Rowan College - Oak Yearbook (Glassboro, NJ)

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DEDICATION PARTHENIA VANDERMARK Loyalty, Our Counselor, Vitality, Enthusiasm . . . these words are hut a thimbelful of those we might use to describe our adviser, Parthenia Q. VanderMark. To you, Miss VanderMark, we dedicate this yearbook. To you, because of your guidance through our four years at Glassboro. These four years, at times, seemed so eternally long when we were deluged with work, exams, and problems. Long, yes — but how much shorter those days seemed when we would hear Aunt Parthy say, Don ' t worry! Everything will be all right. Loyalty — There could never be one more loyal to us than you have been. Miss VanderMark. Loyal in every respect. Our Counselor . . . Whenever we needed guidance we knew to whom we could go — coimselor in academic and personal problems. Vitality . . . Never have we seen you. Miss VanderMark, when you haven ' t been filled with vitality, never too tired to accept more responsibility. Enthusiasm . . . Our every idea and plan you have accepted with enthusiasm. Combining these words: L-Loyalty, O-Our Counselor, V-Vitality, E-Enthu- siasm, we see LOVE. That, Miss VanderMark, is what we have for you. Although we may not have shown it, when we search our liearts we all know it is there. Yes, love, and it is for you, our adviser. Four

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THOMAS E. ROBINSON Glassboro State Teachers College has tried to be for each of you a bridge. One end was buttressed upon the desire you expressed when you entered — to teach in the schools of New Jersey. The other end has been established upon the threshold of the classrooms in which you will eventually teach. If the bridge has been wisely and firmly built, as we believe it has been, you will step confidently and successfully through the classroom thresholds into careers which will supply you with much personal satisfaction -and will simultaneously help produce a better life for the next generation. Some day you will see more clearly the strands which have gone into the making of the bridge. The strands perhaps are now too intertwined to be easy of identification. Yet among them are certainly the talented teachings of a dedicated faculty, the joyous associations with friendly class- mates, the character-forming traditions of a growing institution; the pleasures, strivings, disappointments, and triumphs of four years of living— all colored with mutual true respect and affection one for the other. As you have builded yourselves into Glassboro, so Glassboro has tried to build itself into you. Your future lives will show that the deep confidence that we have in you is justified. Six