University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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iDuhes of tl)e Alumni HROUGHOUT the entire twenty-nine years of its existence, the Alumni Association has been an active and helpful factor in the progress of the Institution. The work which the alumni of the Institution have set themselves to, is the development of a State University second to none. This is a great and praiseworthy task. The college man has exceptional opportunities to enjoy and appre- ciate the more worthy pleasures of life. His training fits him to stand in the front rank of his fellows morally, mentally and physically. There are but a comparatively few who may receive this distinguishing training which the nation and state has provided. However, with these greater opportunities for success and pleasure that are conferred by a college degree, come in direct proportion, greater responsibilities. It is expected of the college graduate that his personal and business life shall be above reproach and that his insight into the problems of life shall be clear and more certain. It is not enough that he be a successful and honest business man ; he should be also an active and intelligent citizen, losing no opportunity to advance the well-being and economic welfare of his community and state. The alumni, appreciating the opportunities they have had, with the desire to do the State the service which they owe, and realizing that Maryland has practically the most inadequately equipped state university in this country, are giving their efforts to the betterment of the Institution that the educational facilities of the State may meet the needs of the people. Former efforts have not been in vain, as one can readily see by the steady growth of the Institution; however, the work towards the goal is far from being completed. The added impetus of the new alumni is not only needed and desired, but depended upon in order that the work so well begun shall be successfully completed. Nor does an alumnus ' duty stop here. He must take a personal, direct and in- telligent interest in the work of the University. He must see that it is doing its work well and thoroughly and in a manner that will fit her sons morally, mentally and physically to be strong citizens. The influence of the alumni upon the student body should be constructively critical, helpful and progressive. And by this means aid the development of a deep spirit of unselfishness and patriotism. Can the present alumni and the coming alumni of the Class of Nineteen-Twenty- two do anything more worth while, anything which will appeal more stirringly to each and all of us, than to lend their best efforts to see that the State provides for our suc- cessors, our children, and their children, the facilities it never provided for us? Ten

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Samuel yU, SljocmaKer United States Senator once said that a man ' s real worth to his state usually can be gauged by noting the number of people who call him by his first name. That probably is why Sam Shoemaker is so well known to Maryland people generally and to those interested in Agriculture in par- ?9 g ticular. And certainly, under the premise set forth by the honored Sena- l ' V tor Mr. Shoemaker should be known as Sam to every alumnus, student, and member of the faculty of the University of Maryland ; surely, the University has not had a greater influence in its development. Born in Baltimore December 7th, 1861, Samuel M. Shoemaker obtained his early education in the private schools of Baltimore and New Haven, Conn., and graduated from Princeton with the class of ' 83. Mr. Shoemaker came back to Maryland and since has been a great constructive force in the affairs of the State. He has a big dairy farm in Baltimore County and as a farmer has been actively interested in the develop- ment of all things agricultural. He has been a member of the Maryland State Roads Commission and was secretary of the Committee which drafted the State Aid Roads Law. Mr. Shoemaker is President of the Board of Education of Baltimore County and an officer in several National and State Agricultural Organizations. He is Chair- man of the Board of Regents of the State University, very fittingly, because it was he who took the reins in 1916 and directed the reorganization of the old Maryland Agri- cultural College into the Maryland State College and in 1920 was a leader in effecting the amalgamation which turned over the property of the old University of Maryland to the Maryland State College and gave to Maryland a State University. The Board of Regents also functions as the State Board of Agriculture. But it is useless to try to tell in this small space all the fine things that he has done ; suffice to say here that while we cannot in words give Mr. Shoemaker full credit for all his accomplishments for the public good, we hope to show by dedicating to him this book just a little of our appreciation of what he has done for the University of Maryland. Nine

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