Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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In 1915 I was moved back to the Central High School building. Miss Greene remained as dean, but she gave over my active leadership to a president, Mr. Deputy. In 1919 Mr. Hotchkiss became my presi- dent and then in 1925, Mr. Diemer. Miss Greene, dearly beloved by all, remained with me until in 1935. Ill health caused her to give up her position and move to California. My, she was a great loss! but I had to go on. So much depends upon me, you know. Well, in 1956 Mr. Gilbert, one of my faculty, was appointed vice-president. My life has been short but eventful, don't you think? I was de'- lighted when they moved me to Woodland School. I felt really estab- lished and secure, you know. The past year has revealed a great improvement in my condition, even here. The new science rooms the school board gave me are just as complete as one could wish. And the social room! Now there is a room that does my heart good--I love the sound of the radio and the ping-pong balls as they are knocked back and forth. After all, I am still young and like arlittle pleasure now and then. ' Of course you know that, as I grew, clubs were formed and school papers published. With each event I glowed with pride because I knew that little by little my dream of becoming a successful college was being fulfilled. Yes, my dreams have come true. From a small one-year training school occupying several rooms, I have become a four-year college with many rooms. And I am still young, only twenty-five. What will I be at fifty? 5 E71

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AICITQBIQGRAPHY GF TEACHERS CGI .I .EGF Today I stand, a well-established growing college, loved and respected through all Kansas City. Each june large classes are upon my list of graduates, and each September new students surge through my doors. I am Teachers College. However, it was not always thus. Only twenty-five years ago fcould you believe itlj there was no training school in Kansas City for those who wished to become teachers. In those. dark ages the new teachers were sent to work under the supervision of Mis-s Gertrude Greene, principal of the Irving School, who, in spite of her many duties, gave them what aid she could. Then in the fall of, let me see, twenty-tive from thirty-six yes, in the fall of 1911, Mr. Cammack, who was Superintendent of Schools at thattime, thought it would be well to -establish a training school for teachers of Kansas City. He asked Miss- Greene if she would assume charge of a normal school with a one- year course. That was my beginning. In january of 1912 I was formally established in the old Central High School at Eleventh and Locust with Miss Greene as my dean. However, after one week there I was moved to the Franklin School building where I occupied several rooms. A very humble beginning, was it not? But one cannot be born famous, pardon me if I seem to take pride in my achievements, it is a most worthy pride, I assure you. The next fall I was moved to the George B. Longan School, where I remained for three years. IGI -

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--' V 5--f-rn PRESIDENTS MESSAGE A quarter of a century! A long time in the life of an individual, and yet, in the life of an institution only a brief span of time. Teachers College is still young in years and looking forward to unlimited years of growth and service in the future. In the history of the Kansas City school system, beginning in 1867, are many ' ' h' f Kansas resplendent chapters, but none that has meant more to the future citizens ip o City than the story of these twenty-live years of Teachers College. The College was h born out of the needs of boys and girls for better teachers. Its major purpose through t e years has been to fill that need. Every dollar that has been spent on its development ' ' ' h b nt from a one-year training school to a four-year degree granting college, as een spe for the purpose of helping Teachers College to serve better the children of Kansas City. No institution in Kansas City is dedicated to a higher purpose, and, when we consider the hundreds of capable, thoroughly prepared teachers who have gone into the schools of Kansas City from Teachers College, we believe it has achieved its purpose remarkably well. We celebrate, therefore, our silver anniversary. In doing so we are thinking in terms of the past only as the challenge to greater achievement in the future. During these twenty-five years Teachers College has served well, but it must serve better the more highly complicated program of education which we shall have during the next twenty- five years. We stand at the threshold of one of the greatest periods of educational development in the history of the nation. The school must more nearly meet the tremendously complicated social needs of the present and future. To do this the school must improve its program and facilities, and, it must have more highly qualified teachers than ever before. The teacher must not only have character, personality, and ability but must be broadly educated in all of the major fields of cultural experience, must have broad social understanding and experience, must have thorough professional knowledge, and must be fully prepared to use the very best techniques and methods that have been discovered through scientific research and experimentation. y Teachers College will continue in the future as in the past to seek out the finest and best young people to prepare for teaching, but, also it will continue to improve its curriculum, expand its program as the need arises, improve the quality of teaching on the part of its faculty, and accept continually the challenge of each day and year. Yes, we may look back over the quarter of a century of Teachers College history with pride. We believe the achievements of Teachers College justify such pride, but, as students and faculty and alumni, we must not rest on our laurels. We must have a vision of greater achievement and finer service for boys and girls! ISI ,,....f .aa- ' -., imiumf. '