California University of Pennsylvania - Monocal Yearbook (California, PA)

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Dr. Robert M. Steele, President As president of our college, Dr. Robert M. Steele has directed California towards higher scholastic standing and developed new programs and new services, progressing especially in the branches of Industrial Arts and Special Education. His personal and helpful interest in each of us has earned him the respect and admiration of the entire student body. Since 1946, as the State Coordinator of Pennsylvania Area College Centers, he has been personally responsible for much of the legislation pertaining to the college expansion program which has made a place for every veteran and high school student qualified and willing to attend college. The program which he has directed has been able to accommodate more than one hundred forty- seven thousand college students as compared with the pre-war enrollment of sixty thousand. Concerning this system, former Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania said, The Penn- sylvania plan is the simplest and most effective in the nation. The responsibility which the state has placed upon him has indeed been well fulfilled. His work, his free spent energies, and his quiet modesty have been recognized by those who know him we . 10

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College Board of Trustees HARRY E. PRICE, Chairman . . . ' . . . ..... Charleroi BEN G. BINNS, Vice Chairman . . . . Monongahela CHARLES A. GALLAGHER . . . . . California D. C. LONGANECKER . . . . . Waynesburg MRS. FRANK M. ROBB . . . . Latrobe JACOB B. SCHROCK . . . . .Berlin S. RAY SHELBY ..,..... Uniontown MRS. MARGARET B. THOMPSON Washington ROBERTAWILLIAMS ...... Fa yettek City

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THE PRESlDENT'S MESSAGE B J Q M c ALPH WALDO EMEHSON asked this question nearly one-hundred and twenty years ago, If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution, when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared, when the energies of all men are searched by fear and hope, when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. You are living in an age of revolution. On you will be placed a heavier responsibility than is yet common to all men and women. This is because you will have had opportunity to gain a college education. It will place you among the privileged and to whom much is given, much will be required. As educated persons, your obligation to America will be to make America the arsenal of the values of democracy. It will be your obliga- tion to your day to live what you have learned. Education, like democ- racy, is never fully attained. Both are processes of becoming. Neither may stop. And education must contribute much to democracy. This is your task. ROBERT M. STEELE 1 1