University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Horizon / Iris Yearbook (Stevens Point, WI)

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The Class of 1930 Counted timewise, your graduation from high school and your entrance to college are matters of hut yesterday. Growthwise, however, your life has infinitely changed. For college makes a difference, doesn’t it? Even your professors, who, because they have steadily followed you so closely and interestedly, would lx loss likely to note marked changes, are well aware that something has happened to that “September Freshman.” Perhaps that “something cannot be analyzed or defined. But there it is, clear in its unconscious power, unfathomed in its social implications, irresistible in its eventual impact upon life. In each of you it is different; yet its likenesses exceed its differences. In a sense your personality is a gift. From centuries back your ancestors have passed it on to you. Again, each classmate, friend, or teacher, to a greater or less degree, has shaped it by his touch. The sun of the heaven, the wind, the rain have marked it thus and so. But in a larger sense still, you have bought and paid for it. For after all, your own use of inherited capacity, your own appropriation of the qualities of classmate, friend, or teacher, your own response to sun and wind and rain—these have made you what you are. Your own ambitions, longings, ideals, purposes, quietly or boldly assertive, have carved and will always carve the facets of your soul. In such of these as She has had a share in shaping—and who will say that they are few?—Alma Mater takes happy pride. She ho| es to be permitted to exert a continuing, beneficent, and challenging influence as She strives to contribute to your professional growth and progress. This is a joyous privilege She would never willingly forego. Confident is She that your thoughts in gratitude will often “turn again, and fondly, To thy best traditions true, Central, Queen of all Wisconsin, Alma Mater, back to you,n Pot mhlttn 30

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To the Students of the Cent ml Wisconsin State Teachers College: No institution, whether school, city, state or nation, ever accomplished the desired results or achieved success except through the personnel of its members or citizenship. You, the students of the Central Wisconsin State Teachers College, hold the destiny of this school in your hands: through your actions and activities you will grow and increase in numlier and in accomplishment, or fail to attain the desired end. Co-operation is a word that has t cen much used and greatly abused in recent years. To some, co-operation means simply doing the thing that is desired, expected or required—to others, it means the giving of every effort, the exhausting of every resource, and the doing of the utmost at all times. There is a vast difference between ordinary co-operation and enthusiastic co-operation. Let us appreciate our opportunity; bear in mind our obligations; and join in a whole-hearted, enthusiastic co-operative effort for a letter and more successful school. W. E. Atwkll, Resident Regent. 19 Pat ittrnlrtn 30

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