Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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P K A r 1- O X I A Frkdkkic B. Pkmi. I ' lfsUinl c;i:oRGE D. Pratt, I ' icc-l ' rcsiJ,-nl BOARD OF TRUSTEES Harold I. Prait. Trcasur.-r CnAR[ ts Prait, S,-cT,-lary IV:

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P K A T T O N I A and conducts teacher training courses in art, and in art and manual training. The Institute was created and endowed by Charles Pratt, a practical and successful manufacturer who was deeply interested in education. Mr. Pratt was a self-trained man, and, in planning Pratt Institute, was guided almost entirely by his personal experience. He therefore made it a school where young men and women, circumstanced as he had been been, could have the chance that he had never had ; and, because he knew what they needed and why the average school had failed to give it, he planned with an insight and a foresight that have won both approval and admiration. The philosophy of education and life that Mr. Pratt had in 1887 when he founded Pratt Institute is as sound today as it was then. To him, education in its deepest sense meant experience. The development of re- sponsibility, initiative and character comes from doing things in a real way. The arts, the industries, and the home seemed to him to offer the best opportunities for true education, for their problems are real and concrete. While he never lost sight of the value of machinery in the industrial world, he put his especial emphasis on the value of the worker. To give training to workers, both men and women, and to make them intelligent, competent, and happy, was his purpose. To put into the average commonplaces of the shop and the workroom some of the inspiration of culture was his ambition. To do, in short, for the ambitious American man and woman some of the things which, by great effort and sacrifice, he had done for himself, was his reason for founding Pratt Institute. His philosophy of life may be best expressed by one of his sayings: Work is the essential part of life and nothing worth having comes without it. Everything costs something in effort or discipline or sacrifice. Health comes from habits of right living, and that means restraint; wealth comes from persistence and energ ' , and that means labor ; education comes from application and industry, and that means discipline; happiness comes from consideration of others, and that means imselfishness. [14]

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P R A T T O N I A PRATTONIA BOARD AND STAFF RUSSELL H. WHEELER, Editor-in-Chief Charles E. Niles, Literary Editor Burton Dutcher, Art Editor Charles W. Tripp, Associate Editor of S. T. School Susan Joyce, ■■ Associate Editor. School of F. ' A. A. Ruth W. Armentrout, Associate Editor, School of H. S. y A. Rosalie Mackenzie, Associate Editor, Library School Eric D. Altree, Photographic Editor Theodore F. Norton, Athletics Editor Marion Herzberg, Social Editor Faculty Advisers Horace W. Marsh Ernest W. AVatson Business Staff Bernard F. Gillespie, Business Manager Aaron E. Shultis, (Arciilation Manager Edward H. Wagner, Secretary Department Assistants George H. Jaeger, Assistant Circulation Manager Wyatt Schoonmaker, Assistant Literary Editor Benjamin J. I Liyo, Jr., Assistant Social Editor Walter Young, Assistant Art Editor William Lavallee, Assistant Athletic Editor Lester S. Jones, Assistant Business JManager Madelone Shea, Assistant Associate Editor, S. y A. Representatives . George V. Green, L C. E. H 1!. I. Roach, L C. E. I A. H. Stansell, L E. E. H B. H. Firth, L E. E. I K. Landers, L M. E. H R. Lewis, L M. E. I Margaret Temple, Gen. Art HI Florence Rupprecht, Gen. Art H Kenneth Carpenter, Gen. Art I-A Esta Rautio, Gen. Art I-B Ruth Hayden, Normal Art H Be Armitage, Costume Illus. I Elois Ennis, Costume Illus. II Louise Blyn, Costume Illus. HI l lisabeth Alt, Design I Ena Labbock, Design II Rosamond Balsover, Dietetics II Caroline Ackert, Dietetics I Mary Murray, Inst. Vlanagement Marion Kottcamp, Costume Design Mary Shea, Trade Dressmaking Dorothea A. Dyer, Homemaking Blanche Carter, Trade Millinery Mary V ' . Gorgas, Library School [16