University of Alberta Calgary - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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M. E. LAZERTE, M.A., Ph. D. Dean, Faculty of Education.

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£oe.uyiee i Q Ud Ok O+ijfi Catkicj . . . rT XHE 1947 issue of Evergreen and Gold, Calgary edition, was so attrac- tj ve anc j interesting I appreciate the invitation to contribute a mes¬ sage to that of 1948. You inherited a worthy tradition from The Chinook, the yearbook of the Calgary Normal School, and I know you will cultivate your inheritance worthily. In the same way, the University prizes its heritage of the Normal Schools, with all the opportunities and obligations they brought us. We prize especially the Calgary Normal School, as this opened the way to further development of higher education in the south of the province. The transfer to the University of direct responsibility for all teacher education in this province was a unique experiment. It has already attrac¬ ted favourable attention, and some other provinces are making tentative steps in the same direction. The full recognition of teaching as a learned profession, entitled to its own Faculty in the University, has enhanced the prestige of teaching. That, and some welcome improvement in salary trends, may account for the very encouraging increase we have noticed in the number of men entering the teacher-training course. We need the very best men and women working together in this key profession. Distance imposes some handicaps. I should like very much to have closer personal contact with the Calgary students. With many of you this contact is only postponed, as we expect you to come to Edmonton for part of your degree work. To the others, who are going directly from Calgary into school-teaching posts, I wish all success in your high calling. One needs Christian character to stand up to the almost frightening responsibility of school teaching. You will have children under your tut¬ elage at their most malleable period, and can profoundly influence their future and the future of fhis country by the way you mould them. Get all the education you can for this responsible job. Yours for training good citizens! ROBERT NEWTON, President. Page Five

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£ te uyiee i Cjold wozd j-xom ouz 2b s.an AT7CJT is nearly three years since the Calgary Branch of the Faculty of - ' Education was established. The 1945-46 session was little more than planned and under way when Mr. Manning ' s death deprived the Uni¬ versity of the devoted services of its first Director. Dr. Sansom ably served as Acting-Director until the end of the 1946-47 session when Mr. A. L. Doucette, your present Director, was appointed. Thanks to the co-operation of the staff and the willingness of the student body to study suggestions received, the liaison between the Edmonton and Calgary branches has im¬ proved continuously. Under Mr. Doucette ' s able administration, the desk is being cleared rapidly of the many problems that were yet unsolved when he assumed office. The second year of Education has been added to the curriculum avail¬ able at Calgary. Further extensions are likely to be approved for the ses¬ sion beginning in September, 1948. As the number of programs and the student enrolment increase the Education Undergraduate Society will be¬ come a part, though the major part, of a more comprehensive student or¬ ganization. Student Executive members should take every available oppor¬ tunity to draw together the student bodies of the Edmonton and the Calgary branches. I have in mind such action as sending Executive representatives from each branch to at least one major annual social function sponsored by the other group. I take this opportunity of congratulating Mr. Doucette on the able manner in which he is administering University affairs in Calgary. I wish to express appreciation of the work being done by all other colleagues on the Faculty of Education staff and on the part-time staff appointed by the Faculty of Arts and Science. Your Student Executive is to be congratulated for managing so effectively the business of the session. I trust that for every student the year ' s work has been truly educative and that whether you are now qualifying for a teacher ' s certificate or for admission to the second year of the degree program, your studies have given you some insight into a few problems of our profession and kindled an enthusiasm for teaching that will challenge your best effort now and lead on to a life-long interest in the improvement of teaching as a profession. M. E. LAZERTE, M.A., Ph. D., Dean, Faculty of Education. Page Seven