Edinboro University - Tartan / Conneautteean Yearbook (Edinboro, PA)

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'AJ COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ,,. ,Ly DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Qwwgi svn: TEACHERS cones: is DINBORO PglNSYLVANIA ,-45 E 15, up ga' ,fp ,1-J - wx.: ? q -.3..-.-5141 , f 'EPP its-A 'QE-1-T13 - 1 as as iw, 119 3 To the Class of 11963: This year's graduates, who became a part of Edinboro four short years age, en- countered a campus consisting of considerably less dormitory space, fewer offices and classrooms, a limited library, and very few of the elementary school observation facilities and special education clinic resources that today's Edinboro makes possible. The student body in 11959 was under 1500, and the graduate program was in its infancy. Today there is a new library with a capacity of 100,000 volumes, a fully operative elementary campus observation school, a language laboratory, a special education clinic, the beginnings of the closed-circuit television facility, and a student body of 2,000 plus Knot including two off-campus centers at Sharon and dwarren, and a vigorously active graduate study programl. No student who has lived through this transition and observed it personally can be unmoved by its spectacular four-year fruition. But it is to Edinboro's great credit that these achievements are a mere beginning. Thirty-five million dollars worth of Laboratories, classrooms, offices and dormitories are under serious consideration, pre- parations and plans for upwards of six thousand students are being seriously formulated for the next few years of Edinboro's explosive epoch. If these facts concerning the college's physical growth--the observable, external picture-were the whole story, it would be an impressive document to exhibit. But there is more. A whole new dimension of growth, academic and curricular, has lately been in- serted into the picture, In 1960 the legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dropped the word Teachers from the names of its fourteen State Teachers Colleges, Edinboro included. what it meant to he named Edinboro State College as opposed to the time-honored Edinboro State Teachers College was not altogether clear at that time, but it sug- gested possibilities that excited one's imagination. Today those possibilities have assumed solid shapes that henceforth cannot fail to affect every student and staff member who is associated with the college. A new curri- culum designed to prepare students in the liberal Arts fields has been added to Edin- boro's historically successful teacher-education program. A recognition of the state colleges' responsibility to yo Pennsylvanians' liberal-cultural needs Cin addition to purely professional educatiggs is being urged upon the educational framework of the Commonwealth. Edinboro is a part of this new design and is being challenged to assume its full share of the tremendous new responsibility. Just what is going to happen, exactly, in the next few years at Edinboro cannot be accurately forecast by anyone viewing from the rapidly changing perspective of 1963. All of us who are a part of today's Edinboro can take satisfaction in what it has become since we joined it. More exciting, however, is the prospect of what it is going to become in the years immediately ahead. Students currently enrolled, freshmen in the process of enrolling, and graduates joining the ranks of the alumni, need to grasp the realization of this great potential. We are in what can well be an explosive epoch for Edinboro, and those who work in it as students, or faculty, or administration are ai very real part of that epoch. Sincerely, THOMAS R. MILLER, President PRE IDE ' SSAGE