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

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PRESIDENT Beginning Life at Forty is the stimulating thought which inspires your Alma Mater as she sends her graduates forth to begin their life’s work at this commencement time. Every year for forty years your College has renewed her life by means of her graduating classes. The traditions and ideals which have been developed in these forty years are the background of its history, but the life of the institution continues in the successful activities of its graduates. Into your hands, class of 1934, as it has placed into the hands of the classes who have gone before, your college places its destiny. Not what it has done in the forty years that have gone, but what you may do in the years to come is of supreme importance. What this college will be forty years from now will depend upon the character and success of the young men and women whose lives have been affected by the years spent in its study halls. Not the past, but the future is significant. The past is gone, the future is yours,- yours, to make what you will of it. To you the torch is given. Yours sincerely,

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I Central State Teachers College is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year The entire plan of the 1934 Iris is designed to bring that fact to the mind of the reader. For forty years we have forged steadily ahead, building step by step, improving annually. Today Central State has attained a position of prominence and prestige that has been made known throughout the state, the nation, and the world. There is an old proverb that says an institution never stands still; it moves either forward or backward. That analogy is true in our case. The administration has done, is doing, and will continue to do everything in its power to keep the standards of this school upon a high level. Our physical equipment has been steadily improved. During the past four decades the two additions to the main building, Nelson Hall, the Orthman Demonstration School, the Mary D. Bradford Junior High School, and the heating plant have been added to the original structure. I want to take this opportunity to pay public tribute to those regents who have preceded me in office and who were instrumental in securing these improvements. I am happy to have the honor of carrying on their work. The alumni have built a tradition of success in their chosen profession wherever they have cast their lot. A large class leaves this spring. The fraternity of graduates increases regularly. Each possessor of a diploma or degree either adds to or subtracts from the quality of his common brotherhood. I charge each senior, individually and collectively, to assume consciously the responsibility of conducting his personal life, and his professional career so that he may reflect nothing but glory upon his Alma Mater. 18

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It is an exercise in Public Speaking to repeat a sentence with the emphasis on a successive word each time; consequently, it would be possible to give the sentence, Why do we live?’ with four different emphases. If we should do this, I am sure the thought would grip the mind and make us live the more thoughtfully all our days. In the early history of our country lived a lad who might have been a Freshman in our own institution; he gave a fitting answer to this question, Why do we live? He was not like the Freshman who, when asked this question, answered, I don t know, I guess we live to die! This lad of early American days said: So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.