SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Our President

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« PRESENTED BY JUNIOR CLH55 Sditor -Qertrudc harper cAssistant Sditor- ' Kelen IB. Barrett business c tianager-SDoris cArmbruster

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(Cardinal Rightly the 1946 CARDINAL is dedicated to the task which lies ahead. Truly, the teacher must assume a first obligation in the comple- tion of this task. We know what we want — justice and opportunity for all people. V( ' c know how to attain this purpose and the price we must pay — a dedication of self in service as teachers and as citizens. We know also that if we attain these ends, a peace universal, that hope of all the world, will be assured. As yet we do not know how to banish that fear and distrust, that selfishness and hatred, which through all time have made justice and peace impossible. These are the tragedies of life which in the past have separated peoples and nations. Throughout the ages, men of good will have envisioned a universal brotherhood and a universal peace. They have hoped for a true parlia- ment of man, a Utopia made possible through our better selves. As yet the task is incomplete. It has happened that, in our own generation, there has come to us in America a challenge to leadership such as no other people has been privi- leged to accept and undertake. We are a powerful people in every ma- terial sense — we have untold resources, unlimited possibilities. We have law based upon the rights and duties of man. We have an intellectual and spiritual heritage and treasure with which to make a living reality of this vision of the ages. What we do with this challenge, no one can yet predict. The task cannot be done except as individuals such as you and 1 dedicate ourselves to the task. In our own college, I firmly believe, we have made a beginning in our relationships one with another. The theme which you have chosen for the CARDINAL indicates an awareness of our national opportunity and ob ' igation. In our daily association we have learned, in part, to give and take in the achievement of a common purpose. We have come to know how to live together, and that the whole is greater than its parts. In this business of our daily association we take part in many activities; we de- velop many interests not found in the formal curriculum. We have caught something of the unseen purpose of living; we have seen a little of the light that never was ; we have gazed for a moment on that most distant horizon. In a sense the 1946 CARDINAL is a culmination of our hopes and aspirations. It mirrors, even if briefly, the challenge which comes to every teacher in our nation. The highest labor of all of us is to sec this task a little nearer completion through the vision, the effort, and the sacrifice of our students of today — the teachers of the future. Charles C. Ward • 5 ' ZO Q TL