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

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I.EOT A IRENE ALDRICH Lee New Ipswich, N. H. Wise, Witty, Poised Class Vice President I; Pan Athenaeum 2, 3; Field Hockey 1, 2; Volley Ball 1. 2. 3; Basketball I, 2, 3; Badminton 1, 2, 3; Deck Tennis I, 2; Bowling 2; Tap Dancing. ANNIE PATRICIA DUBEAU “Butch” Derry. N. H. intelligent. Carefree, Capable French Club 2; Field Hockey 3; Badminton I, 2, 3; Deck Tennis I, 2, 3. LEAH ALICE GRAY Lee” Plymouth, N. H. Artistic, Demure, Diligent Art Club 4; Pan Athenaeum 3, 4; Prospect Staff 3; Badminton 2; Year Book Staff 4. CHRISTYNE LOUISE MITTON Chris” Sugar Hill, N. H. Enthusiastic, Witty, Loyal Student Council 3; Social Club 4; Junior Glee Club I; Band 1, 2, 3; Pan Athenaeum 1; Forensic I; French Club 1; Field Hockey 2, 3; Volley Ball 2, 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Varsity 1, 2; Badminton I, 2, 3; Deck Tennis 1, 2, 3; Yearbook Staff 4 CATHERINE MARGARET STUI.B “Katie” Portsmouth, N. H. Jovial, Determined, Energetic Social Club I, 3, 4; President 3; Junior Glee Club 1; Pan Athenaeum 2, 3, 4; Forensic 2, 3, 4; Prospect Staff 2; French Club 1, 2; Field Hockey 1, 2. 3; Volley Ball I. 2, 3; Class Team I. 2, 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Varsity I, 2; Class Team 1, 2, 3; Softball 1. 2, 3. 4; Badminton 1, 2, 3, 4; Deck Tennis 1, 2, 3, 4. 18

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Geneva M. Smith To the Graduates of the Secondary Curriculum For four years Plymouth Teachers College has been concerned with your professional development. If you have not acquired a respect for learning and a desire to continue to extend your education beyond this training, then your college has failed in one of its greatest obligations. The schools of this nation are not safe unless teachers realize that their college degree signifies but the first step on their way toward intellectual maturity. A greater obligation of a teacher training institution is to help develop, according to your individual capacities, your reasoning powers which are so greatly needed in discriminating between knowledge and that which often is mistakenly accepted as knowledge. Scientific and social developments can not be judged by their immediate values. What seems practical today may seem irrational and inconsistent in the world of tomorrow, while much that now appears useless and remote, because we cannot see its unlimited potentialities, may prove of deepest concern. Teachers must try to understand and to appraise those changes which arc fundamental in a democratic state and which today arc intensified by closer world contacts. An understanding of a complex society like ours demands a constant reviewing, evaluating, and reorganizing of our knowledge and of our aims. In order to do this effectively we must, in the words of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, “remember that while we must not be visionary we must have vision”—vision based on deep, broad, understandings and insights in an inquiring, maturing mind. 17 Geneva M. Smith

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Robert L. Boyd To the Graduates of the Elementary Curriculum At the present time, few of you arc thinking of the past;—that is now history. Most of you arc looking ahead for an opening through which to do your part towards making your teaching a success. For four short years you have been equipping yourselves with the necessary knowledge to serve successfully the job ahead. When you started on your college career, few of you knew for what to prepare. The vision has, however, through careful training, gradually presented itself. You have chosen the field of teaching. Prepare the pupil well, that he will avoid the mistakes of the past. Temper with the spirit of loyalty, good fellowship, and cooperation— your P. T. C. heritage—that his and your expectation of a better world will be realized. Best wishes for your future success. Robert L. Boyd We wish to thank you, Mr. Boyd, for only through your patient effort and cooperation are we able to portray pictori-ally, P. T. C.’s activities. 19