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

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PLYMOUTH CREED Perseverance in effort Loyalty to ideals Yearning f urn or service M emories tliat hless and Ir Opportunity for self-expression Unity with humanity Trust in God Honor to country and self

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Ernest L. Silver DEDICATION The members of the Class of 1946 dedicate this Year Book to you, our President, Ernest Leroy Silver. For thirty-five years you have devoted your interest, effort, and strength to the building of this college, holding to your ideals in the molding of the character and in the professional training of the students who were to graduate from this institution. You have taught us in all our work, the value of the spirit underlying all human institutions. You have taught us the dignity of responsible personal character in our future service. 4

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The President’s Message The Class of 1946 Is not a war-time graduating class. The war has created conditions that affect everybody, statesmen, clergy, teachers, parents, and children. Our fighting forces have risen to great heights of devotion and brave accomplishment, hoiks at home have carried on magnificently. Every war, however, brings on an aftermath of social laxities and economic changes. Juvenile delinquency, crime waves, loosened moral codes, and less careful living in general arc the usual results. To bind up the nation’s wounds, to restore the high ideals, to assure the disciplines of clear thinking and right acting are not only the duty of all in public and family authority but are particularly the dutiful privileges of the good teacher. Because the supply of teachers is so far below the need, every trained teacher should enter service with missionary zeal not only to teach lessons well, but to make young Americans the best and wisest citizens of a more complex society. Peace, prosperity, and goodness begin at home, in our school, in our state, in our nation. With the help of some other great nations, of good purpose, we may yet become one world, peaceful though atomic. It will take all our ability, our greatest courage, and much fineness of spirit to recover what has been lost, to fortify the future good. The teacher must be the peace time warrior to preserve the pristine verities and to advance the ever opening ways of greater appreciation of universal peace and of happy participation therein. It is blessedly awesome to be a good teacher. 6 Ernest L. Silver