Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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This POTPOURRI is the pictorial record of our association together this year as a college community. The antics of college life and the pictures especially may seem quaint to us in future years, but the ideals toward which we strive and the growth which we may achieve, we believe, will be as worthy then as they are worthwhile now. All the friends and the members of Northwestern State College of Louisiana want to see it give emphasis to its finest traditions. They want it also to make changes and adaptions to the new occasions and the new duties required of a college in our erupting modern society. To achieve and maintain its status as a college that does these things, it should: 1. Retain those superior and industrious members of the faculty who have done so much to make this College what it is today. 2. Attract to this campus superior and resourceful men and women to fill faculty vacancies. 3. Draw to the College superior young high school graduates — the speakers, the writers, the good students, the natural leaders, and the natural athletes — in other words, the elite and gifted young people of Louisiana who are seriously interested in work and growth in an environment most favorable to higher education. 4. Obtain increased state appropriations for the employment of superior men and as teachers, and for the extension and improve- ment of the College plant (a new science building, additional dormi- tories for men and women, a larger and air-conditioned library, better teacher-education facilities are among our plant needs). 5. Develop an espirif de corps so fine that all students and former stu- dents will say with pride, I belong to Northwestern State College of Louisiana and that old place belongs to me. When we pick up this annual in the years to come, it will be interesting to consider the extent to which we have been able to do these things. JOSEPH E.GIBSON, President THE PRESIDENT.. 23

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MR. JOSEPH E.GIBSON FROM THE OFFICE 22 D F

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ACADEMIC DEANS Including the departments of Art, Languages, Library Science, Mathematics, Music, Sciences, Social Sciences, and a well-rounded pre-professional curricula, the School of Arts and Sciences has recently developed into an inte- gral part of the college. Headed by Dean C. E. Dugdale, this academic divi- sion has seen a tremendous increase of students and has recruited a large group of competent teachers to keep pace with the growing demands of our post-war civiliza- tion. DR. C. E. DUGDALE D»«n of th« School of Artt jnd So nc«i The School of Education, which serves as one of the chief teacher training agencies of the state, supplies its students with an extensive teacher-education program that meets favorably with contemporary needs. To assure a sound background, and a working knowl- edge of the teaching profession, this school provides suitable curricula and two training schools for its pros- pective educators. Dean John Robson heads a large and efficient staff of instructors in this department. DR. JOHN ROBSON D «n of th« School of Education