Central Commercial Technical High School - Cog Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Charles I. Kiernan, A. E., B. S. In Charge of Student Relations Associate Engineer, Newark Technical School. Bachelor of Science, Rutgers University. Member of Faculty, of the Newark Technical School and the Newark College of Engineering since 1927.

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To the Class of 1937 All of you who graduate from the Newark Technical School will carry your education further. As long as you live you will learn, and he who lives most successfully learns the most. Some considerable number of you will come back to us to take more advanced work in your profession and you may wonder just why the re- quirements for this work are so high and why success in it seems difficult. You have been given in the time available to us the fundamentals of science and mathematics covered in the first two years of college work, and these furnish an absolutely necessary basis for further specialized professional work. The granting of a degree by us means that we must meet certain criteria concerning the content of our courses, their length, and the character of the men who give them. This is something externally imposed which we must meet. lf we do not, you will not receive proper recognition for your work: you will not be eligible for licensing in various states and territories, and you will find proper entrance into your professional society very difficult. Entrance requirements for work toward a degree entail therefore re- sponsibilities broader than the institution and of general application through- out the country. There is, however, our own point of view which you should understand quite thoroughly before taking up more advanced work. The costs in the college are paid partly by yourself and partly by the taxpayers, some of this comes from the City and some from the State. Our responsibilities then extend both to you as an individual student and to the taxpayers as a group. The work which you do here must be satisfactory from both points of view. You must personally be able to benefit by the work, and in order to benefit by it you must be capable of taking the work and passing it with a satisfactory standing. You have already been with us for four years, and on the basis of this experience we ought to be able to tell whether you can carry the work and whether it would be beneficial to you, and we certainly would not or could not suggest or recommend that you continue unless we knew that you were individually to profit by it. From the standpoint of the general taxpayer there must be some reason why he as an individual should pay for your education as an individual. That means that you must have ability and capacity for leadership which ability and capacity extend outside your profession and makes you interested and active in the affairs of the general community to which you belong. The public has a perfect right to insist that as they bear a part of the expense they have a right to receive a return and we who administer the work here have the responsibility of indicating to them and to you those of you who in our opinion it pays to educate. This amounts to saying that education at public expense or partially public expense entails a dual responsibility, and those of you who continue as well as those of you who graduate should realize that there is a definite responsibility on your part as well as a responsibility on our part to the community and to society. ALLAN R. CULLIMORE March l6, l937

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To The Senior Class Four vears ago when the Class of i937 came into being, the world was in the midst of a business and industrial catastrophe that was probably without parallel in all history. Our well-being, happiness and perhaps our very existence were threat- ened by the failure of our economic system. We had, in I933 and for several years before, seen banks close and shops and factories shut down, and industry in general in such a chaotic condition that there appeared to be no redemption. For several years we had witnessed the futile struggles of humanity to lift itself clear of the depression, in which we were merely individuals in a world apparently gone mad. For most of us, the cause of t-his sad condition was not the most important consideration. We simply knew that the situation existed, and we wanted to do all in our power to get out of it. Most of us gave intense thought to the manner in which we could best accomplish this object, and I am constrained to believe that far many of you in the Class of i937 the decision to come to Newark Technical School was the first definite step to overcome the disadvantages of the economic situation. ln your favor, of course, was youth with its never-failing courage. You had, in addition, an ambition born of adversity and it is of such that really great men are developed. About the same time most of you made your decision to enroll here, a ray of sunshine -had finally penetrated the industrial gloom. ln this way l believe you were favored. Certain definite signs indicated an upward trend in business shortly after you started your courses. During your second and third years here, this upward movement became decided, and during the present senior year there -has been absolutely no question. We are again on our wayl So, you men of l937, you are particularly fortunate that at a time when you are completing your work the demand for trained men, and particularly young trained men, is very great. I have no fear for your future. The past is behind you, while the days that are to come must be rosy and golden. Your success in the future is, in the main, based upon your own efforts. I have known all of you for the past four years. l don't believe l need say any more. Clo on and conquer-the world is before you! c. 1. KIERNAN