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

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CLASS ODE Yours is mount’nous grandeur, Confounding awe sublime. Yours are towering beauties, Enduring for all time, Within the mem’ries of all, Whose hearts lift up to thee, The earnest eager warming praise For gifts we can not sec. Gifts which only we can know, Gifts we only feel, Gifts which upward lift our spirits When we pause to kneel. These we will always cherish Changeless they will be; Friendships dear, abiding faith, Gifts from P. T. C. 13

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Robert John Ernst To the Graduates of the Commerce Curriculum “The schools can render an important patriotic service by producing thoroughly trained clerical workers, and strongly encouraging students to stay in school until their training is really completed. —The poorly trained worker is a handicap rather than an asset in winning a war.” This is the message that the President of the U. S. Civil Service Commission has asked to be passed on to business educators. Business educators have trained thousands of workers—and trained them adequately. The records of failures to pass examinations given by war industries and Governmental agencies, by applicants who were supposed to be trained, indicate, however, that some of our training has not been adequate. Secondary schools can, and do, provide two major types of business education: (1) training in those phases of business that concern every member of organized society, and (2) specialized instruction for those who wish to become wage earners in specialized occupations. To the extent that our objectives arc vocational, we should strive individually to eliminate any necessity for “retraining” and “in-service” training, not only in this war-time emergency, but in the more enduring peace-time which is to come. The need for patriotic service to your state and your nation will not end with the order to “cease firing”. 15 Robert J. Ernst