Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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David Allen Anderson, A. B., SI. A., Ph. D. President Page twenty

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THE NEW TRAINING SCHOOL During the winter of 1925 the Genei ' al Assembly of Ohio appropriated Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars for a teacher-training building for Kent State Normal College. By resolution of the Board of Trustees of the College, the building ' was named The William A. Cluff Teacher-Training Building. This action was taken partly in consequence of Mr. Cluff ' s help in presenting to the Legislature the needs of the College and partly because of his genuine friendliness for the Training School. The new building will probably be finished some time during the month of May and will be ready for occupancy in time for the summer quarter which opens June 20, 1927. It will house all of the departments of the training school, viz. the kinder- garten, the elementary school, the junior high school, and the senior high school. The building is 275 feet long and 65 feet wide except in the central section which is wider. In addition to the basement or ground floor, there are two other complete floors and a third one over the central part of the building. Most of the ground floor is higher than the grade line next to the building. On the ground floor will be found the kindergarten rooms, the home economics department, the manual arts, locker rooms, showers and store rooms. The floor of the small gymnasium extends several feet below the ground floor level and thus aff ' ords sufficient height for basket-ball. The first floor proper has the assembly room, one college recitation room, the offices, and class rooms to accommodate the entire elementary school. The next floor will be given over to the junior and senior high schools with the junior high school on the south end and the senior high school on the north. The senior high school study room is in the central part of the building. Special music and art rooms are on this floor in the extreme north end. The top floor over the central part of the building has rooms for physics, chemistry, and biology. In the elementary and junior high school department each critic teacher is to have two rooms so that if necessary she may divide her grade and supervise the work of two student-teachers at the same time. Page nineteen

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OUR GRADUATES AS TEACHERS We Americans believe in education. Our faith in it is unquestioning. We be- lieve in schools. We believe in schools because we regard them as the strongest safe- guard of society, as the best means of developing individual personality, as the surest way of enlightening the entire human race; and we are certain that in them are laid the soundest foundations for national stability. The prime factor contributing to the effectiveness of these schools is the teacher. It is generally agreed that the teacher constitutes the heart and soul of the school. To supply schools with adequately trained teachers is looked upon by many as the largest field of professional service in America. Teachers colleges have been developed as specialized institutions for the express purpose of training teachers. Kent State College is classed among the worthy mem- bers of this group of professional schools. It has been and it continues to be the aim at Kent to maintain a faculty which shall be the life giver — the soul of the institution. This group of teachers must transmit to the teachers-to-be the ideals, knowledge and skills which they in turn will use in directing the children and adolescents to a realiza- tion of their greatest possibilities. Kent State recognizes in the candidates for graduation in the classes of 1927 many of the native and acquired qualities that make for success. Among these qualities your Alma Mater prizes especially worthy character which gives security in every walk of life; scholarship or wealth of knowledge which is the first essential in teaching; faith in education, in young life, in humanity, and in the teaching pro- fession; vision that looks beyond the day ' s routine into the inclusive life of society; fine idealism; and self-control. These are the qualities that have enabl ed Kent ' s alumni to achieve success and to gain recognition among the leaders in their chosen field. These same qualities will enable the graduates of succeeding years to become noble men and women — teachers capable of transforming American youth into a better citizenship. David Allen Anderson Page tiventy-one