North Dakota State College of Science - Agawasie Yearbook (Wahpeton, ND)

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 944 MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR MOSES 'This book is most fittingly dedicated to the young men and women who have left the School of Science to make their direct contribution to victory. These voting jH'ojde have interrupted their education to support and defend the principles of free speech, free thought and free choice which have made that education possible. They defend, for themselves and for future generations. the right to learn, unhampered b dog-ma and p ditical idea logy. i hey seek to guarantee. for tho.e who would learn, access to all sources ot knowledge and the right to find tlu truth in their own way. free from the influences ot fear and prejudice. Above all. they desire to safeguard for America the opportunity for an enlightened and reasonable electorate, capable of individual thought and determination based upon thorough and accurate knowledge. There are no greater contrasts than those which exist between our system of free education and the propaganda agencies to which educational systems have degenerated in the dictator nations. Dictatorships thrive only in an atmosphere of fear and hatred and intolerance—an atmosphere in which the seeker after truth is told what he must believe and to what sources he must go for his information. Freedom can not live among a people who have lost the knowledge of freedom. any more than despotism can survive among a people to whom the fruits of freedom are known and understood. I be gieatne s of our tatr and our nation has always been dependent upon the enlightenment of our people.. A high degree of enlightenment is even more essential now than ever before, for the just and lasting peace for which we now light and work and pray can only he achieved bv xvisc. tolerant, and courageous leadership springing front and supported by a poop|c w|losc deliberate judgment is based upon knowledge of the problems they face. Upon those of os who remttin .it home rests the burden of protection our free institutions gainst encroachment and desrUK.,j„ (nrc s „.ilhil, ,|u. n:lti„n while these young men and women ... ours defend as, enenu who would utterly dsasiroy them. 1-el us resolve that no may..... anJ „„ u.k ;igi|ancc „„ ()„r part :,v mdan-er the future f„r vv|lic|, „„„. SKrifict.

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 944 OLcrfg cuvaiiz ontznth Message from Governor Moses Message from the Editor Administration Classes Activities Sports Features Roll of Honor U. S. Navy on Our Campus Patrons Roll of Students

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atvaiiz '944 Even a small annual requires concentrated effort from the staff, adviser, and printers. After the plans have been made there is work to Ik done. The fact that this 1944 Agawauf is in your hands today proves that everyone connected with its publication has done his job and done it well. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you students for your support in the form of subscriptions. Even with a small enrollment the per cent of subscriptions was high. As you read this yearbook give silent thanks to the staff members that gave of their time to write the “copy” that will always remind you of 1944 at S.S.S. A yearbook would be an impossibility without printers, of course. I heartily thank Mr. Sattcrlec and Mr. Currie for their willing help. Mr. Satterlee was always willing to help if we dashed to him with a problem. The expense of this work was in the greater part cheerfully met by our advertisers. In this small book we have been unable to repay them by large ads but everyone should show each and everyone of them that we appreciate the confidence they placed in our students and our publication. She is small but she was mighty” helpful. I am speaking of none other than our adviser, Miss Mercedes Morris. Miss Morris was ever ready to help the staff with her advice, suggestions, and improvements and the staff and I owe to her our greatest vote of thanks for her constant help on this publication. 1 also wish to thank Governor John Moses for his cooperation in presenting to the students a message. 1 wish to say thank you” to each and everyone of the faculty members for their aid, to the engravers, and to anyone else who had a small part in making this book a reality. As I close I wish to leave this quotation for you to remember in future years: Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”—Anon. Frances Ujka, Editor