightfully ask, How can education achieve such a stupendous responsibility? The answer is that a new generation of young people can be taught anything we want them to become, the Fascists and Communists have taught us that. They have impressed upon the world that children can be molded into what we want them to become. Every child is a bundle of possibilities to be conditioned as we choose. A child is born without prejudice of race or of idea. A new-born baby is not yet a German, a japanese, a Russian, an American, Italian, Englishman, or Frenchman-not until we teach him he belongs to a particular race or nationality. He is born not with the particulars that divide us, but with the universals that unite us. Every child is a new piece of humanity who can be molded into a world citizen. Here is the seemingly impossible hurdle: We cannot teach children what we are not ourselves. If education fails to teach a new generation to live together cooperatively in mutual respect and sympathetic understand- ing, it will not be because young people cannot be taught, but because of us in homes, schools, and churches who are doing the teaching. We must be what we Want our young people to become. ffrom an editorial by Dr. john Homer Miller in the Yellow jacket of March 25, I949l

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WARREN AMERMAN Music Director B.S. State Teachers College of New jersey LYDIA M. BLAKESLEE German B.A., American International College HAROLD E. BOWIE Mathematics B.A., M.A., University of Maine ROBERT W. COBB Chemistry B.S., Rutgers University S.C.D., American Interna- tional College MILTON BIRNBAUM English B.A., City College of New York M.A., New York University CLINTON BOWEN Management B.S., M.B.A., American Inter- national College HENRY A. BUTOVA Director of Men's Athletics B.A., American International College ISADORE COHEN Biology B.S., M.S., Tufts College Ph.D., University of Pennsyl- vania