Plymouth State University - Conning Tower Yearbook (Plymouth, NH)

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Herbert Huntington Lamson In recognition of your thirty-five years of loyal service to Plymouth Normal School, our class of 1938 wishes to dedicate this Conning Tower to you, Dr. Lamson. We regret that future students will not have the opportunity to star gaze with you, to keep weather reports for you, to be told “never to say ‘boo’ to a blind horse,” or to hear, “Now this is a pretty little experiment.” Not one of us will ever pass your classroom without seeing “Dr. Lammy” at work in his laboratory. You ha e given us practical lessons in science and nature. But more than that, you have given us memories of your courage, your wisdom, your kindness, and your sense of humor. You have taught us our eyes are to see with and our brains to use. No one can ever fill the place you are leaving in P.N.S., and you will never be absent from the place you hold in our hearts. 6

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Ernest Leroy Silver The President's Message The college graduate, especially the graduate of a teachers’ college, may well ponder whether he will leave Alma Mater imbued with determined professional spirit or merely hopeful of getting a job. A job will provide opportunity; the individual must make the job a successful service. Anyone of average intelligence can do any ordinary job in an ordinary way. The master teacher is not content to be merely ordinary; he aims to be professional. Whether in law, medicine, or teaching, he is not truly professional who does not put service above selfishness. There are dishonest lawyers, quack doctors, and time-serving teachers. Service for them is not an exaltation, sometimes quite the opposite. Whoever enters upon a profession must make careful preparation to possess the necessary knowledge that constitutes the tools of his occupation. He needs further a wealth of learning that for lack of better word we will call culture. He must still further cultivate and use the qualities of personality that inspire, give confidence, and impel, so that in his professional activities he may display leadership. The teacher, especially, is hardly professional without capacity for guidance. Being a truly professional teacher is not a soft job; it is a delightful vocation. It involves continual study; it requires an open mind and ever expanding horizon; it demands rhink- 8