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

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The President’s Message To the class of 1945, as well as to recent earlier classes and classes immediately to follow, I would give praise for devotion to a calling most important and truly patriotic in these war times. Temptations to seek immediate inflated wages in war industries or to enroll in subsidized fields or to seek more glamorous enlistments have been alluring, doubtless. You have held fast to your ideals of service for a lasting civilization. You have sensed the true foundations of safety for peaceful people in a free world. You have prepared to make the tomorrows good days for America. Legions of brave men and women arc fighting the enemy in battle; it had to be so. You have to hold high the torch, symbol of light and learning, that coming generations may know and have the lights of literacy, understandings and emotions fitting for the civilization our warriors are struggling, even dying, to preserve. A few years of good teaching lost to impressionable youth can never be retrieved. Nascent periods do not recur in any lifetime. Praises be for teachers who hold the lines lest there be lost battalions of American youths! 6 Ernest L. Silver

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 Ernest Leroy Silver President Dartmouth College, B.L.; Pd.D.; Harvard Summer School. Eva Earll Furlong English Cornell University, Ph.B.; A.M.; Columbia University, Summer School. Guy Edwin Speare Supervisor of Campus Schools and Director of Training Dartmouth College, A.B.; Harvard University, Ed.M. Geneva May Smith Mathematics Farmington State Normal School, Maine; Boston University, B.S. in Ed.; University of Maine, B.A.; University of Chicago, Summer Quarter; Graduate work, University of Maine. Beatrice Ella Hodgdon Physical Education Plymouth Teachers College; Posse Normal School; Harvard University, Summer Term; Columbia University, B.S.; A.M. Ruth Olive Bozarth Geography Illinois State Normal University, B.Ed.; Columbia Teachers College, A.M. 8