University of Montana Western - Chinook Yearbook (Dillon, MT)

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE This Chinook is different. All of them are—as varied as their years. You feel that 1941 is most unusual, not because of what has so far happened but because of the vague dread of what next year will be and the next. In facing present uncertainty, one pictures the serene security of a past when a reasonable tomorrow was taken for granted, but he who thus interprets the past is not speaking the language of those who lived in it. To them their days were puzzling and the future uncertain. Now we know that other Chinook makers' tomorrows, our todays, are not so terrible. We are here doing the best we can. We and our junior successors of tomorrow will carry on. If the world is in a mess, it will take all of us to get us all out. Being different in an awful future is what we make it. You will do your part. —SHELDON E. DAVIS

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IN THE dedication of this annual we honor one who has rendered invaluable service to students of the Montana State Normal College as a helpful, friendly instructor in fine arts and the sponsor of the Art Club and Kappa Pi. We pay tribute to one whose enthusiastic cooperation in producing decorations has been a meritorious contribution to the success of the annual May Fete. Those who received a copy of the 1938 Chinook will remember a hand-tinted picture, the work of this instructor and her Art Club members. In fact, she has graciously assisted whenever ability in fine arts has been required. We take pleasure in presenting this book to Mrs. Mary Baker Emerick.

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DEAN'S MESSAGE T HE past year has been an incentive to all those of us associated with our college. Students and faculty face the future confidently, knowing that we have gone a distance in achieving our goal for all students—development of a balance between academic success and group participation in student activities. We have founded an Alumni Association that is contributing genuine service. Our opportunities of today, no matter how insignificant they may seem to us now, are the great enterprises of the future. Charles W. Eliot has said, Have no fear of the future. It will take care of itself, if we take care of ourselves. If our purposes are worthy, we shall achieve success; and every effort we put forth today will bear its reward tomorrow. We may well remember Abraham Lincoln's words, I will study and get ready and maybe my chance will come. —ANNA MOSER.