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Higher education is deemed necessary in present-day society be- cause it enables the individual to adjust to the dynamic world of which he is a part. During his formative years he may not only study the humanities and the natural and social sciences, but also achieve greater understanding of people, enabling him to know better the contemporary members of his society. While at college the individual may also find a joy and freedom of living which comes, to a certain degree, with independence, but more basically, I feel with an appre- ciation of the more important things life has to offer. He learns to give something of himself to each enterprise in which he is engaged. The teacher particularly must know himself best of all. Only by knowing himself can he expect to be capable of comprehending the actions of those around him. It logically follows that the person with the greatest human understanding will be the most successful educator. These attributes which I have mentioned cannot be completely acquired within the relatively short period of four years. A lifetime consumes us before all our goals can be realized. But we can move toward a goal in much less than a lifetime, in even the brief space of our particular college generation. Dorothy Jean Drewes, Editor 4
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ALBANY I.N.Y. Office OF THE PRESIOtNI To the Class of 1959 State University Teachers College at Plattsburgh A decade ago, steps were taken to give the people of New York State a state university. True, more than a century and a half earlier our first post-Revolutionary Legislature had passed an act to establish such a university, and even a century ago there was much agitation for a state university. It is equally true that the State had established a number of colleges such as your own college, which is about to end its seventieth year. But the year 1948 nonetheless marks the passage of the legislation actually creating the State University of New York, and the year 1949 was the date of its becoming an administrative entity. Because we like to mark off anniversaries in round numbers, it is appropriate that we take stock at the close of this first decade. Much, we can say with justice, has been accomplished. Many facilities have been added, and the approval by the voters at the 1957 election of our five-year capital program augurs the opening of many more buildings. Programs have been broadened, too, and strengthened - -as has the quality of the faculty and the student body. Our accreditation as a university in 1952 attests to some of these gains. Students, as well as the faculty, can join all of us in regarding such events with pride. At the same time, we cannot merely be content with what we may have achieved together. If we are to continue to provide enough opportunities for qualified young people, we must push on toward the vision of the great university which was in the minds of legislators and other forward-looking citizens in 1948. I hope that you as alumni of the State University of New York and one of its fine colleges always will give your support to your alma mater that she may not only continue to serve, but do so in even better fashion, those deserving young people who follow you to the doors of the university for the opportunity which lies inside. In congratulating you on your own achievements, I urge you also to help us go forward in our second decade as a university. William S. Carlson President
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