NORMAL TIMES At Central State Normal LOCK HAVEN, PA., JULY VOLUME 2 School 10,1924 NUMBER 13 Eighty-eight Graduates Leave C. S. N. S. in Class of 1924 Few Changes on Faculty—Entertainment Course Arranged. Training School Opens Every train from every direction, New York Central or Pennsylvania, bore crowds of students to Lock Haven Normal on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, June 22, 23, and 24. Trolley cars and taxis tore back and forth between the train and the school. The platform of the station heajied higher and higher with trunks and baggage. Suitcases and handbags accumulated in the halls. Students located themselves in their rooms, and the accumulations melted slowl.y. Baggagemen toiled, and the trunks one by one found their way into the proper rooms. Normalcy reestablished itself, even though in a few hours nearly six hundred students, equipped with all that seemed necessary to sijend nine weeks, had piled into the dormitories and into homes about the city. Registration began immediately. It is an old story now, that long wait in the g.yninasium for a chance to settle the jireliminaries, that painful shelling out to Mr. Ritter for the term's biggest expenses, that filling out of registration forms, and that process of making out a. program. The heat of the days, the hottest we have had this summer, added nothing to the fun of the process. But —there were more old friends to greet, there were more handshakings and osculations, there was all the excitement of a reunion for those who had been here, and there was all the newness to keep excited those who are here for the flrst time. The faculty members had the same friendl.v spirit evident that marks their attitude here. Each student, though it took much time to do it, had the satisfactory feeling of having talked over her special problem with some faculty member, so that her final program was the best one that could be divised for her. No one should run foul of the complicated regulations governing certification in this state; her program was made out after her problem was realized. From the flrst moment the school began to run, it was made evident that this school wants to meet students as individuals and as human beings, and not as one small atom of very little importance in the big mass of the school. Bush, cram, jam, it was, to get everything done, yet there was time for individual greetings and plan- 1924 is out in the wide-wide world. The day that seemed so far away, back there in September, 1922, has come—and gone. The many girls and the few boys who started out together, worked together, stuck together, together added new glory to the name of C. S. N. S., have met together for the last time, to gether have graduated, together are list ed for all time as sons and daughters of Alma Mater. Together they wdll never be again; yet in a truer sense they can never be separated. There is that quality in a good class that makes it live forever in the hearts and minds of every member, and in the mind and heart of the school which once knew and served and loved them all. Eighty-eight inembers graduated in the class of 1924. Not all of fhem won honors in scholarship or in teaching, but all of them have been euipped to earn a living and to live worthily. Central State gets its glory and its reward in the work of its graduates, and the graduates of 1924 have that which wdll establish the worth of the education they have received and of the school that gave it to them in all the communities into which they now go. It added, somehow, a peculiar charm and value to the commencement exercises of the class of 1924 that the final message addressed to them eame from the well-beloved former principal of this institution, Ur. Charles Lose. His theme was "Personalitj' and Character," and so ably was it developed, so intimate and so practical was its message, that no one who heard it will ever entirely forget it. To state as briefl.v as must be stated here its message is to lose most of its value. A teacher's voice, he said, should be natural, pleasant, and distinct. Her dress should be suitable and attractive, neither shabby nor in the extreme of fashion. "The schoolroom," he said, "has no place for the flapper— male or female." The teacher should be optimistic, should possess a sense of humor, should be above displays of temperament. Like her dress, her manners slimild be neither shabby nor extravagant. She must be absolutely sincere ia character; children are quick to detect the least sign of insincerity, and with the loss of their faith in their teacher goes her chance to influence them for good. She must have a wdiolehearted devotion to her work ; put into (Continued on paffe 4) ^^*^\'^( May .SI was Alumni Day. And m.aybe the graduates of this school did not know it. Not in inaii.y years have so many of the graduates been back at one time. Not in as many years has a gathering been so enthusiastic. Nearly two hundred registered with Miss Edna Rich, Secretary of the Alumni. Many more came to the banquet, to the dance, or to both, who dispensed with registration as a mere formality that cut into the time for seeing the old crowd again. 1904 came back in largest numbers, with 1923 being a not very close second. Thirty-four classes were represented, and all enjoyed the flood of reminiscence and the felling of being with Alma Mater again. Baseball Game The day started oflf with a baseball game between the class of 1904 and all comers. 1899 had been scheduled to play, but, with but one representative on the opposition from that class, 1904 can be fairly said to have met and to have beaten the fleld, the flnal score being 6-.'), with '04 on the long end. Fred Balfour, 'O.'l; Fred Maneval, Charles Baldwdn, Robert Appleby, M. E. Haggerty, '04; 1. T. Lambert, '99; Drew Courtney, 11; Guy Luck and Ted Schreiber, '23; these were some of those who found the schoid uniforms snugger than they used to be. Alumni Meeting A iiriigiaiii nf stunts, including a volleyball game and competitive exercises by members of the graduating class, was staged on the athletic fleld at 2:00. At ;{:.30 a brief prograni was given in tho auditorium. Gertrude Rohe, '14, sang a solo, accompanied by Miss Dorothy O'Brien, and a nuinber of the alunini gave short talks. The annual election ot cifficers resulted in Dr. D. W. Thomas, uf this city, being re-elected Iiresident; .1. S. Cranmer, of Williamsport, first vice-president; Helen Harper, of Bellerdiite, second vice-president; Edua I'. Kicli, secretary; George Mincemoyer, nt .Mechanicsburg, treasurer; aud Ives L. Ilarvey, of New Hope, I. T. I'arsons, Mrs. Christine Riehens, and Mrs. (i. D. .Meivine. ot Lock Haven, William r . Cnri.i ly, of .Madera, and J. Buell Snyder, nf Perryopolis, memliers of the executive committee. ja> iiings. .\lumni Banquet The Aluuini Biinquet came off at 0:30 in the miniiiil (lining hall, about two hundred iilumni and guests attacking roast tiiike.v—royal birds they must have been, grnwiiig uji full of C. S. N . S. spirit- and all the fixin's, from grape- It took two days to get the school running. By Wednesday, programs were in running order; classes were nieeting regularly; chapel xJrograms had begun; new girls had learned which way (Cuntiiuied on pnge 2) Baseball Game, Reunions, Big Banquet, and Annual Dance Keep Day Full SET FOR A N O T H E R SUMMER (Continued on p a g e G) NORMAL Geoffrey O'Hara Gives Tecital On Tuesday evening, July Itli, Mr. Geoffrey O'Hara, noted comp ser and singer, entertained the stuih uts and faculty of C. S. N. S. His p. sonality was very pleasing, humor and wit predominating throughout his re< ital and discussion. From the moinciit he appeared on the stage to the hisi encore, he held the undivided attention of all. Mr. O'Hara explained how music is comjiosed, iiarticularly how the little tunes and folk-songs originated. He exIilained the difference between a real art song and common popular music. "An art song is a song wdiich expresses the thought of the composer; that is, one which sa.vs in music wluit the words seem to indicate." Mr. O'Hara rendered many beautiful selections, playing his own accoinpaiiimeiit. He sang an old and a new Knglish love song, Irish, Scotch, and .American melodies. The most eiitertaiiiiiig event of the entire prograni was Mr. O'Hara's variations of his own composition, "K-K-K-Katy." He played it as a music-box, funeral march,wedding march, church chimes, Argentine tango, waltz, fox-trot, circus music. He also demonstrated how au.y selection is mastered by a player. His illustration was "Poor Butterfly," played by a jazz-hound, and then Jilayed as an art song. He closed the prograni by a number on the victrola, Mr. O'Hara on the phonograph accompanied by Mr. O'Hara iu person