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

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rotfisirar. business school hvatl W. M. NORDGAARD The past several days—this is being written on February 25—my major problem has been student placement. There seems to be an urgency on the part of students, particularly girls, to take a job. I think it is very nice for them to have a desire to work and to earn a living. However, I fear that many young men and women overlook the fact that employers are not seeking people —they are seeking people with certain skills, work habits, personality, and mental abilities. The applicant must possess these qualities before they can expect favorable consideration from the employer. I am frequently asked, “How long should I go to school?” There is no one answer to this question, but I usually answer saying that you should go to school as long as it takes you to qualify for the type of work that you want to do. To be a stenographer you should be able to take dictation at 80 words per minute and transcribe it accurately. You cannot expect to obtain employment as a stenographer if you can just take dictation at the rate of 40 words per minute. Time spent in training for a given job is generally not wasted. The important thing is that you make the best use of the time that you put into training. Do the very best job that you can, so that some employer is going to be interested in your abilities. The school has then attained its goal and you have attained your goal in the business world of the future.

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director of junior rollryr VERNON E. HEKTNER Ideas are the most powerful things in today’s world. More than anything else, new social and technical ideas will serve to keep the torch of freedom burning. New and better ideas will liberate man from disease, pain, and discomfort. Social innovations will make our life more livable and happy by eliminating some of the causes for human unrest. Most ideas simply do not occur as a single flash of genius in some person, but are the result of creative thinking in some person or group and a lot of hard work to back it up. More than anything else, the educated person must be able to think; he must be able to think through the ideas of the past and come up with ideas for the future. It has been said that Americans are more orientated toward the future than the past. That is as it should be. Science students are interested in the future or they would not be preparing themselves for the future. It is to this world of the future that we dedicate our todays—the world of tomorrow, a future so full of new ideas as to stagger the imagination of even a dreamer.

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tlirertor of truth's Ivvhnivul tlirision JAMES A. HORTON Present and future students of the State School of Science are in an enviable position with the facilities available to them to train both their hands and their minds to meet the demands of industry, business, and governmental agencies in this technological era upon which we are embarking. Skill with the hands is most important. But the person of today and tomorrow, in addition to these skills, will need to know how to apply the principles and laws of mathematics, science, and communications. To be able to repair, service, assemble, disassemble, and assist in the design and building of machines is important, but the very existence of these machines is dependent upon the teamwork of the men and women who must work with them and who are affected by them. Through the years the shops, the laboratories, and the classrooms at the State School of Science have been organized and arranged to provide the best possible opportunity to apply and interpret these skills and to develop the ability of creative thinking. To the student of today and of the future, yours is the opportunity, yours is the enviable position of being able to take advantage of a training program wherein both the hand and the mind are trained. This is the type of person who commands the premium price, the type of person most sought after by all employers.