Kutztown University - Keystonia Yearbook (Kutztown, PA)

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THE DEANS HARVEY PUTNAM PRENTISS B.A., Amherst College M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University MARY EDNA RICKENBACH 8.S., M.A.. Columbia University CLYDE FRANCIS LYTLE A.B., College of William and Mary A.M., Middlcbury College Ed.D., New York University At the head of our college life are the persons who are responsible for the supervision of the large body of students, and who provide counsel during the student’s college years. It is the deans who regulate life in the dormitories, who see that the social and cultural atmosphere befitting an institution of higher learning is maintained and encouraged. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF It is the duty of the administrative officers to attend to maintenance, to enforce regulations, and to supervise the working of the college as a whole. Through their efforts. Kutztown State Teachers College is managed and directed. ELMER DAVID BAVER Bursar 12

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Our Message to the class of 1949 T ITS best, democracy is the noblest of the forms V of government because it demands of its citizens the greatest nobility and the greatest intelligence. But at its worst, as Plato told men long ago, it can lead to the worst form of all, a tyranny. Its members are tempted to sacrifice an ultimate good to an immediate gain. This tendency has always been the great peril of democracies. Furthermore, the base are often jealous of merit and resent the excellence and success of their superiors. It is alleged that such jealousies and prejudices will decide the fate of democracy in the next generation. In the combat against cor- ruption, the protagonist, the David, is the small figure of the teacher. The teacher is confronted by two fallacies which may be dangerous, both of them derived from the heresiarch, Rous- seau. One of these is the fallacy of equality, and the other the belief that all learning must be easy and pleasant. Men are not created equal intellectually. When we speak of equality in a democracy, we mean equality before the law; in the rights of speech, of worship, of the press, of the franchise, and of the pursuit of a vocation. In our schools and colleges some educators have been seduced by the theory that learners must be protected from the knowl- edge that one is inferior to another in ability. Sometimes teachers arc warned by officious parents that marking one learner lower than another marks an individual for life. As students you have learned through theory, and as practice teachers you have observed at first hand the long array of differences which exist in individual learners. These differences in ability produce differences in achieve- ment in school and in the vocation one enters after school days are over. As teachers you will achieve greatness in the degree to which you can recognize differences of ability among your students and help each learner to achieve according to his talents. It would seem that we were false to learners morally in their preparation for life if we led them to think that all things must be pleasant. The results of this fallacy permeate a significant sector of American life. The tragic record of marriages is one example. In the movies, in popular fiction, on the radio, and elsewhere young people are led to believe that married life must be one long honeymoon. They have limited opportunities to sense the difficult adjustments that must be made by two personalities living together and facing all the emo- tional and economic strains of family life. When their gilded dreams have given way to daily existence, they run away through divorce just as they ran away from disagreeable tasks at school. Situations in school which require study are often unpopular. Thus, one hears of proposals to make Shake- speare easy by translating him into basic English. By some, Milton is considered too obscure. Reading the Arcopagi- tiea, the first defense of freedom of the press, is regarded as too much of a strain. Indeed, one is sorely tempted to advise you that you remind your learners often of the old familiar lines— The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight but they while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night. In fact, let all of us as teachers emphasize: (1) that pleasure can come from achievement within one's reach. (2) that worthy achievement must stem from initiative and integrity, and 3) that moral character and fidelity to one’s church arc to be preferred to hedonism. Let these emphases be the contribution of the teachers of America to democracy. The Faculty congratulates you upon your graduation into a noble profession. Your Alma Mater, like a parent, invites you to return often and cross her threshold to share with her your triumphs and your cares. QUINCY A. W. ROHRBACH, '12. President I)

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LUCILLE WELSH BECK Dietitian B.S., Institution Management, Columbia University ANNA CATHERINE HRESKO Resident Nurse R.N., (Pennsylvania) ANNA ESTELLE REDDIC Housekeeper OFFICE PERSONNEL Behind the scenes at Kutztown is the staff responsible for the business workings of the college. It is the office personnel who sort, file, and make available the varied student records. MRS. ELIZABETH S. BARD Stenographer-Clerk, Personnel MARJORIE E. FAUST Stenographer-Clerk to Business Manager RUTH M. SHANKWEILER Account Clerk to Business Man- ager MRS. SARAH R. KEIM Stenographer-Clerk to Dean of Instruction LILLIAN R. DORNMOYER Stenographer-Clerk to Dean of Instruction MRS. JOAN R. HARRIS Stenographer-Clerk to Dean of Instruction MRS. GERTRUDE B. ANGSTADT Clerk, Student Cooperative Store MRS. ARLENE OSWALD Clerk, Student Cooperative Store MRS. DOROTHY E. GRIM Stenographer-Secretary to Pres- ident PEARL H. CHRISTMAN Stenographer-Clerk to the Di- rector of Laboratory Schools MRS. MARGARET EPP Stenographer-Clerk, Personnel MRS. MARY E. FARRELL Stenographer-Clerk, Personnel 13