East Texas State University - Locust Yearbook (Commerce, TX)

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BOARD OF REGENTS HON. A. B. MAYHEW, President ....... HON. HENRY S. PAULUS, Vice-President HON. JOHN E. HILL ....... ........... HON. THOMAS H. BALL. . HON. H. L. KOKERNOT .... HON. E. JOSEY. ..... .. HON. WARD TEMPLEMAN .... DR.J. G. ULMER.. . . .Umlde .Yonknin Amarillo .Hoiuton . .Alpine .Houston Niwnsoto .........Tyler MRS. K. BARETA ....................... .Yon Antonio HON. H. A. TURNER, Secretary to Board. . 4 . .... Austin

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO THE SENIOR CLASS SENIOR CLAss: There are two things dear to the hearts of the citizens of the United States. These fundamental principles are: First, love of liberty. Second, the desire to own things in fee simple for their own use and pleasure. The United States of America was established by the Pilgrim Fathers, who were in search of a country where they could enjoy the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity. They were looking for a land where they could have freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of action, and freedom in worshipping God according to the dictates of their own conscience. It was their desire to find a land where men would not be imprisoned for debts, where men would not be perse- cuted if they said and printed what they thought, and where it was not high treason for a man to worship God under his own vine and fig tree. So pronounced was this desire on the part of those who founded this country, that the United States is today known throughout the world as the land of the free and the home of the brave. The founders of the United States were no less interested in freedom than they were in matters of allowing each individual to own property and to be able to pass it on to posterity. It was their desire to found a country where people could own their own homes, possess their own conveniences, recognizing only the right of the government to give them protection and to make secure their pos- sessions and to prevent anyone from trespassing upon title or human rights. They wanted to render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, but they wanted also to be permitted to work out their own salvation. How dear these ideals are to the hearts of the American people can be realized fully only by those who see the deprivation of these rights in other lands. The East Texas State Teachers College was established for the purpose of training teachers for the public schools of Texas and the nation. Its graduates have been grounded in the fundamentals of American history and American thinking, They will preserve these ideals in the public schools of the state and the nation, They appreciate the sacrifices made by the founders of this republic, and they likewise appreciate the ideals which have been handed down in American history and tradition. The graduating class of this year has no higher mission in life than the preservation of the ideals for which the United States of America were established. As President of this institution, I am happy in the realization of the fact that the graduates of the East Texas State Teachers are fundamentally right in their thinking. Sinrereb, SAM H. WHITLEY, Prerident.