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

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ELVI E. KEURULAINEN Eek” New Ipswich, N. H. Junior Glee Club (I); Forum (1) (2), Secretary-Treasurer (i); Representative (3); Class Secretary-Treasurer (3) (4); Athletic Association Secretary-Treasurer (3); Yearbook Staff Business Manager (4); Varsity Basketball (1) (3) (4); Volleyball (1) (2) (3); Speedball (1) (2) (3); Baseball (1) (2) (3); Baseball Leader (2); Bowling Tournament (1) (2) (3); Badminton Tournament (2) (3); Tennis Tournament (2). DOROTHY MAY LUZO Luzo” Lancaster, N. H. Varsity Basketball (1) (2) (3) (4); Orchestra (1) (2) (3) (4); Speedball (1) (2) (3); Pan-Athenaeum (2) (3); Advertising Manager of Yearbook (4). Her personality has won us, her wit has made us laugh, but with all her fun-loving spirit, she was one of the most conscientious girls of our class. GERTRUDE SARGENT “Tilla” Ashland, N. H. Commuter’s Basketball Team (1) (3), Secretary-Treasurer (1); Class Basketball Team (3); Class Marshal (3); Advertising Manager of Yearbook (4). Gertrude's charm and good qualities have won the admiration of all who know her. LUCILLE ELIZABETH SMITH Smitty’’ Hinsdale, N. H. Speedball (I); Basketball (1); Representative (2); Chief Justice (3); Orchestra (1) (2) (3) (4); Band (1) (2) (3) (4), Secretary (2), Librarian (3); Junior Glee Club (I); Forum (1) (2); Class President (3); Business Manager of Yearbook (4). “I shall never laugh but in that maid’s company.”—Shakttptart. 17

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Beatrice Mary Witham To the Graduates of the Four Year Commerce Curricul um Vocational guidance in the small high school is largely the responsibility of the teacher of business. The assumption of that responsibility should be taken seriously and gladly by the business teacher to whom teaching is more than a means of earning a livelihood. Without wise educational and vocational guidance, both the individual and society must suffer. To prepare himself for this service, the business teacher must keep in mind that Commencement is but the beginning of a broad program of enlarging his field of vision. Vacations offer splendid opportunities for the business teacher to obtain that practical business experience, so necessary for an understanding of the requirements of the job, and for vitalizing and modernizing the courses he offers in his classes. The business teacher who takes these responsibilities seriously does not find teaching a soft snap; and unless he is willing to sacrifice self to service, he should pass the torch to someone more vitally interested in a life of service to the community. 16 Beatrice Witham

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Harry Preble Swett To the Graduate of the Secondary Curriculum The final aim of man's intelligence is to understand the universe of which we arc a part. In the nineteenth century many intellectual leaders thought they had reached solutions, which already do not appear so satisfactory. There were often interesting cases of the fallacy which Bacon called the Idol of the Theater. By this he meant that “many principles and axioms” are used in such a way as to cause errors. One of these was the evolutionary fallacy which is a misuse of the concept of origins. This fallacy has been given different names: the fallacy of genesis, reductionism, the nothing-but explanation, the explanation of the higher by the lower, or of a complex structure by a less complex. An illustration of this kind of thinking would be the statement that man is nothing but an animal with a higher intelligence. This illustration of the fallacy of genesis is an example, also, of another of Bacon’s idols, which he called the Idol of the Market-place. By this fallacy “the ill and unfit choice of words” “leads men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.” The error in this thinking violates the first law of thought, the law of identity or consistency. The term man is not used identically in both cases. A man is not an animal with some additions. A man is a man. Emergent evolution, which explains the lower by the higher, has helped to clarify this thinking. 18