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

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a ico ril from ihv prosiiloiit The Future is what is of prime importance. Thinking and planning and working engenders enthusiasm and helps to keep us young; and gives us “that zest glow from head to toe”. Maybe I’ve carried the idea a bit too far but we are told to set high goals and then sec how close we can come to reaching them. It pleased me to learn that the officers of this annual have chosen to make dedication to the Students of the Future. That is a new idea to me and the more I think about it. the better I like it. The Future is really what counts. Those who are responsible for the educational systems in this country must think and plan and work to be ready to meet the demands of tomorrow. Students of each generation must have more education than those of the past. Progress requires this. To me education means many things. It includes book learning, of course, but more than that it should provide for laboratory experiences, shop experiences and for the inculcation of straight thinking in human relations. It is the responsibility of our staff at the State School of Science to plan as well as possible for the Students of the Future to whom you have dedicated this yearbook. Everything cannot be done in a day. But may I assure you that folks on our administrative and teaching staffs will do everything within their power to improve opportunities on our campus for the Students of the Future who are given special recognition in this 1959 Agawasie. G. W. HA VERT Y President

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state board of hit her education The colleges and universities in our state are governed by the state Board of Higher Education. This board is made up of seven members appointed by the governor, with a commissioner elected by the board. Newly elected president of the board is M. S. Byrne who was formerly vice president of the group, and the new vice president for this term is Elvira Jestrab. Commissioner of the Board is Dr. A. E. Mead. The board of higher education makes the budget requests and reports for nine institutions under its control. It also has the power to organize or reorganize these institutions, to specify or change their prescribed curriculums. The new dormitory which will be completed this fall was made possible, in part, by the recommendations of the state board. Mildred It. Johnson Wahpcton Elvira Jest rah Wiliiston Martin G. Erase Kindred M. S. Hyrne Bowman .1. E. Mead Bismarck Fred Orth Grand Forks Albert Haas New Rockford ('. H'. taker Minot

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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.