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

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Board of Higher Education Dr. A. F.. Mead Commissioner Albert Dan President Hismarck New Rockford Marlin G. Kruse Kimlml Mildred II. Johnson Wahpoton Fred Orth Grand Forks Fleirti Jeslruh Wllllstoil Ralph Christensen was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of C. W. Baker of Minot. Ray Schnell is filling out the term of M. S. Byrne of Bowman and will be succeeded on July 1. 1961 by John Conrad of Bismarck. A Word from the Governor . . . One hundred years ago, Dakota Territory was formed and settled by determined people. We have progressed well from one generation to another, but ahead are critical years for North Dakota. Important decisions must be made. Trained, energetic people arc needed to make these decisions and carry them out. North Dakota needs you on its farms, in its towns, cities and counties. We need your talents in industry—farming, petroleum, commerce, milling, and our other means of production. Most of all, we need your determination to make your North Dakota community a satisfying place in which to live. North Dakota is proud to have provided you with the technical training so necessary for success in the future. Whether you stay in the state or choose to work in another state, I urge you to use your talent for the good of our growing nation. Governor Hill Gun

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II'. M. Nordguard, Registrar and Director of Business School Division; Janies A. Horton, Director of Trade-Technical Division; Vernon Hektner, Dean of Junior College. A Message from the President . . . In the first issue of our school paper last fall, I sincerely urged students to strive for excellency. I commented on the fact that we arc living in a good age but also in a dangerous age; and, that in this critical period, we must not adjust ourselves to mediocrity. It is my feeling that this is so important in the years just ahead that it will bear constant repetition. It is the responsibility of parents, teachers, administrators and students to set patterns of excellence in grade schools, in high schools, and in colleges throughout the nation. Generations come and generations go; and. if we are to survive, we must establish standards of excellence that will result in habits of thinking and habits of doing that which will cause individuals to rise above mediocrity. I like very much the statement made by Mr. Albert Haas, President of our State Board of Higher Education, in a brochure that has just come off the press at the time I am preparing this statement for your annual. Mr. Haas says: “The price of excellence is high, but the price of mediocrity is higher.’ To those of you who arc completing courses with us this year, I commend you to think always in terms of excellence. If you continue your education, be satisfied only with excellence as your goal. If you are going to employment, the same thinking and the same attitude apply equally well. To those of you who will be returning next year, I urge that you keep striving for excellence. There is satisfaction in doing so and the dividends arc high. 11