Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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 DR. LANDIS TANGF.R President, Millcrsiillc State Teachers College ‘President’s Message THE record of life histories and characteristics of the members of the Class, as well as events in which groups of Class members have participated during their college career, makes The Touchstone a volume of interesting memories. Commendation is due the Stall for the choice and arrangement of the material. This experience in cooperative endeavor has great value as a means of personal development. The immediate and present value of The Touchstone to each one of you is the satisfaction of possessing a record of life while in college. In after years these pages will reflect your Alma Mater in perspective, and will call forth memories which have the richness of rare old wine. Landis Tangek. Page Seven

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TO OUR State Teachers College seniors there comes, this year, a challenge greater than that to any other class. Society needs better schools and more competent teachers than ever before. Yours is the high call to justify to society, by the high character of your professional services, the preeminent place which we believe education should occupy in the plans and policies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. James N. Rule. Pape Six

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HISTORY OF MILLERSVILLE TVVH a genuine pride in her past accomplishments and a merited satisfaction in her progress, Millersville proudly claims the distinctive honor of being the lirst Normal School of the state. So successfully did James P. Wickersham conduct an institute of Lancaster County teachers at the new Millerstown Academy in 1885 that his original idea of an annual meeting was supplanted by the establishment of a county teaching-training school. The administration and control of this school was later assumed by the state, in accordance with the Normal School Act of 1859. Blazing a trail for others, the school has continued to grow. To the original building—the present boys’ dormitory—have been added, in order: the girls’ dormitory, the administration building, the gymnasium, library, science building, and the president’s home. In 1925 29 the campus was enlarged to its present size by the addition of several bordering farms. The scholastic improvement of the Normal School was acknowledged by the State Council of Education in 192 when it converted the institution into a State Teachers College and authorized it to confer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education upon students who have completed the prescribed course. Thus has Millersville been a pioneer in teaching-training activity. Page Eight