Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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%3SCSf = W E Future scientists trod these IKirluls to achieve greater heights in. their field. It is ill this labnratori) thai stitilenls are fniind daili per- forming all types of experi- ments.

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of THE CLASSROOM ... its hundred gates opened for us ... by our guides . . . the faculty. English Lit . . . bringing its riches of a hundred centuries . . . Chaucer . . . Milton . . . the majesty of the Avon bard. History . . . parading before us . . . in all the glory ... of sceptre and ermine ... in all the dishonor of war . . . and intrigue. Art I ... II ... Ill ... IV and Music with balance and sequence and scales . . . Lab exercises . . . explosions . . . H S. . . Geo- graphy courses in which we attempted ... to dissect the world . . . Hours in the library . . . searching . . . reading . . . writing . . . whispering. The classroom ... its familiar routine bounded by bells ... its scholarly atmosphere drawing forth . . . the best in us . . . setting us on a common plane ... of friendship . . . and scholarship . . . directing us to a common goal ... of achievement.

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INTRODUCE THE FACULTY DR. G. C. L RIEMER President Greetings: If I were again to choose my life ' s work, I would again choose to be a teacher. No profession transcends in developing power that of the teacher. That is why the work of the teacher has grown in the esteem of the public during the last half century and is gaining in prestige from year to j ear. Its responsibilities have become greater and more exacting. Instead of only a few months a year the pupil spends nine or more months a year under the teacher ' s care; instead of only three or four grades the public school system now consists of twelve or more grades. Its personnel, numbering close to one million teachers, embraces now a finer, better educated, more dynamic type of man and woman than ever before. Teaching service is an important agency for human betterment. None other is more powerful. Bjr precept and example it in- fluences the individual, community, state, and nation. Our Commonwealth considers it im- portant enough to make it free and compul- sory. It is essential to the continuance of its democratic way of life. Lack of knowledge and skill would weaken the earning power of each individual, make him less able to con- tribute to the general welfare of his fellows, and lessen his chances for the enjoj ment of life. Teachers have alwaj-s been the torch- bearers of the human race. It is through them that our cultural and intellectual heritage is handed on from generation to generation. However, teachers do more than that. They enable oncoming generations to improve and increase what they have received. The teacher occupies the strategic position of inspiring, stimulating, and encouraging growing boys and girls. Who cannot recall how some teacher fired his ambition, influenc- ed his way of living, inclined him toward the right rather than the wrong, pointed out possibilities of all-round development, set goals worth} of attainment? Yes, if I were again to choose m. life ' s work, I would again choose to be a teacher.