Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE FOUNDED TROY, ALABAMA Public schools and colleges are maintained in modern times to assure continued improvement of society. The citizens are taxed and large sums are appropriated to schools and colleges. Millions of young people may tend to regard these opportunities as simply openings for achieving personal success. This way of looking at education is natural and legitimate, but is an incomplete view. If our state and country did not recognize the necessity for good citizens, there would be no public schools. If we felt no need for physicists, engineers, chemists, physicians, surgeons, agriculturists, and teachers, there would be no colleges supported by taxes on the people. It is not altogether because individuals want to enter such fields, that schools are set up; it is rather because our civilization would slip backward if individuals were not educated for them. Schools and colleges are supported at state expense in order that civilization may not only survive but move forward. We could not have won the last two wars had not our schools been at work for years pre- viously preparing men and women for many highly technical fields. Progress in modern times is impossible without education on a grand scale. C. B. Smith President

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DEDICATION We proudly dedicate this issue of the Palladium to y f N hub fi MISS MYRA SEGARS DR. CURREN FARMER Math Science Their untiring efforts in advising students and going of duty in their respective positions at Troy have given the campus and won for them the respect and admiration of a MISS LOUCILLE SAWTELL Asst. Registrar so far beyond the realm m a place of honor on the 1 the students.

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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE FOUNDED 1887 TROY, ALABAMA Dear Seniors of 1951: You are fortunate in being able to join the parade of educational progress at so opportune a time. In many respects the present century has witnessed more progress in education than did any other period in the past five thousand years of the history of civilization. I refer especially to progress in literacy, citizenship, and economic well-being. Today there is more literacy than ever before. Wherever we go, people can read, people of all races and all socio-econcmic levels. Literacy — a high level of literacy — is taken for granted. In the area of citizenship education we are making progress. At the local level we find education to be the means whereby the individual becomes better able to serve his community rather than to exploit his neighbors. At the world level, the best minds are endeavoring to develop a workable system for all citizens of the world. Today education is a means of making available to mankind the higest standard of living ever known. Education produces our scientists, tech- nicians, industrialists, and business men; education also makes better consumers out of citizens in general. Thus, the three areas of literacy, citizenship, and economic well- being exemplify the progress of education in our time. G. R.Boyd Dean