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

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Helen Hagi Mallis Critic Student University of New Hampshire, 1938-1940; B.Ed., Plymouth Teachers College, 1942; University of New Hampshire Summer School, 1943-1944; teacher, New Hampshire public schools, 1942-1943. Dorothy M. Clark Critic Plymouth Teachers College, 1941, B.Ed. Lilia M. Adams Critic Plymouth Teachers College, 1939; New Hampshire public schools, 1939-1942; Plymouth grade school, 1944, Emma Walker Matron, Mary Lyon Hall Gertrude Ida Shaw Registrar and Secretary to President Hazel Downing Clerk 12

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Robert John Ernst To the Graduates of the Commerce Curriculum At the time of this writing, the chief topic of discussion for the leaders of business education, as well as for leaders of education in general, is the question of postwar education. I am hoping that by the time you start your first real job of teaching, we shall have passed the “talking stage” and have reached the “doing stage”. Business educators cannot solve their problems by themselves. We are a part of education in general — not apart from it. The basic pre-war problem for us has been to discover just what part of the whole we are to be responsible for; that problem has never been definitely solved. Now we have a new problem — what is to be our responsibility in the program of postwar education? One of the first essentials in planning any program is to state clearly the purpose of that program. Only after we have done that can we decide on methods, subject matter, equipment, sequence of courses, and the other questions which must be answered before a complete program is realized. Our plan for the future must recognize the increasing complexity and activity of business. Our world is not static; our plans must be elastic. I am sure, however, that if we all do our part we can successfully accept this challenge of the times. Robert J. Ernst 14