Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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W. A, BRANDENBURG. LL.D. PRESIDENT

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PRESIDENTS GREETINGS TO THE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI OF K. S. T. C.: Another school year will soon slip into K. S. T. C. history. Like each of the twenty-five which have preceded, it has been a year full of effort and sincere desire to serve the educational interests of our splen- did state. We are coming to appreciate more and more the indispensable value of a universal democratic education of our citizenry. The struggle to give equal educational opportunities to all our people—city and country alike; to set up in our institutions of higher learning, as well as the public schools, such curricula as are intended to increase social efficiency, and serve all according to different desires and objectives is the educational slogan of the hour. Four additional buildings have been completed and put into use dur- ing the past two years; the student body has increased; both the two and four-year graduating classes are a little larger than last year. The demand for our graduates is increasing from year to year, and each year sees an increasing number of responsible positions in posses- sion of graduates of K. S. T. C. These, together with many achievements which might be listed, gratifying as they all are, only speak to us of the greater opportunities and responsibilities of our beloved institution. Please do not get a feeling that because cur graduates now number in the thousands, and the School has grown so large, that we do not have the same interest in you individually that we had in other days. To enable us to keep our personal contact, and continue our services to you individ- ually will necessitate greater effort on your part as well as ours. The administration would be derelict if we did not extend our con- gratulations to the Kanza Staff for this beautiful volume; also to Mr. Coffelt, supervisor of our Printing School, and his associates for the highly efficient work in the assembling, printing, and binding of this book. Yours for a greater and better K. S. T. C., V . A. BRANDENBURG, President.

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GREETINGS It always gives me great pleasure to extend greetings to the alumni, students, and friends of the Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas. May I ask each one of you the question, what does K. S, T. C. mean to you? It should mean a new conception of the relations between the Alumni, the College, and the Student Body. It means that K. S. T. C. is not the sole property of any Board of Regents, College Faculty, or Ath- letic Council, but it is as well the property of the Student Body. It means that commencement and the sheepskin do not graduate us OUT of, but INTO a greater college relationship with more responsibilities, deeper devotions, and loyalties. It means that K. S. T. C. does not cease to serve, guide, and teach on that fair June day. It means that education is recog- nized as a life-long process in which K. S. T. C. should play an important part in “giving adult education to adults.” It means, furthermore, that the avenue to K. S. T. C. is no longer a one-way street, with traffic moving only toward the campus, but that there are now two lines of travel. Unless K. S. T. C, succeeds in instilling the spirit of the institution into its students so that its influence is felt in later years, it has failed in some measure in the task undertaken. Our Alma Mater stands ready “to help, not to hinder, always to support, never to limit.” Cordially yours, L. M. COLLINS, Dean of Men. PAGE 3-1