Snow College - Snowonian Yearbook (Ephraim, UT)

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M. H. KNUDSEN President of Snow L. It. ANDERSON President of Executive Committee A Challenge Education is being criticised today because men have lost their perspective. Is this criticism justified? What can we do about it? Drowning men grasp at straws, because they lose their perspective. They arc enveloped up to their eyes and the water often blurs the sight so they can’t sec clearly even a short distance away. What will keep the U. S. A. on a steady keel? It will be to keep essentials sharply defined from the non-essentials. In this bi-centennial year it is well to keep the words of Washington uppermost because they have proven the test of nearly one hundred and fifty years. Education alone can save our government and its people, because we must have an intelligent citizenry. I am looking to the leadership of Snow College students to place the emphasis on life where it rightly belongs. What arc essentials und what arc non-essentials? We all have faith in eternal life and further more, we believe that today is one day of that eternal life. Today we prepare ourselves for the tomorrow. Our progress toward the final realization of Truth will depend upon how we put into practice what we have already learned. If we cease to place the right emphasis on the right kind of education, our republic is doomed. Will you students of Snow College accept this challenge—Carry the Torch of Education and thus save our country. M. H. KNUDSEN. His Message Snow College as a Church Institution terminates with the current school year. 'Die change is no doubt at an opportune time in view of the new policy. of religious administration retiring from secular education. Naturally. we feel regrets, but more fully realize to what extent the church deserves our gratitude for giving us Snow College—for giving us advantages and opportunities of learning, otherwise impossible. Our spiritual guidance has always been one of progress. The history of this college has more than justified the vision of its inspired Founders. In the affairs of men. the Alumni of Snow take high places religiously and civically. We have faith that such u heritage will prove of untold value. Therefore. as a State Institution a glorious destiny awaits in enriching the leadership of a great and growing commonwealth. God bless the future Snow College! L. R. ANDERSON. Executive Committee L. R. ANDERSON. Chairman N. E. NOYES DR. A. J. NIELSON SOREN M. NIELSON A. B. MADSEN M. H. KNUDSEN. Secretary Won’t you be sorry about school closing? The work and play have been enjoyable. Once a Snow student, always a Snow booster. Pac-rt Four

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HERE WE PLAYED TOGETHER Administration Changes When Snow opens its doors for registration next September 19 und 20. it will be the one junior college of the State of Utah. The transfer of administration from church to state will formally occur July 1, as provided by H. B. 101. The State Board of Education will constitute the board for the college und will largely formulate its policies. The board, however, has been active already in making plans for next year. The course of study has been formulated; the policies of the school defined; the catalogue written; the faculty employed, and details of operation are rapidly being organized. Aside from the diminution of religious training, however, there are to be but few major changes. Some courses arc to be added: others, modified, but the curriculum will remain essentially the same. The standards of scholarship and conduct are to remain the same. The present student body organization is unimpaired. Within the Stale Board there has been organized an Executive Committee of Snow College. It consists of C. N. Jensen as chairman, George A. Eaton. John C. Swenson and Joshua Greenwood. This committee has direct responsibility in formulating slate policies for the college. All this committee except John C. Swenson are from Salt Lake City; Professor Swenson is from Provo. Other members of the Board are George Thomas, president of the University of Utah: Elmer G. Peterson, president of the Utah State Agricultural College; Miss Kate Williams of Salt Lake City. J. M. MacFarlanc of Cedar City, C. A. Robertson of Moab and Secretary A. C. Matheson of Salt Lake City. The records of the members of the Board disclose years of service in fostering the educational interest of the State. Under its new administration, it is certain that Snow will continue to grow as it has done during its previous forty-four years. Snow Fully Accredited Snow is a fully accredited junior college. For years, because of its high scholastic standards, its credits have been accepted at senior colleges and by the State Department of Education. The recent action of the Northwestern Accrediting Association of high schools and institutions of higher learning is a formal recognition that enrolls Snow among the standard schools of America. There is no higher authority than the state and the approval of Utah will be formally placed upon Snow credits as a junior callcgc next school year. The recognition of being an accredited institution means that Snow's credits will be accepted for teacher certification in any of the western states that do not have a residence requirement, provided the kind of credits presented satisfies the state requirement for certification. Rcognition means also that Snow credits will be accepted either as required subjects or as electives, and at face value, in the senior colleges of the land. Prerequisites in such highly specialized fields as medicine, law. and engineering may be satisfied here. For some time this school has been recognized as a pre-medic institution. Students who have chosen their fields, and who choose their courses in harmony with the requirements of their fields, can find no difficulty in having their credits accepted. Accrediting places a stamp of approval on the quality of credits and leaves only the problem found in any college, that of selecting the subjects that satisfy the demands of the various occupations. Page Three

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JOSEPH F. MERRILL Commissioner of Education A Word of Appreciation All friends of Snow College will rejoice greatly that the college Is to continue, that the impending change is a transfer and not a closing. But from another point of view, even a closing would not mean the end of the college, for as long as memory lasts. Snow College will continue to live in the minds and hearts of its loyal sons and daughters. Death is pronounced only upon things of the earth, not upon things spiritual—the things characteristic of the Snow spirit. But the college is to continue and its doors will still swing open to the fine type of young men and women who have entered in the past. This fact is a source of joy to us all. For the good work that Snow has done during each of its years under church auspices, for the loyalty of its officers and teachers to the finest of educational ideals, for the ready responsiveness the students have always shown to the requirements of the college, the General Board of Education is deeply appreciative. Snow passes to public auspices with the best wishes and blessings of the General Board. JOS. F. MERRILL. College delights in revealing how little students really know. John C. Swenson of the State Board of Education was a campus caller Friday. DR. C. N. JENSEN State Superintendent of Public Instruction An Appreciation The institution which by provision of law is now designated as Snow College has been operating since 1888. Forty odd years is a sufficiently long period to permit of the establishment of a number of fine traditions. We shall mention but one in this very brief article. The college has always been exceptionally careful to ascertain the needs of the people it has had to serve and it has been equally careful in planning its work to meet these needs. Largely as a result of this policy its graduates have gone into the schools of the state equipped to give intelligent and needed service right from the start. It has been the exception, not the rule, for a district to wait for the graduate to pass through a more or less extended probationary or experimental period before receiving good work from the beginning teacher. To give the best possible service to the communities, it serves has become a fine tradition of the Snow College. The recent action of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools in placing the college on its accredited list of junior colleges is evidence of creditable standing, brought about by a long continued progressive policy. Let us hope that under state control the college may continue on in its good work. DR. C. N. JENSEN. There is no other place like Snow. Isn't it friendly, democratic, challenging? Page Five