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

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Robert Louis Stevenson To the Graduates of the Elementary Curriculum Your school, now Plymouth Teachers College, opened its first session in 1871. You will receive your degree in the year of the seventy-fifth anniversary. In those early days there were none of the conveniences that you take for granted today. Changes came at a leisurely pace and people readily adapted themselves. Yet it was a time of tremendous achievement; technical knowledge and skill were developed with extraordinary rapidity. Your everyday comforts result from the creative energy of the people of that day. You are of Today. In your four years of college life you have witnessed the greatest nations in cultural development, bending all their manhood and materials into building greater and better engines and transports for mass destruction of all that other men have built. If people created with extraordinary rapidity in the first years of your alma mater, today’s changes come with the speed of light and leave people more or less bewildered. Today space has lost its meaning, and people on the other side of the globe have become as our neighbors on the next street. While you may wistfully indulge in pleasant dreams of enticing postwar gadgets, fascinating new materials, and resplendent classroom facilities, you had best stay rather close to the practical, work-a-day world in which you must still live. The machine will assume even greater importance, but in both life and education, people arc your major concern. Children are people and their exploring minds and creative hands will remain very much the same. Your material of tomorrow will be the children in your classroom. May you succeed in moulding their minds to the task of building a better world for tomorrow’s men, that they may be the creators of the useful and beautiful, rather than the destructive. You have carried through your undergraduate work with enthusiasm and intelligence. May your future endeavor be as inspiring and progressive as has been the traditional record of Plymouth I eachers College graduates. Robert L. Stevenson

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BARBARA HELEN PATCH Attractive, ambitious, and athletic Student Council I; Social Club Council 2, 3; Pan Athenaeum 1, 2, 3, 4; Director 2, 3; Athletic Association 1, 2, 3; President 3; Field Hockey 1, 2, 3, 4; Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Team 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Softball 1, 2, 3; Tennis 2; Bowling 2, 3; Badminton 1, 2, 3; Ping Pong 1, 3; Deck Tennis 1, 2. 3. DAISY ELEANOR PEIRCE Moderate, frank, and conscientious Forensic 3, 4; Volleyball 2, 3; Bowling 2, 3, 4; Ping Pong 3. PAULINE ALBERTA WARREN Athletic, capable, and dauntless Class President 2; Vice-President 1; Social Club 1, 2, 3, 4; President 3; Glee Club 1; Pan Athenaeum I, 2, 3, 4; Director 3, 4; Forensic 1, 2; French Club 1; Publicity Committee 2, 3; Chairman 3; Athletic Association 2; Field Hockey I, 2, 3. 4; Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Team 1, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Team 2, 3; Softball 1, 2; Tennis 2; Bowling 2, 3; Badminton 1, 2, 3; Ping Pong 1; Deck Tennis 1, 2, 3. EARL QUIMBY SANBORN Humorous, broad-minded, and conscientious Student Council 3, 4; Ping Pong 3; Commuter 1, 2. 21

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PAULINE LOUISE BELYEA Artistic, respectful, and quiet Commuter 1, 2, 3. GERTRUDE BROWN BARRON Sincere, versatile, and reliable Class Vice-President 2; Class President 3, 4; Social Club Council 3, 4; Forensic 1; Publicity Committee 3, 4; Chairman 3; Athletic Association 1, 3; Secretary 1; Volleyball 1, 2, 3; Class Team 1, 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Class Team 1, 2, 3; Varsity 3; Bowling 2, 3, 4; Badminton 1, 2, 3, 4; Deck Tennis 1, 2, 3, 4. BETTY ANN BRACKETT Naive, mischievous, and industrious Student Council I; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; President 3; Chapel Choir 3; Forensic I; French Club 1; Vice-President I; Athletic Association 3; Field Hockey 1; Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Softball 1; Bowling 2, 3, 4; Badminton I, 2, 3, 4; Ping Pong 1, 3, 4; Deck Tennis 1, 2, 3, 4. ELVIS LAURA BRALEY Ambitious, determined, and optimistic Forensic 1, 2, 3, 4; Art Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Prospect I; Volleyball 4; Class Team 4; Softball 4; Bowling 4; Badminton 4; Deck Tennis 4. 23