Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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. U ,VT y, yy .xx I , Q, .2 - s . 2 - I . 1 a -f..,,,,, 5 Q -gf DR. KENNETH A. BROWNE, Dean of lnsfrucfion Towson graduaTes oT I963, as you read and re-read your TOWER ECHOES, you may say To yourselves, amid Teelings oT nosTalgia, Those years aT Towson were The besr years oT my liTe. You are graTeTul Tor The ioys oT sTudenT liTe, The rewarding Tour years OT menTal labor, ancl The opporTuniTies now unTolding To you. You Tace The TuTure wiTh a biT oT TrepidaTion alThough you realize ThaT you have 'lcome a long way since Treshman days and are now well prepared Tor your vocaTional responsibiliTies, As one who has Traveled a iourney yeT uncharTed Tor mosT oT you, l suggesT ThaT These Tour years aT Towson were buT prelude To a hosT oT inTriguing liTe experiences made possible in parT by your sTudenT days. My own life aT Towson, Tor example, has exceeded yours ThreeTold and has Tollowed Two decades OT Teaching ancl ad- minisTraTion in oTher schools and colleges. My undergraduaTe days were happy ones, in reTrospecT, as I TrusT as yours were. BuT my years aT Towson, builT upon varied experiences in The vocaTion mosT OT you have chosen, sTand ouT as The mosT meaningTully saTisTying OT all. Moreover, l loolc Torward To many more years, nexT aT The Towson OT Nebraska. oT working wiTh sTuclenTs and TaculTy members. Look ahead, Towson sTudenTs and graduaTes, and invesT The opening oT your career SO ThaT YOU will SHTOY The lasT oT liTe Tor which The TirsT was made. The sTudenTs of Towson STaTe Teachers College wish Dean Browne success in his new career aT Nebraska STaTe Teachers College as regisTrar and admissions clirecTor.

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,PRESIDENT S MESSAGE fo the Class of 1963 Your gradualion lhis year is noi only a memorable one for you: il is a memorable one in lhe hisfory of our College. Your class is ihe lasi fo graduale from Towson Sfale Teachers College, iurure classes will receive diplomas from Towson Siaie College. lvlosl oi you will be serving in Jrhe public schools nex'r year. Regardless of lhe College's change in name, lhe greai maiorily of nexi year's gradua- ling class will also be gradualing as prospeciive Teachers. Bui, increasingly, larger numbers will be inreresied in oiher professions, olher employmenl opporluniiies. During ihe coming decades our College will noi only be able l'o offer a more diversified program io prospecfive ieachers buf io olher s'ruden'rs as well. As you reiurn in ihe iulure for Homecoming or Alumni Day, you will find new buildings, new programs, an expanded campus. We hope lo coniinue, however, ihe iniormal, friendly aimosphere Thai has characler- ized Towson Jrhrough ihe years, as we pass, nexi fall, lhe Two-lhousand marlc in enrollmenl' and head foward an enrollmenl ol 'rhree ihousand in +he nor Too dislanl iurure. I would remind you 'rhal no mailer whar advanced programs you may pursue land l hope 'rhal many oi you willl you will s+ill have one basic Alma Maier-Towson Slale-an Alma lvlaler we hope you will walch wirh pride and aiieclion as ii expands ils services and eniers on a new era wiih a new name and a new Board of Conirol. And we ai The College shall waich wilh pride and aileclion as you, l'he members of lhe Class oi I963, leave our halls of ivy and enier a new and ever more challenging environmeni. lvly very besi wishes 'ro each one of you.

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NI' 11 'S ft, . . X: I ZX I'- DR. ORRIELLE MURPHY, Dean of Sfudenfs Greefings To each si'uden+ a+ +he Sfalre Teachers College ai' Towson! The I962-63 TOWER ECHOES marks 'rhe las'r issue bearing fhis name of The colleges We have had a renowned hisfory, firsl' as a Mary- land Srale Normal School 'From IS66 +o l935, and lhen as fhe Slaie Teachers College ai' Towson from l935 +o I963. Wifh The end of +he currenl year we become Towson Sfale College and embark on a new period of growlh as a mulli-purpose ins+ilu+ion. When we celebra+e our one hundredlh anniversary 'fhree years hence, we shall indeed be greafly changed from fhe beginning days of 1866. Symbolic of 'rhe change is fhe kind of furniiure recenlly inslalled in 'rhe Lida Lee Tall Audilorium conlrasfed wilh +he Slephens Hall and Chapel benches upon which lhe normal school sfudenls lirsf sa+ as +hey aHended con- vocaiion. ln spife of changes in name, of expansion of purpose. of enlarged faciliiies. sfudenl body and faculfy, lhe ullimale purpose remains cons+an+-lo provide +he bes+ possible kind of higher educalion for young Maryland men and women. ln +he words of John Henry Newman, a universify is a place for +he com- municalion and circulafion of 'rhoughi' by means of personal in'rercourse. May we always hold +o our purpose.