Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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President' Message ln writing .1 message to the Senior Cla-,s l would like to request that you think with me concerning Salenfs past and Salenfs futui'c - your future. ln ISS-1 Salem Normal School was founded as a two-year normal school. The building still stands as a monument to the pioneers of teacher education in the United States. The old Normal School survived a terrible civil war that all but destroyed our great republic. ln 1896 the so-called New Normal School was constructed in South Salem at the corner of Loring Avenue and Lafayette Street. At the New Normal School, then the latest in buildings for teacher education, the curriculum was expanded to three years. New ideas in teacher education and practice were introduced. lfrom our present College building and Horace Mann Training School have gone forth to teach thousands of young people imbued with the spirit of service above self and with faith in the meaning of the college motto, Progredi . As students at Salem you have seen the college curriculum and physical plant begin to grow further to meet new demands of the changing world of education. Before the next college year becomes history, the long-awaited new construction will become a functional part of the College. During your college years you dreamed of its advent to meet the great need especially in facilities of the library, gymnasium, auditorium and cafeteria. You shared with the administration the pleasure of seeing construction begun, and into your memo- ries will go the picture of cement and structural steel in the Spring of 1958. You are most heartily invited to return to the College often to use its facilities as alumni, in educational advancement and in social affairs. In completing four years of study for the degree of bachelor of science in education you have taken the first step into the field of teaching. Now that you have begun the quest for knowledge let it be a life-long endeavorg throughout your professional life give your best efforts to your work and seek always to deepen and increase your knowledge. Daniel W'ebster gave an eloquent description of the great privilege of being a teacher, when he said in Boston in 1852, If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of fellow man, we engrave upon those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ln behalf of the College and the entire staff may I express the wish that your efforts in the great romance of teaching brighten and brighten to all eternity. Sincerely yours, M

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