University of Maine at Farmington - Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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GWLLYM R. ROBERTS Dean of Instruction All of us who are in this business of trying to prepare better teachers must stop every now and then to ask ourselves if we are doing the things which will best contribute to that goal. Assuming that we start with a group of college freshmen of excellent character and above-average intelli- gence, just what should they do at Farmington so that they will be ready to begin professional careers as teachers four years later? Years ago, thousands of students at this college recited certain mottoes day after day during their chapel exercises. Well-selected, those mottoes became a part of the minds of these students, to be remembered for years after graduation. One of those mottoes, usually given early in the year, was this: A school is as place where young people of any age come to- gether to educate themselves and each other, with the aid of the faculty. The pictures in thisyearbook show some of the ways in which students educate themselves and each other at F. S. T. C. In the activities here pictured, students grow in personality. They learn about people, they learn how to work with people, they increase skills Which, later, they can pass on to their students. Not as easy to picture are other qualities even more important which a student should develop at F. S. T. C. - sound scholarship and professional competence. The teacher must know something and must be able to pass on that knowledge and work to inspire a thirst for more knowledge in others. T If we planwell, our product should be a teacher: a real person of the best of character who knows people, likes them, can work with and inspire them, and who combines all this with a base of knowledge and professional skill. This is not an easily achieved goal, and it .is worthy of the best efforts of all of us. 9

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CLAYTON E. REED Director of Training Are You a Teacher? Do you help children to understand them- selves? Do you help them to manage their own experiences cooperatively, to find purposes and evaluate results? If you can answer aflirmatively, we are proud to call you - teacher. In the development of our country, there has never been a time when we needed teachers in our schools who can think, reiiect, and guide .chil- dren as we do today. It has been said that the true teacher helps us to think for ourselves in the new situations that may arisef, You, our new teachers, must face the responsi- bility of working in our communities with a firm conviction of helping our people to maintain faith and confidence in our public school system as an instrument whereby they, as individuals, can strengthen the moral a11d intellectual fibre of our children. Time has written a period in human annals but no new certainty in human affairs. . . Can you guide our children in understanding and developing the great art of happy living? The future holds a light of great opportunities, but the burdens are going to be greater, too. Are you willing to accept the challenge and be a great teacher? ce,- .. .W f IL' . -f.-.J rr, . . T i i- 1 if? ' 1 7 ' .,, , 1, ' ' 3 ' lu? ,H ' . . ' -wine -1 'Q 5.'.' Fi , :gig F . 'suv TI W 4 AT: 5-1 Q 2 .i . W MABEL A. HASTLE Director of Home Economics When Mr. Beaver Hrst looked you over as fresh- men in the fall of 1952, he prophesied, so he says, several things about you. Said he, That is one of the finest appearing classes Iive seen in a long time. They are keen and enthusiastic - they will go places. They are serious and earnest about this business of education - they will be eager beavers during their four years. They are young people who will gain knowledge, skills, Lmder- standings, attitudes, and appreciations that will prepare them to be good teachers of home and family livingf, Mr. Beaver was right about all his prophecies. Members of your class of 1956 have, in different degrees, accomplished all of these. And now, on behalf of your faculty friends, I would add our prophecy as you go forth as a teacher or homemaker or maybe as both. We prophesy you will grow in depth of pmpose, will use all your capabilities and resources in being imaginative, creative, productive, kind, and coura- geous. You will not keep yourself in a narrow path which becomes an uninteresting rut, but as you work with others, your paths will broaden, and life will grow deeper, finer, and more satisfy- ing as each year passes by.