Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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To tub Class or 1961: Swiftly the four years of your college program have passed into history. During this time your growth, development, and maturation have had their most favorable opportunity and climate to mold you into a professional person. To Ik sure the process is as yet incomplete because you are now started on an endless road of learning and study. Millersville will he proud of you if the foundation for your future has been well laid and if in your imagination you have caught the vision of the teacher you hope to become. May I offer just one suggestion for your consideration as you contemplate your future It seems to me that the great teachers of the past have had one trait in common. they didn’t spare themselves but gave themselves freely and willingly for the enlightenment and welfare of their pupils. If you want to become a successful teacher, I urge you to prepare yourself well and then locus your of orts upon your pupils with no more thought for yourself than to iK'comc more anti more learned and proficient as a teacher. M very best wishes to all of you and I give my pledge to Ik willing to aSNjs, jn vOUf profession as a teacher. A. G. BltElDENSTtNB, Dean of Instruction 19

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To THE 1961 C'.HADUATES: Much is being s;iicl these days about the world's crucial need for educated men. No thinking person could dispute the truth of the assertion if education is considered in its complete sense. To be truly educated implies a great deal more than mere academic proficiency, important as this unquestionably is. One would have a right to l c skeptical of a man who was highlv proficient in a language or in physics or in political science or in educational theory and practice but who demonstrated by his words and deeds that he regarded his intellectual capital as a tool for the satisfaction of selfish ambitions and for the advancement of his own personal interests. When men employ their trained genius to extract from life and from tneir fellows the pound of flesh which they have cleverly maneuvered into their sights, the value of this sujx-rfici.il kind of education may very appropriately be seriously questioned. It is out hope that the college has been successful in helping its graduates discern clearly the true pur|M)$e and meaning of an education—an education of the heart and the hand as well as of the intellect. You will teach and consequently your own jx-rsonal convictions as to what constitutes genuine education and the | urposes which it must serve will affect all whom you teach. Because of this you can be one of those jiersons who, by their work and character, will help extricate the world from the jx-ri-lous predicament in which it finds itself. With every good wish for your jx-rsonal happiness and professional success, I remain Very sincerely vours, V I). I . lllEMESDERFER, President 18

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DR. JAMES W. BECKER Director of Elementary Education DR WILLIAM II. DUNCAN Director of Admissions DR. BURT I DUNMIRE Director of Secondary Education DR. VALBORG ELE'ITY Dean of Women MR. CHARLES I. KEN I Director of Student Personnel and Guidance DR. RAYMOND Kill IE Director of Student Teaching and Placement Guiding Lights in Millersville Life DR. DAU.N W. NESB1T Asst. to Dam of I nit ruction DR. EUGENE K. ROBB Director of Graduate Studies DR. Cl YDE S. STINT • Dean of Men