West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE WEST CHESTER. PENNSYLVANIA April 30, 1935 IM To the Members of the Graduating Class: What is the best education? was asked of Plato centu- ries ago. His reply was significant; It is that which gives to the body and the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. Pat beauty into your lives at every opportunity. Search for the secret charms of the sunset, the mountain, and the tree; train the eye to see beauty in every leaf and flower; listen for the melody in forest, field, and stream. Remember the vision that you hold in your minds, the ideal that is enthroned in your hearts— this you will build your lives by; this you will become. My wish is that you will help to make the world a bit better and more beautiful because you have lived in it. Cordially yours. .. .U f -- — Charles S. Swope President BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr. Merrill B. Conn President Dr. John A. Farrell Vice-President Mrs. Howard Mellor Secretary-Treasurer Mr. Thomas L. Hoskins Dr. Joseph Scattergood, Jr. Mrs. Jean Kane Fouike Mr. Fred S. Wood Mrs. A. M. h olding Mr. Gordon Cilley Twenty

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ADMINISTRATORS AND FACULTY It requires a keen imagination to visualize those past days when the duty of every faculty member was to see that the boys did not converse with any of the fairer sex,- yet some of the instructors here remember those times of proctoring. Many are our jokes at their expense, and many are the times when our sense of humor tries their patience to be good sports. But when we realize that they are human beings as well as educators, when we discover their human, fun-loving qualities, we learn to like and admire them as men and women. Even their titles and degrees fail to awe us com- pletely. It is the faculty members who instil in each student that desire to live a fuller life,- it is they who help direct the ambition and thinking of each individual so that education may be more worthwhile. Through the efforts of all who have served here, there have developed many of the finest characters, friendships, and traditions which are written indelibly into the history of this college. (fX£. Nineteen

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PRESIDENT CHARLES S. SWOPE President Swope was born thirty-six years ago in Huntingdon County where he spent his childhood and early youth. After receiving his elementary education there, he matriculated at West Chester Normal School and then at Dickinson, from which institution he was graduated in 1925 with on A.B. degree. He was supervisor of the grade work and head of the history department at the Pennington School for t5oys. After serving as superintendent of schools at Everett, Pennsylvania, he accepted the call to join the faculty of the State Teachers College at West Chester. About eight years ago Mr. Swope married a former classmate. The following year he received his M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now completing the requirements for his doctorate. His elevation to the Presidency of our College is just recognition of faithful work. Twenty-one