Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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I 9 3 I t ii k r o i ciis r o n k • • • • TOUCHSTONE STAFF Faculty Adviser—Burl N. Osburn Editor-in-Chief—Roy ll. Brenneman Business Manager—Harold B. Rohn Assistant Editor—Katharyn Buckwalter Associate Editors—Ralph Yohe, Harold Zarfoss Faculty Editor—Ruth Shoemaker Picture Editor—Esther Collins Senior Editors — Naomi Hess, Lester Slothower Organization Editor — Wilmer Lucken- baugh Athletic Editors—Wilbur Landis, Leon Dissinger, Robert Lucey Feature Editor—Ruth Fox Artists—Edythe Morris, Florence Huber Assistant Business Managers — Wanda Kalencki, Burton Stein Junior Representatives — Paul Oilier, Robert Weber Sophomore Representative — Edith Rohrer Frcehinan Representative—Robert Me- Comsey Eleven

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r m r. t o r : n s r n n k 19 3 1 • • • • Dorothy Beyer Bartville, Pa. TABLE OF CONTENTS Copyright Dedication Touchstone Staff Editor's Introduction A Century of Public Education in Pennsylvania A Review of Millersville's First Eighty Years March of Progress during 1933-’31 Board of Trustees Faculty Senior Class History Junior Class History Sophomore Class History Freshman Class History Senior Extra Curricular Activities Junior Class Roll Sophomore Class Roll Freshman Class Roll The Thirteenth Chair Page Literary Society Normal Literary Society Band Choir Orchestra Girls’ Glee Club Men’s Glee Club X X X yl a X a X X X X X X X X x A % Christmas Musical Commuting Women’s Association Men’s Day-Student Association Women’s Community Association Men’s Community Association Commission Y. W. C. A. Y. M. C. A. The Snapper Citamard Players Rural Club Primary Club Library Science Club Industrial Arts Society Roddy Scientific Society Zola R. Bouers Lancaster, Pa. English Club Travel Club Book Club Vigilance Committee Football Basketball Baseball Tennis Varsity Club May Day Senior Ball Class Day List of Advertisers Ten

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THE T o I : II S T o N K I 9 :i i • • • • A CENTURY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA By Ralph Yoke ON this on© hundredth anniversary year of free public school education in Pennsylvania, it is liltiri” that we devote these pages to a review of the progress made by education during the past century. It is our purpose here to present the highlights of the history of education from its beginnings to the present. The law creating free schools was passed in 1834, but the seeds from which it grew were sown throughout the province almost two centuries before. Since the most numerous early settlers of this state were the Swedes, Dutch. German, and Quakers, it is necessary that we know the attitude taken toward education by the first residents. In the early part of the seventeenth century the Swedes were reported to he better versed in the elements of knowledge than any other European country. Holland was the first nation of Europe to establish a system of public schools similar to the schools now known by that name. These four groups of people Roy Brenneman MilUrtrille, Pa. y7 M) -N curried their interest in education to the frontiers of Pennsylvania without knowing that they were luying the foundations of a great system of public instruction in a great commonwealth. When the Second Assembly of the Colony met at Philadelphia on March 10, 1683 the following ideals were expressed in part: “And to the end that poor as well as rich may he instructed in good and commendable learning, which is to he preferred before wealth. Be it enacted, That all persons in this Province and Territories thereof, having children, and all the guardians and trustees of orphans, shall cuuse such to lie instructed in reading and writing, so that they may be able to read the Scriptures and to write bv the time they attain to twelve years of age; and that then they he taught some useful trade or skill; that the poor may work to live. And in case «uch parents, guardians, or overseers shall he found deficient in this respect, every such parent or guardian shall pay for each child, five pounds except there should appear an incapacity in body or understanding to hinder it. This was one of the most significant laws ever passed in the state, and paved the way toward the building of our great educational structure. Although the differences in language and religion prevented the full realization of these ideals the parents provided such education for their children as they found most convenient. As might lie expected, early progress was slow since the hardships of pioneer life had to he met and religious preju- William L. Rrumhach Bethel, Pa. Twelve