University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Prepared to encounter the many problems facing education today, Oshkosh State Teachers College graduates this year confront a world of conflicting ideologies, and thus a world in which their job has become more important than ever before. To say that the years directly ahead will be, for the 1948 graduating class, years of complete vocational happiness would undoubtedly be an untruth, but they will be years of stimulating challenge when invigorating minds can be of invaluable service. Since termination of World War II there have been less than three years of unsteady peace. And already, during that time, the educations of the world have somehow apparently forgotten the death, immense suffering, and the loneliness of living caused during the grotesque years of the second great conflict of the Twentieth Century. Moreover, present teachings are aligning two schools of humanity, one against the other, when, instead, a firm foundation in peace, and a hope that it might at last become a permanent possession of Man in this atomic era, should be indelibly imbued in the minds and hearts of people everywhere. To prevent Man from self-inflicting his own greatest disaster is the gigantic, but not insurmountable, task ahead for those devoting themselves to the priceless job of shaping the minds of tomorrow. This year’s graduates have comprised an aggressive class, adequately equipped to meet and overcome the obstacles ahead. Those who remain behind offer sincere wishes for good luck and success — to members of the 1948 graduating class of Oshkosh State Teachers College. 26