Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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AHVS 7 'Cdl' 13 f!0f I 928 Success in the business of being a teacher centers around .1 pleasing personality, e a personality that is conducive to friendliness both in school and out of school. Being Ll teacher does not mean being Ll f.lSlilllLlliCl', being strict does not mean being stringentg being iirm does not mean being obsti11.1teg being critical does not mean being faulttindingg being methodical dues not mean being mechanical, A teacher can secure as much order and industry in a Cl.lSSl'OUlll Cl1.1l'.lCICl'lZCLl bv .1 responsible free- dom, by contentment, and by cheer, as in one where Pupils are afraid, inhibited, and repulsed. To summarize: The ideal teacher is genuinely enthusiastic, optimistic, patient, encouraging, and resourceful. She teaches because she loves the teacher's task, and finds her richest prize in eves that open and in minds that ask, At all times she shows fairness and self-control, good-humor, pluck, and patience in the race. Such is the teacher we should resolve to be. E. S. The primary function of our school is to receive youth in an atmosphere ofbroad and varied associations, in contact with wise and noble lives, and to offer them such experience in evoking manhood and capacity, and such knowledge of man, nature, and spirit that they shall gain power to enter into life with character, intelligence and enthusiasm. 1 ll XX lf! ffl' Q5 '75 xx 0 . ll ef.,f WI 1 ya , ,g.,',, . M , 1 I I U X 11 ' 'l V , Hg 11 , ,g1. f ,,Mpf!,, e,s.2,fg X' P 22

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SZVS TQGIZI' 7300! I 928 We, the members of the class of 1928, desire to be artists in our chosen field. Some of us will reach the goal. Some of us will be constant students ofthe new and adapt to ourselves the suggestions that will make us masters of the technique of teaching. We shall at the same time enrich and ennoble our lives by our association with what we believe to be good, we shall share our untold riches and make life nobler and finer for those who come to us. May the Salem Normal School record among its annals many artists from the class of 1928. A. F. C. THE BUSINESS OF BEING A TEACHER When we consider what an important part education plays in the life of every individual and how fundamental it is in every phase of the business and social world, the attitude of the general public towards the teaching profession requires some explanation. Many people think of teachers as precise persons who exist merely to rule in the classroom, who lack the desirable characteristics of understanding and sympathy, of humor and sociability. Teachers are looked upon as people to admire and respect, but not as creatures with a warm friendly spirit. The reason for the prevailing attitude may be attributed to many causes, but the principal one centers around the teacher herself. After a few years of schoolroom teaching, she allows herself to lose the enthusiasm and vigor with which she started her career. She becomes pedantic, critical, and self-centered. Consciously or un- consciously, she acquires characteristics which stamp her as a school ma'am. Little by little she withdraws from outside interests and lives within her own small sphere. Instead of broadening her mental horizon by varying her activities and by making new associations she allows her world to become encompassed by the school- room walls. To her the days become one monotonous round of lessons, papers, as- signments, and discipline. She misses the joy of awakening a latent talent, of leading alert minds to new discoveries, of instilling Cby example rather than by wordb prin- ciples of gentle courtesy and of noble character, of satisfying the inexhaustible curiosity of expanding interests, and of visioning the future of each individual, pre- paring him to face it stronger in mind and in body. Perhaps the difficulty is that the teacher has never put her profession on a business basis. She has yet to learn that in justice to herself and her pupils, she must cultivate leisure interests that will provide her with the necessary physical and mental relaxa- tion. A frequent tendency of the teacher is to carry a classroom attitude into social life. As this attitude is too often unnecessarily reserved and formal, it makes the attendant environment strained and unnatural. 21

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SNS 7 'mr we I 928 THE ORANGE AND THE MKNVN 'I'1n1v.' Orange and the Black ln the quaint old town of Salem There's a dear old Normal School, Where loyalty's the watchwortl And sympathy's the rule. We will own no other better, No one shall put her down, While we can stand defenders Of the Orange and the Brown. We will own no other better, No one shall put her down, While we Can stand defenders Of the Orange and the Brown. Through the happy years at Normal ln the rooms we loved so well, With the friends we niet and cherished, There a charm upon us fell. Oh, that charm can never perish, We feel it still when we Far from Salem are a-wand'ring, And look back in Memory. ORANGE Tznze: Land where thy banners Dear Salem Normal, thy light ever glows, Bright is thy color, our aims to disclose. Loyal are We, may this thought be our rule, Knowledge shall shine from our dear Normal School. See orange shields as we raise them on high, See orange pennants against the blue sky, These are our banners, the symbols of light Orange, our color, no darkness nor night. 3 Keep your lamps burning and ever aglow, Pure is the light Salem Normalites throw. Beams of intelligence others may see, Wisdom and learning, yes, Orange for me. 23