Lyndon State College - Northern Lights Yearbook (Lyndonville, VT)

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To the Class of 1959: Graduation time usually abounds with flowery phrases and beautiful words of hope and promise. Perhaps this is as it should be. but also we are at a time when you. our grad- uating seniors, must face life front on. You are about to enter the teaching profession. Yours will be a task fraught with frustration, heartache, and despair. The compensations will be few and long in coming. Only if you can absorb and accept these discouragements and arrive at the honest realization that success or failure of our future is in your hands--only then will you be able to say. I am a teacher! I wish you good fortune and my hopes go with you. Sincerely, Walter J. Mars Dean of Instruction To the Class of 1959: One of the essentials of being a teacher which some- times is overlooked is the fact that he is a person offering a service to the students of the school and to the community in which he lives. This service well performed can mean much. It means that the school is provided, not for the convenience of the teacher, but rather because the students need the service. It means that the teacher is effective only when real learning and real development actually take place. Indications of this real learning is evident in the changed behavior and attitudes of the children as they develop into independent and responsible individuals. Let us. as teachers, keep this in mind in planning our services and in evaluating our effectiveness. Sincerely, 13 Susan Gallagher Dean of Women

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♦ ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Briar Mr. Halliday Not shown LIBRARIAN Mrs. Jar dine FORD FOUNDATION Mr. Wentzell Not shown 12

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♦ft 'P'ie tde tt ' TTte teiye To the Members of the Class of 1959: What a challenge it is to be asked to comment on the theme you have chosen for your yearbook! It is characteristic of you as a class and as individuals that you should ambitiously raise the question, What is a teacher? In the broadest sense, everyone shares in teaching either for good or ill. I am sure you mean more titan this. In another sense, anyone who instructs in a school is a teacher. But there are teachers and teachers and I know you will not readily accept so simple a definition. In the fir il analysis I feel sure you will define teacher in terms of values. Christ was the great teacher though he never stood at a blackboard. Milton was a teacher when he wrote Areopagitica. Lincoln was a teacher as he composed the Gettysburg Address. Somehow teaching is synonymous with greatness. It is our hope at L.T.C. that we have enough of the element of greatness so that each of you will have been assisted in building a sound scale of values. We hope that you will have acquired a sufficiently solid background of knowledge and professional skill so that sometime you will say: I am a teacher. The world is a better place because I am. 14 Arthur B. Elliott