Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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N a limited sense, the 1954 CLIPPER records in picture and text our activities at Salem, however, in a broader sense it reveals much that can neither be seen nor read, save in individual memories. The unseen and unwritten value of this Annual lies in its perennial ability to open wide with each page that is turned, some half-closed door of memory, to clear some dim by-path of.our four years' journey, to revive ambitions, friendships, and mirthful recollections. We offer you these visible and invisible records in the hope that you may find them rewarding. XVe, the Centennial Seniors, look in two directions, casting a backward glance over the preface to the present and a forward glance to the future beyond Commencement Day. Looking to the past, we have selected 1854, 1876, the Eighteen-Eighties, and the so-called Gay Nineties as periods best illustrating the spirit of the century in which Salem was born and grew up. We look forward with a feeling of mingled pride and humility in our achieve- ments, but with the inevitable wistfulness that comes with the realization that we shall no longer gather as a group within her walls. Salem's walls bear the venerability of tradition. Age alone, however, does not add inches to the stature of a college, unless growth comes as a result of understanding, high ideals, and ordered progress, it is a mere mushroo-m growth. Colleges of mushroom growth do not survive to celebrate centennials. Salem has survived and grown in orderly fashion as successive years have slipped away, and generations of men and women in increasing numbers have gone forth to justify Salem's faith in them and to give proof of the superior training she offers. 'kirir In September, 1854, the State Normal School at Salem came into being as a result of the far-sighted vision, courage, and zeal of the founder of pioneer public schools for the training of teachers in the United States, Horace Mann. At that time, the schools dedicated to the training of teachers in the United States numbered but eight. The Salem school began its career with a faculty consisting of a principal, Dr. Richard Edwards an assistant M' M h K' , , iss art a ingman, and fewer than one hundred students. Since that time more than twelve thousand students have been enrolled, of whom approximately seven thousand have been grad- uated. The Centennial Class, numbering one hundred forty members, will be awarded the degree of Bachelo f S ' ' ' ' ' ' h fl 1 . u r o cience in Education, with specialization in t e e ds of Business, Junior High School, and Elementary Education. As one reviews the small b achievements of the past century. It is a striking example of the influence of gllorase Mann on thousapds of. young men and women who feel as he did that e e ucatorls gall-ing is the highest possible one in a republicf, Like him, they elftjf UPQI1 lf. vvlth the deepest awe and a sense of the highest responsibility, g a y relinquishing . . . honors, and wealth fo ' eginnings, he cannot help but be proud of the r its arduous and interesting duty.

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