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

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A Word From the President Some time in the past, I used the title “Growing Pains” for an article in our school paper. It strikes me that this is an appropriate subject for brief comment in this year’s annual because our growing pains arc becoming more intense; and these growing pains, resulting from increasing enrollment, naturally make more work for all of us. During the two years that you seniors have been on our campus you have been most cooperative in accepting crowded conditions and daily schedules that have not been entirely satisfactory. Here is my opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for your fine attitude. While on the subject of growth permit me to encourage each graduate and each first year student to grow and grow and grow. It pays to keep increasing our amounts of knowledge and skill; and good returns result from improvement in our pei'sonal qualities. I will not elaborate; you know what I mean. As I encourage you in the direction of individual growth, I also extend personal good wishes to each and every one in all the years that lie ahead. May good fortune go hand in hand with whatever you do toward your personal growth. Sincerely,

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State Board of Higher Education The eight colleges and the university in North Dakota are governed by the Board of Higher Education. This board of seven members is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Commissioner of the board is Dr. A. E. Mead who is elected by the board itself. Newly elected president of the board is Mrs. Elvira Jestrab of YVilliston. while the vice president for the term is Mr. Albert Haas of New Rockford. The Board of Higher Education has the power to pass on budget requests, changes in the curricula, both short and long planning, and personnel policies. Mildred IS. Johnson Wahpeton A. ;. Mind Bismarck Klrirn Jr si rah Williston Fred Orth Grand Forks Marlin (S. Kruse Kindred Albert linns New Rockford M. S. Itijrnc Bowman C. Il linker Minot

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Director of Junior College VERNON E. HEKTNER Excellence is one attribute that the modern world must insist upon as never before. There has been entirely too much shoddiness in every line of human endeavor. As a civilization we can no longer afford the luxury of tolerating an inferior product. Yet on every hand we see the effects of inferior workmanship, inferior scholarship, and general apathy toward the demands of perfection. It is no accident that our way of life now faces a foreign ideology that seems bent on destroying us and at the same time has the power to make this statement at least somewhat more than an idle threat. We must look for excellence wherever it can be found. This includes all education from the technical and vocational to the liberal and graduate level. We must learn to honor or even demand excellence in every socially accepted human activity no matter how humble its origin and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. John W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Corporation recently said, “There may be excellent and incompetent plumbers; excellent philosophers and incompetent philosophers. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” It is with this thought that I wish to bid farewell to the class of 1060.