University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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J. W. MAUCKER

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THE PRESIDENT' MESSAGE I have come to appreciate the opportunity which yearbook editors have af- forded me in recent years to say a few words regarding the nature of a college education in general and of our program at Teachers College in particular. But l must admit I was stumped when Dick Lieb informed me that the theme of the yearbook was to be The Road to Success. It seemed to call for a de- scription of a college education as a multi-lane turnpike, complete with clover leaves tand toll charges on entrance, of courseb providing an airline course straight to the city of lights and the pot of gold. And, of course, it is part of our American folklore that college is a magic path for many to ease, prestige, prefermentM we are characterized as a people by a11 overwhelming, and ofttimes none too critical, faith in education. Hut candor requires us to recognize that there is more than one road to almost any goal, that each of us must inevitably chart his own course from infancy to adulthood, that at best we travel the college highway for but a portion of our total journey. And we run immediately into the necessity of clarifying the meaning of the term 'tsuccessf' This is no place to-moralizeg sufficeth it to say that if our no- tion of success includes sufficient emphasis on development of maturity, enrich- ment of personality and service to others, then a college education, if it is worth its salt, should be relevant, should p1'ovide at least a portion of the road to that end. Even in college, of course, we take somewhat different. routes-scarcely two students follow exactly the same path. It is the conviction of the general faculty at Iowa. State Teachers College, however, that for at least a part of the way we ought to all travel the same road -hence the general education program requir- ing that in effect for one half of the four-mile journey to the BA, we all rub shoulders together, climbing the same hills, viewing the same horizons- learn- ing through common experience to know something of the countryside in which we shall live and of its inhabitants, especially its children andyouth. Though the roads we follow must inevitably separate as we leave the college highway, we hope this book will re-enforce our memories of that portion of the journey which we have taken together at Iowa State Teachers College. .um

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Dr. M. J. Nelson Dean of Facully gsm Dr. Daryl Pendergraff Curriculum Coordinafor Dr. Paul F. Bender Dean of Sfudenfs