Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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ADMINISTRATION Perhaps it is only when the yearbook comes out that most of those connected with college life become aware of the machine-sound word, administration, and of its top po- sition at the helm. Certainly in any persons-filled college day there are many signs that boards of directors, presidents, and deans are in their places and are conducting, initiat- ing, controlling affairs. They are easily found, affably met, authoritatively courteous — often almost pathetically non- official. In everyday terms they do not run the show ; they are part of it; they try, so far as humanely possible, to make it a good show and to see that it produces solid, exemplary results. And it is not difficult to discern a special quality in their persons (thinking now of the college milieu), the quality of rectitude, which their positions of trust help to engender. When they sit in their places they are higher than their ordinary selves. College persons who have high place assume dedications which are literally awesome in character and scope. The tradition of learning must be keenly felt and actively pro- moted; the tradition of the college must be a guiding factor in shaping the future,- the tides and currents of contempo- rary life, of pressures, of dangers, of good chances, must require a constant alertness,- and always the sacred, high- est good of that human being, the student (in whose behalf the entire enterprise is maintained), must demand daily, sen- sitive, creative handling. Our college rejoices in having a vital, progressive leader- ship. Creativity and purpose mark the present launchings into the future. But it is not blind machinery that is on the go. It is imaginative, human-powered motivation toward the fulfillment of daily, on-the-spot needs as well as of the creation of a grand design for the years ahead.

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DR. ESTON K. FEASTER President Fairmont State College 16