Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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TH[ DEANS RAYMOND M. COOK. This is the tenth issue of EMBLEM for which I am writing some message as dean of the College. I find that inspiration falters for an entirely new approach. So I return to a well-worn theme, my intense pride in the faculty, the students, and the graduates of Chicago Teachers College Today I am proud because of the high MORALE of the school. And on what does high morale depend? It depends on our belief in our task, in the feeling that teacher education is worthy of our energies. We have that. It depends on agreement on our goals, and the clear definition of those goals. We are achieving that. It depends on our confidence in our own ability to reach these goals. We have that. It depends on our confidence in our colleagues, in their performance of their part of the task. We have that. It depends on a sense of achievement in one ' s work; on recognition by others that one ' s work has been well done; on a sense of growth, a feeling that one is more competent today than he was yesterday; and on a feeling of belonging, of membership in a valued group. No school can lay claim to being great, or excellent, or even good, unless it has high morale. For the splendid contribution the class of 1957 has made to high morale in the Chicago Teachers College, I am grateful. I congratulate this class, and I predict great things for it. 6 CC C ' ' i ' -Oy ' . , a .