Rowan College - Oak Yearbook (Glassboro, NJ)

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The stately oak, as it grows year after year, adds rings to its mighty trunk. Its rings show- its age, but even more important, they tell of the growth of the tree. Some years are too try- ing for even the sturdy oak to show much growth. Other years provide it with quantities of the materials which are necessary for its very existence. Nevertheless, the oak keeps growing and adding rings, whether those of hardship and want, or those of ease and abun- dance. The oak accepts its lot — it becomes mightier and more wonderful as the years progress. As each class is graduated from the New Jer- sey State Teachers College at Glassboro, a new ring is added to the story of the college. There are twenty-nine rings in the story — twenty-nine classes have been graduated so

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APPRECIATION Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This quotation, we feel, has been the standard that has guided our Registrar throughout her term of service at Glassboro. Energetic, sympathetic, and always willing to lend a helping hand — these characterize our own Miss Grace Bagg. Such service cannot and should not go unnoticed, because we know that these qualities in our Registrar are lasting ones. Therefore, the Class of 1942 takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to her for what she is doing. TRIBUTE I ' d like to write a poem That all the world would heed — ■ To bring about a lasting peace, Our old earth ' s sorest need. I was afraid I was slipping, but I ' m not. I sold this poem. These words were happily exclaimed by Mrs. Sarah M. Smith as she held in her hand a check from the Philadelphia Record for the use of her poem. A few days later, on September 18, 1941, our perennial Co-ed left those who knew and loved her at Glassboro. This space is a tribute to that spirit of perse- verance that was Mrs. Smith ' s.

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far. The class of nineteen hundred and forty- two will take its place with other classes grad- uated from the college. It will be the thirtieth ring in the growth of the college. An analogy may be drawn between the oak and the thirtieth class at Glassboro. In many respects the two are not alike, but in others a marked relationship is readily seen. Like the oak, the class of nineteen hundred » and forty-two has grown in the years since its inception — not in size, but in experience. Like the oak, the class of nineteen hundred and forty-two has learned to accept the fat and the lean, the easy and the hard, the joy and sor- row which the years have brought. Like the oak, the class of nineteen hundred and forty- two has recorded its growth. The class of nineteen hundred and forty-two presents its record in words and pictures —