Kutztown University - Keystonia Yearbook (Kutztown, PA)

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The Alumni Association wishes each and every member of the Class of I951 all the icy anyone could wish and commends you for developing the theme, The Making of a Teacher, for the yearbook. If I were a boy again, I would want you, my teacher, to put the weight of responsi- bility upon me, to make me feel that I was not a stick or a stone-eenot a lump of clay or putty, but a human being with a soul; and that what I was to be I was now in the process of becoming. I would want you, my teacher, to be conditioned and prepared for engaging in the greatest enterprise on earth-the build- ing of manhood and womanhood. I would want you to know the purposes of life and of education. I would want you to under- stand the units of the school system as a whole, the fundamental purposes of each part, and the knowledge of how to perform your function in the school system. I would want you to transmit, unobtrusively, your purposes to become my purposes so that I could proceed IIfull steam ahead . I would want you to regard me as a diamond in the rough with education as the polishing agent in producing the most valuable prod- uct in the worldehuman conduct. I would want you to have faith in people, believing that human beings are modifi- able and improvable so that you would have and maintain an unembittered out- look on life. I would want you to encour- FROM THE ALUMNI W Wizye ASSOC I AT I ON age me by placing glorious, attainable pos- sibilities before me. I would want you to believe in and convey the idea to me that there is more good than evil in the world. I would want you to teach me that cour- age and hope are two mainstays in the iourney of any happy and successful life. I would want you to create the atmosphere in which I, as a pupil, could catch the spirit of you, as a consecrated teacher. I would want you to promote creative thinking, and develop a sensitivity for honesty and truth. I would want you to teach me that this era is a birthday in man's struggle to be free, happy, and at peace, and that to achieve it I could be gently serviceabIe-helping with- out hurting. I would want you, my teacher, to have me realize that I was accepting the cultural heritage from you, with the re- sponsibility of transmitting it not only un- impaired but enriched by my own contribu- tions. I would want you to teach me to give mankind my friendship, my interest and my faithful service; to pass the golden trust and the golden hope of youth to me so that I might make my life avrich service to my fellowmen, my country, and my God. In the name of the Association, I wish you Godspeed and abundant success as teachers. Sincerely, Charles F. Seidel, President The Alumni Association. E Y S 12 O N

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WW from our president The theme of this volume, The Making of a Teacher, has large implications. A war- conscious world has emerged during the period which you spent in preparing your- selves to be teachers. The world of affairs is clearly changing more rapidly in our day than ever before and the course of events always develops in novel fashion. Some things we can, to be sure, in reason foretell: seasons will recur; children will be born, grow up, live out their time, and die; people must eat; institutions of some kind will survive; people will continue to read, argue, and act. But who can foretell what significant events will happen? Who can foresee what Europe, Asia, or the United States will be like ten years from now? Naturally we hope that in becoming teachers you may realize that you must prepare children and youth to live amid conditions yet to come, amid conditions now unknown. You cannot teach your pupils the answers to their problems-you do not even know what their problems will be, let alone the answers. You have before you the intriguing task of getting your pupils ready to meet an unknown and for the most part an unpredictable future. We have during the past two centuries built and spread scientific and technologi- cal intelligence. Now, in humility, we ask --will the machines of destruction which we have invented annihilate man who made them? Now, we sense that theories, dogmas and ideologies form the bases of men's lives for which they struggle even to the utmost. We have come to realize that beliefs body forth the form of things to come; they bear the patterns of our be- havior; they determine the direction of our thrust into the unknown. Now, even as late as this date, we discover that we must hast- en to build social intelligence. These are the larger goals you will help your pupils to attain in a rapidly changing pattern of world affairs. The faculty shared with me the pleasure of observing and assisting your profes- sional growth in the making of a teacher. We wish for you every possible success in the profession and a respectable place on the roster of our Alma Mater. QUINCY A. W. ROHRBACH, '12 President May 1, 1951 A ' ' 11

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January sixth, 1951, the Moller Organ was dedicated to the memory of Dr. A. C. Rothermel, former president of Kutztown State Teachers College. Dr. Rothermel had been associated with this institution for a period of forty-seven years. Two dedicatory recitals by Alexander McCurdy, Mus.D. and Henry R. Casselberry, Ed.M. in the Schaeffer Auditorium made the long planned memorial a reality. With foresight on the part of Dr. Rohrbach, the auditorium had been planned with the ALEXANDER McCURDY, Mus.D. HENRY R. CASSELBERRY, Ed.M. DR. A. C. ROTHERMEL MEMORIAL ORGAN installation of an organ in mind. This saved considerable time and money at the pres- ent time. The organ is a four-manual in- strument with great, swell, choir, and solo features, together with a pedal board of thirty-two keys. There are 2679 speaking pipes and twenty-five chime bells. The Alumni Association and the Doc- tor A. C. Rothermel Memorial Fund Asso- ciation may well be thanked by the many teachers who will enjoy the music of this fine organ in the years to come. 13