Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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. e . ' if 2 . is il t 3 i i si. it il, .it li ti ,,. l gl ,L E. Dear Friends of June 1942, There is a poignancy in the motto of our seal, Discimus ut S6TUl4ll7l'L1,lS, that was not anticipated at the time of its adoption. YVC were to learn that we might serve our fellow men in peace and by serving faithfully make the tragedy of war increasingly remote. But today we must prepare to serve in war and in peace. Each week, students and teachers join our armed forces. Others prepare for civilian defense. Each of us identifies himself with the great war effort. Our day by day teaching takes its color from the need of the hour. lf our conception of dignity of human life is to prevail, then we IUUSK prepare not only for a quickened victory, but also for the inevitable peace in a democratic society. Queens College, like her sister colleges, must continue to be the sanctuary for emerging ideas. Your generation is asked to pay an overwhelming price to preserve the democratic process. But yours will be the high reward. For you shall see the liberation of all peoples through the enrichment of the democratic ideal. Faithfully yours, PAUL KLAPPER I4

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, l Bryant High School students who whistle at that pretty student teacher from Queens College, South Jamaica grammar school students tolerantly amused by the seemingly strange antics of the green young teacher who take over their classes, speech defectives made suddenly aware of their alveolar ridges and glottal stops, all serve as unwitting guinea pigs for Queens College teaching aspirants. But there is no real danger in this service. In fact in many cases the unwitting guinea pigs find themselves influenced to the good by the educational experi- ments of the eager young men and women trying their hands at putting educational theory into practice. For the Department of Education of Queens College has exercised strict care in teaching the college stu- dent who would make teaching his career how to make classes interesting and Well organized, and, especially in the case of speech and mental de- fectives, how to put a pupil in the proper psychological frame of mind for learning. It is the aim of democratic education to provide to every citizen the training that makes for equality of oppor- tunity. In turning out skilled teachers, well aware of progress in the field of education, in giving underprivileged children the chance to correct speech defects that might hinder their future success through the Speech Clinic, in making educational theories workable, Queens College is laying the groundwork for the future accomplishment of that great aim. Practice teaching is but one of the means toward that end. I3

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Dean arqaret V. liiel Dean Margaret V. Kiely . . . our woman of this or any other year. As Dean she has done far more than her job of supervising student activities and affairs. During the past term Miss Kiely has made an effort, in spite of an already full program, to attend every student function on the campus. And this includes the First Aid classes initiated into the curriculum as a part of the defense program. She likes the students, knows many of them personally, interests herself in their out of school, as well as in school problems. Her valuable service to youth has been recognized off the campus as Well as on. Her influence has always been on the side of honesty, courage, tolerance, and understanding, on the side of conscientious and responsible Work, on the side of democracy, and the things which a democracy must have in its citizens if it is to endure. And to the class of June, 1942 she personifies these things completely. 15