Kutztown University - Keystonia Yearbook (Kutztown, PA)

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MISS CLARA A. MYERS

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This book is dedicated to Miss Clara A. Myers, who recently retired after serving Kutztown State Teachers College for forty years, in the capacity of both dean of women and teacher. Miss Myers secured her education in the rural schools of Adams County and the academies at Bendersville and Gettysburg. After securing her provisional certifi- cate, she taught four years in the public schools, and then was elected assistant teacher at Keystone State Norma! School in 1901. She served as teacher, from 1903-1915, and was dean of women from 1915 to 1938, since which time she was connected with the geog- raphy department. She also attended Ursinus College and secured her Bachelor of Science degree at Gettysburg College. Her Master of Arts degree was received at Temple Univer- sity, and she took summer courses at the University of Virginia and Columbia University. Graduate work in geography was done at Clark University. Miss Myers is in great demand as a speaker because of her vast knowledge of geography, and was affiliated with many geographic, scholastic and religious organi- zations around Berks County. It is most fitting that we dedicate this yearbook to Miss Myers, for she is a true Pennsylvanian. 4

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I THINK, WITH YOU, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of a state much more so than riches or arihs, which, under the management of ignorance and wickedness, often draw on destruction, instead of providing for the safety of the people. And though the culture be- stowed on many should be successful only with a few, yet the influence of those few, and the service in their power, may be very great. Even a single woman, that was wise, by her wisdom saved the city. «. a I think, also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth than from the exhortation of adult persons, bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think, moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for the use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven; nothing more surely pointing out duty, in a public service, than ability and oppor- tunity of performing it. —Franklin iiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiHiiHiiaiiiiiiMiniiiiiiiminiliiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiniiniiiiiiiuiitiiiBiiminiiniiiuiiiiiiiiiiiuiiniiniiiMnHiiitiiiiiiiiMiiMiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiMiiiiliiinnimii 6