Black Hills State University - Eoicha Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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£j inu siiass oi a©a® Margaret Moscley President Florence augh n I ice President Wava Byrnes Set retary- Tr a sure: MOTTO: Not luck, I 1 1 1 pluck. COLORS: Yellow and ' hit YELL 1—9—1—6 1 ' .» 1—6 1— !)— 1— 6 Seniors! II. Yellow l{c TO W1H »M IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that the present Senior Class of the Spearfish State Normal School will he graduated on June 7. 1916, and will then receive the highest diploma of the school, and a lif ' a provisional life cer- tificate to teach. This teachers 1 certificate is accredited in many states, as California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona. In South Dakota It iii- titles one to leach In all grades and in all kinds of schools. This Normal School, like all first class schools, steadily and con- tinually improves. It is better this year than ever before in its history. It almost necessarily follows from this that the ( ' lass of 1916 is the best in the history of the school. It should be the best one, and it is the les- timonv of the faculty that it is the best one. An unusually largV pet- cent of the class love their chosen work and believe it to he the greatest work in the world. They have fine ability, high character, untiring devotion, unfailing common sense, and highly pleasing personalities. Not one of the members has taught less than an hour daily for a year and a half under careful supervision in the Training School. This is more, much more, than the equivalent of three years of full time teaching without such supervision. All boards of education should so consider it . and should be anxious to give the best members of t he class, those whose success the faculty can guarantee, any positions at their command. There is not a city in South Dakota hut could make sub- stantial improvement in its faculty by taking such a course. The ideal plan when teachers are to be sought is for the hoard of education to send its superintendent of schools to I he Spearfish Normal School to observe the work of Seniors and have personal interviews with them, for the purpose of aiding in determining w hich ones would make valuable ad- ditions to their facult ies. I n view of l In foregoing facts I strongly recommend I he ( ' las of l!i I li for any positions they may seek. They arc modest, and after all the years of arduous training and severe criticism to which they have been subjected in I heir long course oi at least siv years above the eighth grade, the have a ins! conception of (heir own worth. I ours very I ml} . I ' ' . I,. Cook. Presidcn I .