Seattle Pacific University - Tawashi Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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fMm The Cascade Valborg Stavney Marian Mills Melba Stephens Lora Crawford Mrs. Tressa Woodruff Cleo Madden Mildred Orr Lois Samuelson Myron Williams Blanche Weiler Clara Clancy Mrs. Maud Gernaey Mrs. Pearle Martin Mrs. Leota Walter Page Twenty-six

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The Cascade THE NORMAL DEPARTMENT iCr T ' HE standards which teachers are required to maintain are continually rising. Their work takes on a new dignity. It is rising above a calling, above a profession, into a realm of an art. It must be dignified by technical training, ennobled by character, and sanctified by faith. It is not too much to say that the need of civilization is the need of teachers. The contributions which they make to human welfare are beyond estimation.” Calvin Coolidge The Normal Department of Seattle Pacific College was organized in 1921-22. In 1922-23, on application, accreditation was granted. The first students to graduate from the department were Loretta Pettingill and Elmer ' Root. They were later married and went to India, where the Normal training began to function at once. The first class to graduate under accreditation numbered thirteen. Eight of this number are married and thirteen are teaching. During the span of the department one hundred and twelve have been graduated. This does not include the class of 1928, which numbers over thirty. Of the one hundred and twelve graduates, sixty-two are teaching, distributed over eight states; forty-six of the number are teaching in the State of Washington, and be it said to their credit, not a failure has been recorded, but on the contrary, their work has been very highly commended by their various superintendents and principals. Thirteen of the former graduates, believing in the growing standards of teachers, are continuing in College to complete work for an A. B. degree. All of this is an effective piece of advertising for the Normal Department of Seattle Pacific College. “If teachers do not do their work well, this republic will not outlast the span of a generation. — Theodore Roosevelt. Page Twen.ly-fi.ve ,

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T H.E C A S C A D E Mrs. Celia Helwig Irene Willson Borghild Sorensen Helen Lowe Beryl Plowman Evelyn Howell Irma Vandever Henry Wilson Cora Redding Sybil Claussen Ruth Elkins Kathryn Devers Olive Bisnett Eileen English Elva Shoemaker Page Twenty-seven ..