University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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The faculty, to us, the freshmen, were strangers; but four years, commencement; the faculty, to ns, the seniors, are friends. AllfiiHKTIPiJittt

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I cannot always feel his kindness. Sometimes he walks beside me, step by step, And paces slowly in the ways — T h e s i in pie wingless ways T h a t in y t h o u g h t tread. He gossips with me then, And finds it good; Not as an eagle might, his wings folded, be content To walk a little, know- ing it his choice. But as a simple man, My friend. Adapted from EUNICE Tl OMENS

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0 s BIIWBK 7J2 Burtox E i lson, President To the Anniversary Class •MIl ( lass of 1952 has several anniversaries associated with this year to make CA the class unique. This is an interesting year in many respects. The thing V J tliu is uppermost in the minds of all students is the fact that this is the bi- ™ Centennial anniversary of the birth of Washington. It is an important even: in national and world history. It should be significant to the class of But that is not all that makes the year memorable. It has special bearing upon The Stout Institute and upon the educational history of Wisconsin. This year vocational education becomes of age in Wisconsin. Twenty-one years .;is summer the legislature passed the law creating the vocational schools of the Twenty-one years ago The Stout Institute became a State school and was charged with the training of home economics and industrial education teachers for the Twenty-one years ago the first compulsory part-time vocational school in any state was Organized and operated in Wisconsin. Twenty-one years ago the first din tional education in America wis appointed and began a study of his problem. With us it should be a year of celebration almost as significant as the other celebration that com- memorates the birth of the man who made this nation possible. The time is near when we may begin the writing of the history of this great edu- cational movement in the state and nation; and when it is written The Stout Institute must shine as a beacon light showing the way to newer and better things in the educa- tion of the Youth of America. The Class of 1952 is fortunate in the possession of these interesting educational landmarks. Burton E. Nklson, Pro.