Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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BBB geg . changed. We were impatient, straining at the reins of another year, eager for change. And as the first half of the senior year plays a prologue to the second, it went as quickly. A few months spent in methods course, the culmination of four years in the developing of an individual philosophy of education, practice-teaching assignments, and the semester was gone. Practice-Teaching. Each senior bid his classmates goodbye and went to try his fledgling wings at the real thing. It is difficult to say what each senior expe- riences as a practice-teacher. Each situation is different, and the student teacher must learn to cope with these many-faceted sides of secondary school life. The ten weeks of practice teaching stand out as the culmination of all four years of professional training. When the period of teaching was over the seniors returned to pick up the threads of per- sonal education again. Practicum became a sym- posium hour for the talking over of experiences, trials, and tribulations in the teacher ' s life. But time ran short towards the end of the years and the last week of frivolity and carefree fun was upon us: Senior Week. Each minute was cram- med with busy, all-absorbing social activity of Sen- ior Assembly, the President ' s Reception, and the Senior Banquet. If receiving our diplomas seemed an anti-climax, and if we were a little tired from the Formal Ball activities of the night before gradu- ation, don ' t judge us too harshly. The little white scrap of paper really meant a great deal to us. It was the symbol of all for which we had worked and studied. It was a record of one fifth of our lives. We could never treat it lightly. And so they are over. The college years. One hundred and thirty teachers are foisted on the world to give new vigor and new strength to the profes- sion. But the school does not stop with us — it goes on. The classrooms still ring with sturdy discussions, the professors lecture on, the labs are filled with students bent over microscopes. Ail year through, season after season, day after day, Montclair goes on — preparing the best all-round teachers a school can produce.

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CLARION, But wherever we found satisfaction for our social outlets we found something new to learn. And in spite of the fact that we had resolutely vowed never to become school-teachers, inside we knew that learning how to act or write or build would help to make us the better teachers we really wanted to become. By the end of the year we began to survey ourselves in a more objective light. We began to think seriously of the future and of ideals and the real Truth. Vacation is always welcome because it is a break in the long winter of routine; but we were anxious to get back, to get to work again. THE YEAR OF PREPARATION As juniors registration day has little novelty to it. Greeting friends and professors, quickly filling schedule cards, and it ' s over. With the junior year there came a certain poise, the ability to get things done — and quickly. True, we entered into the first week ' s fun, but juniors have become adults, and while we protected the freshmen when the path got too thorny it was with a certain patronizing smile. The junior year was the year of preparation. The major field no longer loomed all-import- ant. There was a minor and second minor. Interests became more diversified and less narrow. Back- ground and educational courses became important and worthwhile. As juniors we could see the rea- son behind Dr. Sperle ' s discussions on class routine and discipline. It was along about the middle of the junior year that the terrifying fear of being caught unprepared for practice-teaching came. There was a flurry of activity and busyness. College life became more and more complicated, and we were caught in a web of endless assignments and new responsiblities. At this stage in our training it had become fashionable to stoutly declare we would have none of the teaching profession. But under- neath the outward cynicism we felt an impatience and an eagerness to try our hand at it. The junior year flew. It was over so quickly we scarcely realized the time was spent cramming a thousand activities into every shallow twenty- four hours. But there we were, seniors, safely de- livered, after an exciting and world-staggering sum- mer. College and war had always been synonymous for us, but now we were in school and the war was over. The whole aspect of our social attitude • 28

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DORETTE LOUISE ABEND 323 Mountain Way, Rutherford, New Jersey Major: Science Minor: Science Dory . . . very blonde . . . spontaneous wit . . . dorm threesome . . . Boothia ' s assistant in charge of thermom- spent a year as a student nurse but reverted to . natural aptitude for biology . . . long, white eters teaching lab coat. Choral Speaking Club, 1 ; Glee Club, 1 ; Intercultural Relations Croup, 4; International Relations Club, 1,2; Poetry Club, 2, 3; Psychology Club, 2, 3; Science Club, 2, 3, 4, Treasurer, 3. May LILLIAN ABRAMS 400 Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey Major: English Minor: Biology Plenty of helpful and friendly advice . . , understanding . . . nothing she says ever leaves a sting . . . mature wisdom . . . keeping house and attending school keeps her calendar filled . . . forbearing . , . close-fitting cap of dark, curling hair . . . Don ' t you think it should be this way? Aldornia, 3, 4; Science Club, 3, 4. May NORMA J. ADAMS 322 Redwood Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey Major; English Minor; Social Studies Brushing back her long, dark hair . . . Will I have to cut my hair for practice teaching? . . . reserved . . . adding to her jingling collection of silver charms; a ring, a church . . . tall and striking . . . experienced equestrienne on her own Tim. Aldornia, 3, 4, Vice-President, 4; Class Secretary, 4; Poetry Club, 3, 4. May CONNIE AGRIFOLIO 17 Durrell Street, Verona, New Jersey Major: English Minor: Social Studies Opens the rec room in the early morn . . . life of the party . . . other half of the Totaro-Agrifolio combination . . . high style in hair do and dress . . . remember the Listen to Connie Incident in Frosh Civ. and Cit. class? Commuters Club, 1 . August RUTH ALPER 45 Main Street, Millburn, New Jersey Major: Mathematics Minor; Science Known to Aphesteon members as Einstein . . . unsur- passed as a mathematician and chemist . . . genuinely sincere manner that is endearing . . . Montclair pool . . . solo practice teaching in September. Aphesteon, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President, 4; Choral Speaking, 1 ; Choir, 1,2; Girls ' Glee Club, 1 ; Intercultural Relations Group, 4; Kappa Delta Pi, 3, 4; Sigma Phi Mu, 1 , 2, 3, 4; Science Club, 2, 3, 4. May 30 J