SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Greetings to Dr. Ward THE Class of 19 54 is honored to have been the first senior class of the Pittsburgh State Normal School to know Dr. Charles C. Ward. During our short year together, we have appre- ciated his kindness and his faithful efforts for our success.

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Greetings and Reply to Dedication To the Class of 1934: Your graduation is at hand. I congratulate you on that fact, but more especially do I commend the unusual merit and distinction which you have shown in all phases of your school ' s life during the past three years. These years have been filled for the most part with your efforts to acquire certain knowledge and skill, all designed to fit you for service as a teacher. But there is something more than mere professional skill necessary to be a real artisan in any field. A man may acquire almost a perfect skill in manipulating a machine or device, but without a genuine interest in the work he is doing, a thorough knowledge and appreciation of the materials he works with and the results sought for, a wholesome and loyal affection for his fellow-workers, he will always remain just a machine-hand; never will he become a genuine craftsman. John Ruskin once said. When love and skill work together expect a master- piece. Real success in teaching is as much a matter of heart as of head. With- out the heart interest no masterpiece was ever wrought, nor can it be. Like all other fields of endeavor, the teaching profe ssion has far too many machine- hands; too few creative artisans. It is for you to choose which you will be. but if my rather close association with you has not clouded my prophetic vision, your future will be hall-marked to an exceptional degree. I deeply appreciate the genuine good-fellowship which it has been mine to enjoy at your hands during these years just ending. Because of you the past three years have been lifted for me a little above the average, the ordinary, and the common. If it be true that a pleasant memory is a thing of gold. then have I received from you a rich legacy indeed, and shall be forever in your debt. To be the recipient of your final act of good will, the dedication of THE CARDINAL, adds just one more nugget to the golden hoard.

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Greetings from Dr. Ward The 1934 CARDINAL contains the annals of the first Plattsburgh Senior Class which is known to me personally. Because of this, your year book has especial significance to me, not alone for its record of your achievement and of your aspirations but also because it commemorates a group whose good-will and kindliness have helped immeasurably in the education of the Freshman principal. Your loyalty and your willingness to share largely in our common effort to perpetuate the fine traditions and idealism of your Alma Mater have won for you an honorable place which the years cannot efface. Because I have come to know you in this way, I can predict for you that richness of living which is the meaning of life itself. In your professional service I can promise you that intangible satisfaction which is more permanent than all other values. It is more permanent because it comes only from the realization of having given self that the children of today and the citizens of tomorrow may live more completely. To this end your school is dedicated and for this purpose you are destined. For its realization all our good wishes together with our services go with you.