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VOL 3—No. 11
THE STECTA.TOK. \
NUMBER
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDINBORO, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936
Academy Hall.
Built In 1875
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Rev. Caldwell Speaks
A Short History of Edinboro
Today, Edinboro State Teachers
College celebrates the seventy-fifth
anniversary of its founding.
For three quarters of a century
this institution, the second oldest in
the state for the preparation of teach
ers, has been a marked influence in
the educational life of Western Penn
sylvania. Its graduates include thou
sands of men and women, many of
whom are prominent in other pro
fessions as well as that of teaching.
A recent survey of its graduates has
shown that they are to be found in
practically every state in the United
States, and in seven foreign countries.
It is safe to say that every town and
community of northwestern Pennsyl
vania has its representation. |
Edinboro Normal School came into
existence in I860,, supplanting an
Academy established three years
earlier. At that time when it was
necessary to have three new build
ings and ten thousand dollars to meet
the State’s requirements for a Normal
School, the citizens of the town met
and, by the light of the then new
fangled kerosene lamps, piled on the
table their contributions in notes and
cash. For a village of 500 in a
farming community, this was pretty
Edinboro students several years good, but the citizens were mostly
ago cooked their meals in their rooms Scotch and thrifty, and had come
and were required to close their from a country that valued educa
ampers before going to class.
tion highly.
Reverend A. 0. Caldwell, of the
Presbyterian Church of Titusville,
spoke to the students and friends of
Edinboro State Teachers College at
Vespers Sunday, April 19. His mes
sage was based on the thoughts of
Dr. Aubrey, of the University of
Chicago, who stated that the world
lacks sense of direction, motivation,
and morality.
“Men and nations need direction—
a goal toward which they are work
ing.” The founders of this college
had a very definite direction in their
actions when they established a train
ing school for teachers. To prove
the universality of his statement,
Rev. Caldwell quoted from a con
temporary writer and Christ.
“If there is no such thing as duty
and devotion and only things that
can be bought and sold, the world is
indeed in a bad condition.” Every
person, should have a very definite
motive for his existence.
“Our lives are based on the morals
on which we lean. God is soverign
and will not be defeated. That is
the kind of morals which Edinboro’s
founders had.”
The first principal/ J. A. Cooper,
came newly graduated from Yale
and served for thirty years, 18621892. Six presidents have followed;
M. G. Benedict, John F. Bigler, Frank
E. Baker, A. G. Crane, C. C. Craw
ford, and Carmon Ross now serving.
In 1926, under the guidance of
Dr. C. C. Crawford, the school be
came a State Teachers College with
full control and ownership vested in
the State of Pennsylvania and with
the right to confer degrees.
One building of the original camp
us group stall stands,- a dignified
white structure originally known as
Commercial Hall, later as Literary
Hall, and now as Music Hall, it now
being the headquarters of the music
department of the college. The
youngest building is Loveland Hall,
erected in 1930, and named for F. A.
Loveland of Corry who has for many
years been a member of the Board
of Trustees.
Educationally, Edinboro has grown
from a two-year normal school with
a very limited curriculum to a fouryear college offering courses in the
Primary, Secondary, Intermediate,
and Art fields. It has also qualified
for membership, with a Class A rat
ing, in the American Association of
Teachers Colleges.
—Written for the press by Mr. W. V.
Zahniser.
Welcome
Alumni, Educators, and Friends of
the College, the students and Faculty
of Edinboro State Teachers College
wish to extend a hearty welcome to
you on this, the Seventy-fifth Anni
versary of the founding of the
College.
At this milestone in the progress
of the institution, we pause for a
moment to glance at the past to pay
tribute to those who have given so
much to make this College what it
is; and then we again turn our gaze
to the future, that Edinboro round
out its first century of service to
Western Pennsylvania as a greater
educational institution than ever be
fore.
At this time we also congratulate
the Honorable George H. Earle,
Governor of the Commonwealth, on
his appointment of the new Trustees
of the College.
In the service of the Common
wealth and in the cause of broader
education, may Edinboro continue to
grow.
In our celebration of this anniver
sary we look forward to a new ideal
of co-operation among the member,
of the school. We hope to see Edin
boro College and town, students and
faculty, administration and trustees,
section and state, all working to
gether to increase the efficiency and
improve the service of the institution.
the spectator
Page Two
the spectator
Old Regulations
Fore ! Edinboro
Janeand
Zahniser
The divot-diggers are at it again
Excerpts from”ihT“Catalogue
Lois Gaylor
Although Culbertson Hills has
Circular
of
Edinboro
State
^rWilliam Coyle
Mal School” for the Academical opened, we see a great number
John Swift
Edinboro students out swatting
year 1861-1862
Neil Peiffer
on the athletic field. Occasionally
1
Each
student
is
recommended
Frances Cochanides
see a good swing out there but n(.
to
provide
himself
with
slippers,
that
Irene Smith
one seems to know for certain jUs,
F. L. LaBounty in passing up and down the stairways
or through the halls, he can walk where that little pellet is going
quietly. No one must indulge in loud park itself at any given time.
There has been a lot of talk during
talking, whistling, or other unneces
the winter of a golf team; this tall
sary noise in the building.
2. Every student will be expected has been mostly impractical, but
to be present at the daily opening can still view our prospects. DOr
and closing exercises of the school, Denison played on a high school golf
and at all general exercises in the team and apparently has not forgot
Lecture Hall, unless excused; and any of his tricks. Jim Pogue smack?
permission to be absent from a reci them out in the meadow with an oetion of students and policies, become a powerful factor fcr good in tation should always be obtained from casional tail which is apt to find him
its community, and in the characters of its pupils.
the teacher in charge of the class trouble. Walter Hall hits them easy,
When Edinboro first became a Normal School it was ycung, before the absence occurs.
but consistently. Sam Salchak know?
3. Students are allowed to walk the game; he has caddied and played
enthusiastic, proud of the honor given it when it w;s m?de a state
school for teacher training. Rightly, it felt that it had been given for exercise in the vicinity of the Edinboro for a number of years.
a tremendous responsibility, and must work with earnest diligence school, but no one, otherwise, will Reid Hastie h’ts them without flinch
to prove its worth. Teachers, students, and principal cnonerated absent himself, without the permis ing and seems to enjoy playing. Neil
for the good of the school. Everyone was proud of Edinboro, and sion of the Principal.
Peiffer has been puttering around
Edinboro was proud of its members. The school prospered and
6. No nails must be driven into the golf courses for nine years. Bob
walls or ceiling, oi’ alterations be Scarpitti leads the club through with
grew on enthusiasm.
Today we are still very, very proud of Edinboro, a^d i’’ 'S our made in the windows, doors, or any a wicked left arm. Edinboro could
pride that makes it an excellent school. But we must be ca'eful to appendage of the rooms, without the pick a pretty fair golf team from this
The bunch, if they would practice. Wt
keep up our enthusiasm as well as our pride. With age we '"*e ^row permission of the Steward.
ing sophisticated, blase; afraid to bring out in the open the childhood Steward will visit each room at least know nothing of their short game
spirit of helpful cooperation that made us what w? ?re. »We think once a week, and, if damaged, it must which, of course, counts fifty per
we are too old and too realistic to be openly helpful—so we are be repaired, or, if unnecessarily dirty, cent.
proud underneath and cover it up with worldly criticisms of our it may be cleansed, at the expense of
Everyone should learn to play golf.
teachers and administration. We forget that it was enthusiasm that the student.
It is the one sport which stays with
7. It is expected that the ladies you all your life. Let us offer a
made a successful school out of an obscure academy.
and gentlemen of the institution will word of advice to beginners. Do n r
In an old catalogue, published over twenty years ago by this
treat one another with politeness, but borrow clubs and balls from your
school, we find this appreciative description of the ycung men and
rin CQUyers 01? hotwppn th*3 gpyog
xi iends. — -Although—cney~ are asvilwomen who attended Edinboro at that time:
must take place in the Lecture Room, ling to say so, they love these clubs
Our students come from homes of moderate me^ne, and com° between classes, in the Recitation
for the sake of preparing for life’s work. They come frnm homes Rooms, or in the Halls. At the close and they worry about them every
where they have been taught the virtues of industry, econom y self- of the evening lectures or society minute they are gone. Purchase a
reliance, and fidelity. They come from homes where edu?alion is meetings, all will repair immediately mashie for one dollar or less and a
highly prized, and learning is placed above wealth. Ycung people to their rooms. Neither sex will be dozen used balls. Go to the athletic
from these homes make the best students. They work with energy. permitted to trespass upon that por field and hit them an hour every day
They favor good conduct. They expect to study hard. Th y are tion of the building assigned to the for six weeks. (Don’t be afraid to
ask your friend to help you as he will
willing to deny themselves for the sake of improvement.
Such other.
students are good associates. They are profitable companions. .
be tickled pink.) At the end of t’Js
8. No lady or gentleman attending period if you can hit a mashie shot
They k;:now that the value of opportunities depends upon their use
They are therefore earnest, and energetic in their efforts for self this inst’tution will walk or ride with 150 yards with the proper elevation
a person of the opposite sex, except and without pushing, pulling, hook
improvement ...”
in cases of necessity; and then, only ing, or slicing, son, there are real
We can see that faculty and administration were prcud and enwith the permission of the Principa' possibilities ahead for you.
thusiastic about the students.
No permission will be given for par
If, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of our school s life, students ties or excursions composed of th?
acuity, and administration can recapture that helpful old enthusiasm two sexes.
the day will have given us new life and a stronger spirit. If we can
The^e regulations have been adopt
ontnn “If
*? d ayerS °f disaPPoint™^t and cynacism that are ed after very careful consideration
Faculty of Instruction
on top and display our sincere pride in Edinboro underneath, we will of what would best promote the good
James Thompson—Principal and Pr°'
have done
t
ly th cM]
but
a favQr
^e need
of the Institution and those connect
lessor of Language, Mental and
more naievity less reality; Edinboro needs our cooperation
Let ed with it. It is hoped they will
us show her today the real pride that each of us has in her
Moral Science, and Theory and
recommend themselves to the good
Practice of Teaching.
sense of every student, and be obey J. A. Cooper—Professor of CheniiS'
ed because they are reasonable and
try and Natural Science
right.
L. Osgood—Prof essor of Reading and
Requirements for Classical Course
Excepting for textbooks the fiction section t tk
S?°rt P?ge’
Elocution
Freshmen
0. S. Woodward—Professor of Writ''
Its popularity is attested to by the number of bool/
comPlete- Sallust and Ovid
ing, book-keeping, and Vocal Mudc
Anabasis
D. B. Thompson—Professor of Arid1'
English novels suffer the least from the ravages of th , k ki- In Higher Algebra
shop-lifters. This leads to the conclusion fhat hesl n
” ^ Rhetoric
nietic and Higher Branches
Mathematics
-onnoisseurs; they skim through a book before makinf it th™8
Livy
M- W. Oliver—Principal of The
Americans notoriously avoid anything British. A r ndom °T Zoology
Model School
Jove or righto is enough to discourage the
k \ ndo™ . by
etc.
bandit. The novels of English life are IntereTk
hardened llbra^
Miss
E. P. Thompson—Teacher
Seniors
humorous. A few of the better ones are ”FuirF|and ^k "
Georgraphy, Instrumental Mus^.
Select Plays of AEschylus
History, and Modern Languages
Leslie, “The Good Companions” by J B Priestlv “S
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e™’ A play of Terence
Salhe D. Reeder—Assistant Teachef
Mental Philosophy
of Grammar and Arithmetic **
Moral Philosophy
Assistant Teacher of Drawing
Acoustics and Optics
Geography and History
Editor-in-Chief
Social Editor
Literary Editor ....
Sports Editor
News Head...........■
Club Editor
Business Manager
Faculty Adviser ....
Editorial
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First Faculty
It:
THE SPECTATOR
Dorm Doings
Fishing Season Opens
By Ruth McFadden
Because the people on first floor
appear to be highly insulted because
we stated that they are rather quiet
it seems altogether fitting that they
should be mentioned first. Jean Kil
gore kindly consented to help gather
news about these heretofore unheard
from people, and so it is our extreme
pleasure to present the happenings on
first floor.
Who is the first floor girl who takes
6 or 8 different kinds of medicine.
Suspicions are directed toward a
certain well known athlete.
Betty Hillier was the proud posses
sor of a 5-lb. Easter egg. Your guess
is as good as ours as to the donor.
We’re glad to have Marion Peter
son back again. Rita Russell, her
roomate, was quite lost without her.
First floor would like to suggest
Averil Wheeling as their finest posses
sor of that intangible thing dubbed
personality.
They also claim that Helen McGogney and Jean McQuilken are two
of the best student teachers on the
campus.
Curious facts: Alice Houk knits a
sweater a day; first floor broke down
and made some noise the other day;
- this--is—n.11- first floor can think of.
Our sincere thanks to Miss Kilgore
for aiding with the above, and a re
gret that we angered first floor. Also
a hope that the noise will continue,
our sympathies to the proctors.
This years student teachers must
have some sort of a magnetic power
over their pupils. The latter are alavays in the dormitory visiting their
instructors.
Jean Kilgore, Betty Hillier, Jean
Kanhofer, and Rita Russell have
started golf training again, though
by the looks of the weather it is
doubtful if they will ever get a
chance to play.
Quite a number of the girls are
still ill from their Easter vacation.
Our best wishes for a speedy reco very.
And still our menagerie increases.
Suliy received a Jeep for Easter, but
she doesn’t feed it orchids.
Also
there are innumerable bunnies, both
stuffed and chocolate.
Virginia Kaltenbach wishes to in
form Ruth Anderson that she receiv
ed a telephone call from Ligioner.
And for anyone’s information she
went up in the clouds then and hasn’t
come down yet.
A regular Easter parade is being
held in the dorm, with all the new
outfits being properly shown and ad
mired.
Page Three
Faculty Entertains
Trio Goes Abroad
Very seldom do we hear of the
faculty entertaining students, but
when they do we hear of the party
for weeks. We hear of a recent par
ty held at the home of a faclty radio
enthusiast where the guests became
so interested that they kept the sur
rounding neighbors awake till mid
night. It seems that a certain facul
ty member, the same faculty mem
ber, had just finished building a loud
speaker and microphone and his
wife’s guests for the evening furnish
ed excellent material for the testing
of his new masterpiece. The appara
tus worked much like the machines
used in broadcasting stations for au
ditions and naturally all wanted to
hear what their voices would sound
.ike over the radio. LaRita Kramer
did an e Esther (the loud speaker was placed
on the front porch) and it was so
good that Mr. Park Skelton from
across the street asked for more and
he got it, plenty of it till midnight.
We found that Chalmer Swift’s voice
sounded just divine and we asked him
to sing several times Alone but Dar
Miller kept heckling him with his at
tempts at the Mills Brother Stuff.
One Alumnus of Edinboro gave an
excellent imitation of Rudy Vallee,
and again this made a hit with our
friend Mr. Skelton who seemed to
enjoy our broadcast very much, yet
we don’t know what the other neigh
bors thought of it. LaRita Kramer
again was the star when she imitated
Gracie Allen so perfectly. Thus the
evening wore on, with Clarence Heft
microphone shy and Ed Noble’s
clowning and wit. We would like to
try it again sometime and perhaps
we would find more talented students
on campus. How about it, Mr. and
Mrs. McCommons?
The Trio goes abroad again and
guess where this time?
To Guys
Mills. The trio played the same program that they played on previous
trips, and Jim Wilson sang several
Sol'Os to a very attentive group ~of
Guys Mills high school students.
After the musical program of the
afternoon, Miss Wilson spoke to the
high school seniors. Not being pre
sent when Miss Wilson spoke, I only
guess as to the content of her speech
which I believe was on the advant
ages offered to the prospective teach
er at Edinboro State Teachers
College. The students were given a
good example of the advantages be’ng offered here as a group of very
talentedI musicians performed for
them. It
] would be quite an advantage to be able to hear them quite
often.
A SUGGESTION
Dear Editor:
We have, on the campus, a re-furnished and re-decorated building,- or
iginally built for and for a number
of years used as a Men’s Dormitory.
During the last years of this latter
period, Professor Hermon Sackett
had his residence here as Dean of
Men, and continued to live here for
some time after retirement from act
ive service as a member of the fac
ulty.
I suggest that this building, now
renewed and refitted for student
teacher headquarters and for office
rooms for faculty members and col
lege organizations, be hereafter cal
led Sackett Hall and thereby named
for one who is an alumnus, who has
been a beloved teacher, and who still
remains a loyal friend and supporter
of his Alma Mater.
What the immortal Barnum said
about a sucker being born every
minute has certainly proven true in
Edinboro. We feel certain there are
more suckers in college than ever
graduated from high school.
A clever Edinboro Student, realiz
ing this, conceived an idea whereby
he might gain some financial benefit
and at the same time make fools out
of a great number of his associates.
His apparatus consists of an ordinary
pop bottle cap with a penny conceal
ed between the cork and tin portions,
an unscrupulous accomplice, and any
of the many varieties of suckers (not
including faculty members).
When a sucker enters his place of
business, our friend places the bottle
cap on the table, places a second pen
ny under the cap, and looks at the
sucker, saying, “I’ll bet you ten cents
there is a penny under that cap”.
The reply is of course, “What do you
take me for, a sucker?” Our magi
cian leaves the room and his accom- .
plice (a sober-faced Irishman prefer
red) removes the second coin with
the remark, “We’ll fix that guy.”
When the magicion returns the
cucker has his ten cents out to bet
there isn’t a penny under the cap.
Imagine, if you have not seen or
experienced, the face and feelings of
the poor sucker when the second cent
is removed from benath the cork.
The Spectator expects to publish the
names of all Edinboro’s in the next
ImoUc. We—arc expecting
great
many bribes in the meantime.
Official Delagates
Many colleges and universities are
sending official delegates to the cele
bration of the seventy-fifth anniver
sary of Edinboro’s service to North
western Pennsylvania. Some of them
are alumni of Edinboro; some are
former teachers here; and others
know of Edinboro through its reputa
tion alone. Regardless oT their re
lations to this institution we bid them
welcome.
The official delegates to this cele
bration are: Dr. Clarence F. Ross.
Allegheny College; Edward Kuberski,
Alliance College; Dr. D. D. Pierce,
Clarion State Teachers College;
President Weir Ketler, Grove City
College; President C. R. Foster, In
diana State Teachers College; H. E.
McConnell, Juniata College; PresiCollege; Dr. George Fickes, Layfaydent Clyde A. Lynch, Lebanon Valley
ette College; President Dallas W.
Armstrong, Lockhaven State Teach
ers College; Dr. Dearborn, New York
University; Dean Will Grant Chamb
ers, Pennsylvania State College; Dr.
Gerald D. Whitney, University of
Pittsburgh; President R. L. Rowland,
Shippensburg State Teachers College,
President C. S. Miller, Slippery Rock
State Teachers College; Dean Geo.
E. Walka, Temple University; Hiram
Sackett, Washington and Jefferson
College; and Dr. Alexander C. Burr,
Westminster College.
THE SPECTATOR
Page Four
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It’s styled in the
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Off Campus News
Reeder Snooze
By Eleanor Harned
By Walter Hall
Evelyn Covert has had a bad case
of spring fever, but we hear she is
recuperating nicely.
Bunny Williams attended a wedWe
ding during Easter .vacation,
wonder whose it was.
You should try the new flat sponge
cakes that Estella Luke and Betty
Kafferlin are making a specialty of.
Reederite Is First To Swim
In Lake This Season
Genevieve Miller has slept con
tinuously since vacation.
Betty Kafferlin received a dozen
Oeauuiui roses for- - Easter. — -Pi o ttynice, Betty.
Estella—Did you have Sox last
year for gym?
Elizabeth—No, we wore black
stockings.
Reeder is certainly proud of the
fact that one of its occupants was the
first to open the bathing season at
Edinboro Lake.
I am told that the
ice breaker took a beautiful back-fly
assisted by one of the fair maidens of
Haven Hall. Have you dried your
clothes yet, Hank?
Edinboro Stylist Introduces
New Spring Togs for Men
-What-is-the woll-drcssed-Edinboro
man wearing this spring? It seems
that the latest in men’s wear is a
snappy black and white sport coat
with a jumbo sized red bow tie to set
it off. This particular set-up has
been imported from Meadville. Keep
Norma hangs the alarm clock out
your eye on Mike for future details.
the window every Sunday night at
Odd bits....Reeder is glad to see
10:00 for Betty.
Anne Mineo gets awfully homesick Arden back, but very sorry that he
when she doesn’t go home for week is not staying on campus.
ends.
Ella Mills is lonesome now that
Bea McGahen has gone to Erie to do
student teaching.
Wanda Swiecki declares that she’s
never been in love.
Is Vergie ever popular.
Two
whopping Easter eggs for one little
girl.
The girls who have been out for
speedball are using canes in one hand
and grabbing the bannister with the
other trying to climb up and down
stairs. Ask Franny.
Bea Hall is so-o-o-o- glad that none
of her classes begin before 10:00
Jim Smith, thanks to a faculty
member, has a novel way to stop hic
coughs. Simply take a drink of
water from the edge of the glass that
is away from you. This is indeed
most unconventional, nevertheless I
am told that it brings results.
W. A. A.
By Martin Schweller
By Betty Kafferlin
It has been learned that the Y. M.
C. A. Spring Training Conference is
to be held during the week-end begin
ning May 1. It is hoped that this or
ganization will be able to send it’s
newly-elected officers to this interest
ing and informative meeting, so that
they may be well-posted on the latest
and most efficient methods of execut
ing those activities which most con
cern the Y.
There has been some talk of a co
operative movement between the Y.
MLC. A. and the Y. W. C. A. concern
ing the matter of an informal~Hance
for those who are to be our guests on
high school day of our festival pro
gram. It is understood that the
necessary finances to sponsor such an
affair are to come from the appro
priations given to each of the re
spective organizations.
As yet there are no definite plans
on this matter but it is the opinion of
this writer that an affair of this sort
should have the hearty approval and
cooperation of both Y’s, because
some of these guests are bound to be
our future students who will con
tribute to the well-being of Edinboro.
On April 7, the 3:15 activities
group were hostesses at a tea, which
proved one of the most successful to
be staged under the auspices of the
W. A. A. These teas, newly innovat
ed this year, have won much popular
ity in fostering friendship and social
contacts among the girls and women
of the campus.
The sport enthusiasts are now find
ing varied means of expending their
energy. Tennis, archery, and speed
ball rank as the most popular sports.
Tenni- under_ Miss Ruttle’q super
vision, is making fine progress in
both the beginning and advanced
classes. Mary Ow and Mickey Mc
Fadden are assisting Miss Ruttie in
teaching the technique of archery
to all g.ris desirous of obtaining this
knowledge and skill.
Speedball is
advancing notably under the efficient
direction of Frances Cochanides.
We feel assured of the success of
our spring sport program, The large
attendances at practice are most
promising but even a larger turnout
at these activities is urged.
About all we ever get out of some
I have won every argument I ever parties is the relief of taking off our
Wolfe is a howl when it comes to
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crooning. In fact, he is the best had with myself.
crooner on second floor.
Bill Coleman takes honors on third
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VOL 3—No. 11
THE STECTA.TOK. \
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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDINBORO, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936
Academy Hall.
Built In 1875
31
1
Rev. Caldwell Speaks
A Short History of Edinboro
Today, Edinboro State Teachers
College celebrates the seventy-fifth
anniversary of its founding.
For three quarters of a century
this institution, the second oldest in
the state for the preparation of teach
ers, has been a marked influence in
the educational life of Western Penn
sylvania. Its graduates include thou
sands of men and women, many of
whom are prominent in other pro
fessions as well as that of teaching.
A recent survey of its graduates has
shown that they are to be found in
practically every state in the United
States, and in seven foreign countries.
It is safe to say that every town and
community of northwestern Pennsyl
vania has its representation. |
Edinboro Normal School came into
existence in I860,, supplanting an
Academy established three years
earlier. At that time when it was
necessary to have three new build
ings and ten thousand dollars to meet
the State’s requirements for a Normal
School, the citizens of the town met
and, by the light of the then new
fangled kerosene lamps, piled on the
table their contributions in notes and
cash. For a village of 500 in a
farming community, this was pretty
Edinboro students several years good, but the citizens were mostly
ago cooked their meals in their rooms Scotch and thrifty, and had come
and were required to close their from a country that valued educa
ampers before going to class.
tion highly.
Reverend A. 0. Caldwell, of the
Presbyterian Church of Titusville,
spoke to the students and friends of
Edinboro State Teachers College at
Vespers Sunday, April 19. His mes
sage was based on the thoughts of
Dr. Aubrey, of the University of
Chicago, who stated that the world
lacks sense of direction, motivation,
and morality.
“Men and nations need direction—
a goal toward which they are work
ing.” The founders of this college
had a very definite direction in their
actions when they established a train
ing school for teachers. To prove
the universality of his statement,
Rev. Caldwell quoted from a con
temporary writer and Christ.
“If there is no such thing as duty
and devotion and only things that
can be bought and sold, the world is
indeed in a bad condition.” Every
person, should have a very definite
motive for his existence.
“Our lives are based on the morals
on which we lean. God is soverign
and will not be defeated. That is
the kind of morals which Edinboro’s
founders had.”
The first principal/ J. A. Cooper,
came newly graduated from Yale
and served for thirty years, 18621892. Six presidents have followed;
M. G. Benedict, John F. Bigler, Frank
E. Baker, A. G. Crane, C. C. Craw
ford, and Carmon Ross now serving.
In 1926, under the guidance of
Dr. C. C. Crawford, the school be
came a State Teachers College with
full control and ownership vested in
the State of Pennsylvania and with
the right to confer degrees.
One building of the original camp
us group stall stands,- a dignified
white structure originally known as
Commercial Hall, later as Literary
Hall, and now as Music Hall, it now
being the headquarters of the music
department of the college. The
youngest building is Loveland Hall,
erected in 1930, and named for F. A.
Loveland of Corry who has for many
years been a member of the Board
of Trustees.
Educationally, Edinboro has grown
from a two-year normal school with
a very limited curriculum to a fouryear college offering courses in the
Primary, Secondary, Intermediate,
and Art fields. It has also qualified
for membership, with a Class A rat
ing, in the American Association of
Teachers Colleges.
—Written for the press by Mr. W. V.
Zahniser.
Welcome
Alumni, Educators, and Friends of
the College, the students and Faculty
of Edinboro State Teachers College
wish to extend a hearty welcome to
you on this, the Seventy-fifth Anni
versary of the founding of the
College.
At this milestone in the progress
of the institution, we pause for a
moment to glance at the past to pay
tribute to those who have given so
much to make this College what it
is; and then we again turn our gaze
to the future, that Edinboro round
out its first century of service to
Western Pennsylvania as a greater
educational institution than ever be
fore.
At this time we also congratulate
the Honorable George H. Earle,
Governor of the Commonwealth, on
his appointment of the new Trustees
of the College.
In the service of the Common
wealth and in the cause of broader
education, may Edinboro continue to
grow.
In our celebration of this anniver
sary we look forward to a new ideal
of co-operation among the member,
of the school. We hope to see Edin
boro College and town, students and
faculty, administration and trustees,
section and state, all working to
gether to increase the efficiency and
improve the service of the institution.
the spectator
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the spectator
Old Regulations
Fore ! Edinboro
Janeand
Zahniser
The divot-diggers are at it again
Excerpts from”ihT“Catalogue
Lois Gaylor
Although Culbertson Hills has
Circular
of
Edinboro
State
^rWilliam Coyle
Mal School” for the Academical opened, we see a great number
John Swift
Edinboro students out swatting
year 1861-1862
Neil Peiffer
on the athletic field. Occasionally
1
Each
student
is
recommended
Frances Cochanides
see a good swing out there but n(.
to
provide
himself
with
slippers,
that
Irene Smith
one seems to know for certain jUs,
F. L. LaBounty in passing up and down the stairways
or through the halls, he can walk where that little pellet is going
quietly. No one must indulge in loud park itself at any given time.
There has been a lot of talk during
talking, whistling, or other unneces
the winter of a golf team; this tall
sary noise in the building.
2. Every student will be expected has been mostly impractical, but
to be present at the daily opening can still view our prospects. DOr
and closing exercises of the school, Denison played on a high school golf
and at all general exercises in the team and apparently has not forgot
Lecture Hall, unless excused; and any of his tricks. Jim Pogue smack?
permission to be absent from a reci them out in the meadow with an oetion of students and policies, become a powerful factor fcr good in tation should always be obtained from casional tail which is apt to find him
its community, and in the characters of its pupils.
the teacher in charge of the class trouble. Walter Hall hits them easy,
When Edinboro first became a Normal School it was ycung, before the absence occurs.
but consistently. Sam Salchak know?
3. Students are allowed to walk the game; he has caddied and played
enthusiastic, proud of the honor given it when it w;s m?de a state
school for teacher training. Rightly, it felt that it had been given for exercise in the vicinity of the Edinboro for a number of years.
a tremendous responsibility, and must work with earnest diligence school, but no one, otherwise, will Reid Hastie h’ts them without flinch
to prove its worth. Teachers, students, and principal cnonerated absent himself, without the permis ing and seems to enjoy playing. Neil
for the good of the school. Everyone was proud of Edinboro, and sion of the Principal.
Peiffer has been puttering around
Edinboro was proud of its members. The school prospered and
6. No nails must be driven into the golf courses for nine years. Bob
walls or ceiling, oi’ alterations be Scarpitti leads the club through with
grew on enthusiasm.
Today we are still very, very proud of Edinboro, a^d i’’ 'S our made in the windows, doors, or any a wicked left arm. Edinboro could
pride that makes it an excellent school. But we must be ca'eful to appendage of the rooms, without the pick a pretty fair golf team from this
The bunch, if they would practice. Wt
keep up our enthusiasm as well as our pride. With age we '"*e ^row permission of the Steward.
ing sophisticated, blase; afraid to bring out in the open the childhood Steward will visit each room at least know nothing of their short game
spirit of helpful cooperation that made us what w? ?re. »We think once a week, and, if damaged, it must which, of course, counts fifty per
we are too old and too realistic to be openly helpful—so we are be repaired, or, if unnecessarily dirty, cent.
proud underneath and cover it up with worldly criticisms of our it may be cleansed, at the expense of
Everyone should learn to play golf.
teachers and administration. We forget that it was enthusiasm that the student.
It is the one sport which stays with
7. It is expected that the ladies you all your life. Let us offer a
made a successful school out of an obscure academy.
and gentlemen of the institution will word of advice to beginners. Do n r
In an old catalogue, published over twenty years ago by this
treat one another with politeness, but borrow clubs and balls from your
school, we find this appreciative description of the ycung men and
rin CQUyers 01? hotwppn th*3 gpyog
xi iends. — -Although—cney~ are asvilwomen who attended Edinboro at that time:
must take place in the Lecture Room, ling to say so, they love these clubs
Our students come from homes of moderate me^ne, and com° between classes, in the Recitation
for the sake of preparing for life’s work. They come frnm homes Rooms, or in the Halls. At the close and they worry about them every
where they have been taught the virtues of industry, econom y self- of the evening lectures or society minute they are gone. Purchase a
reliance, and fidelity. They come from homes where edu?alion is meetings, all will repair immediately mashie for one dollar or less and a
highly prized, and learning is placed above wealth. Ycung people to their rooms. Neither sex will be dozen used balls. Go to the athletic
from these homes make the best students. They work with energy. permitted to trespass upon that por field and hit them an hour every day
They favor good conduct. They expect to study hard. Th y are tion of the building assigned to the for six weeks. (Don’t be afraid to
ask your friend to help you as he will
willing to deny themselves for the sake of improvement.
Such other.
students are good associates. They are profitable companions. .
be tickled pink.) At the end of t’Js
8. No lady or gentleman attending period if you can hit a mashie shot
They k;:now that the value of opportunities depends upon their use
They are therefore earnest, and energetic in their efforts for self this inst’tution will walk or ride with 150 yards with the proper elevation
a person of the opposite sex, except and without pushing, pulling, hook
improvement ...”
in cases of necessity; and then, only ing, or slicing, son, there are real
We can see that faculty and administration were prcud and enwith the permission of the Principa' possibilities ahead for you.
thusiastic about the students.
No permission will be given for par
If, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of our school s life, students ties or excursions composed of th?
acuity, and administration can recapture that helpful old enthusiasm two sexes.
the day will have given us new life and a stronger spirit. If we can
The^e regulations have been adopt
ontnn “If
*? d ayerS °f disaPPoint™^t and cynacism that are ed after very careful consideration
Faculty of Instruction
on top and display our sincere pride in Edinboro underneath, we will of what would best promote the good
James Thompson—Principal and Pr°'
have done
t
ly th cM]
but
a favQr
^e need
of the Institution and those connect
lessor of Language, Mental and
more naievity less reality; Edinboro needs our cooperation
Let ed with it. It is hoped they will
us show her today the real pride that each of us has in her
Moral Science, and Theory and
recommend themselves to the good
Practice of Teaching.
sense of every student, and be obey J. A. Cooper—Professor of CheniiS'
ed because they are reasonable and
try and Natural Science
right.
L. Osgood—Prof essor of Reading and
Requirements for Classical Course
Excepting for textbooks the fiction section t tk
S?°rt P?ge’
Elocution
Freshmen
0. S. Woodward—Professor of Writ''
Its popularity is attested to by the number of bool/
comPlete- Sallust and Ovid
ing, book-keeping, and Vocal Mudc
Anabasis
D. B. Thompson—Professor of Arid1'
English novels suffer the least from the ravages of th , k ki- In Higher Algebra
shop-lifters. This leads to the conclusion fhat hesl n
” ^ Rhetoric
nietic and Higher Branches
Mathematics
-onnoisseurs; they skim through a book before makinf it th™8
Livy
M- W. Oliver—Principal of The
Americans notoriously avoid anything British. A r ndom °T Zoology
Model School
Jove or righto is enough to discourage the
k \ ndo™ . by
etc.
bandit. The novels of English life are IntereTk
hardened llbra^
Miss
E. P. Thompson—Teacher
Seniors
humorous. A few of the better ones are ”FuirF|and ^k "
Georgraphy, Instrumental Mus^.
Select Plays of AEschylus
History, and Modern Languages
Leslie, “The Good Companions” by J B Priestlv “S
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e™’ A play of Terence
Salhe D. Reeder—Assistant Teachef
Mental Philosophy
of Grammar and Arithmetic **
Moral Philosophy
Assistant Teacher of Drawing
Acoustics and Optics
Geography and History
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First Faculty
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THE SPECTATOR
Dorm Doings
Fishing Season Opens
By Ruth McFadden
Because the people on first floor
appear to be highly insulted because
we stated that they are rather quiet
it seems altogether fitting that they
should be mentioned first. Jean Kil
gore kindly consented to help gather
news about these heretofore unheard
from people, and so it is our extreme
pleasure to present the happenings on
first floor.
Who is the first floor girl who takes
6 or 8 different kinds of medicine.
Suspicions are directed toward a
certain well known athlete.
Betty Hillier was the proud posses
sor of a 5-lb. Easter egg. Your guess
is as good as ours as to the donor.
We’re glad to have Marion Peter
son back again. Rita Russell, her
roomate, was quite lost without her.
First floor would like to suggest
Averil Wheeling as their finest posses
sor of that intangible thing dubbed
personality.
They also claim that Helen McGogney and Jean McQuilken are two
of the best student teachers on the
campus.
Curious facts: Alice Houk knits a
sweater a day; first floor broke down
and made some noise the other day;
- this--is—n.11- first floor can think of.
Our sincere thanks to Miss Kilgore
for aiding with the above, and a re
gret that we angered first floor. Also
a hope that the noise will continue,
our sympathies to the proctors.
This years student teachers must
have some sort of a magnetic power
over their pupils. The latter are alavays in the dormitory visiting their
instructors.
Jean Kilgore, Betty Hillier, Jean
Kanhofer, and Rita Russell have
started golf training again, though
by the looks of the weather it is
doubtful if they will ever get a
chance to play.
Quite a number of the girls are
still ill from their Easter vacation.
Our best wishes for a speedy reco very.
And still our menagerie increases.
Suliy received a Jeep for Easter, but
she doesn’t feed it orchids.
Also
there are innumerable bunnies, both
stuffed and chocolate.
Virginia Kaltenbach wishes to in
form Ruth Anderson that she receiv
ed a telephone call from Ligioner.
And for anyone’s information she
went up in the clouds then and hasn’t
come down yet.
A regular Easter parade is being
held in the dorm, with all the new
outfits being properly shown and ad
mired.
Page Three
Faculty Entertains
Trio Goes Abroad
Very seldom do we hear of the
faculty entertaining students, but
when they do we hear of the party
for weeks. We hear of a recent par
ty held at the home of a faclty radio
enthusiast where the guests became
so interested that they kept the sur
rounding neighbors awake till mid
night. It seems that a certain facul
ty member, the same faculty mem
ber, had just finished building a loud
speaker and microphone and his
wife’s guests for the evening furnish
ed excellent material for the testing
of his new masterpiece. The appara
tus worked much like the machines
used in broadcasting stations for au
ditions and naturally all wanted to
hear what their voices would sound
.ike over the radio. LaRita Kramer
did an e Esther (the loud speaker was placed
on the front porch) and it was so
good that Mr. Park Skelton from
across the street asked for more and
he got it, plenty of it till midnight.
We found that Chalmer Swift’s voice
sounded just divine and we asked him
to sing several times Alone but Dar
Miller kept heckling him with his at
tempts at the Mills Brother Stuff.
One Alumnus of Edinboro gave an
excellent imitation of Rudy Vallee,
and again this made a hit with our
friend Mr. Skelton who seemed to
enjoy our broadcast very much, yet
we don’t know what the other neigh
bors thought of it. LaRita Kramer
again was the star when she imitated
Gracie Allen so perfectly. Thus the
evening wore on, with Clarence Heft
microphone shy and Ed Noble’s
clowning and wit. We would like to
try it again sometime and perhaps
we would find more talented students
on campus. How about it, Mr. and
Mrs. McCommons?
The Trio goes abroad again and
guess where this time?
To Guys
Mills. The trio played the same program that they played on previous
trips, and Jim Wilson sang several
Sol'Os to a very attentive group ~of
Guys Mills high school students.
After the musical program of the
afternoon, Miss Wilson spoke to the
high school seniors. Not being pre
sent when Miss Wilson spoke, I only
guess as to the content of her speech
which I believe was on the advant
ages offered to the prospective teach
er at Edinboro State Teachers
College. The students were given a
good example of the advantages be’ng offered here as a group of very
talentedI musicians performed for
them. It
] would be quite an advantage to be able to hear them quite
often.
A SUGGESTION
Dear Editor:
We have, on the campus, a re-furnished and re-decorated building,- or
iginally built for and for a number
of years used as a Men’s Dormitory.
During the last years of this latter
period, Professor Hermon Sackett
had his residence here as Dean of
Men, and continued to live here for
some time after retirement from act
ive service as a member of the fac
ulty.
I suggest that this building, now
renewed and refitted for student
teacher headquarters and for office
rooms for faculty members and col
lege organizations, be hereafter cal
led Sackett Hall and thereby named
for one who is an alumnus, who has
been a beloved teacher, and who still
remains a loyal friend and supporter
of his Alma Mater.
What the immortal Barnum said
about a sucker being born every
minute has certainly proven true in
Edinboro. We feel certain there are
more suckers in college than ever
graduated from high school.
A clever Edinboro Student, realiz
ing this, conceived an idea whereby
he might gain some financial benefit
and at the same time make fools out
of a great number of his associates.
His apparatus consists of an ordinary
pop bottle cap with a penny conceal
ed between the cork and tin portions,
an unscrupulous accomplice, and any
of the many varieties of suckers (not
including faculty members).
When a sucker enters his place of
business, our friend places the bottle
cap on the table, places a second pen
ny under the cap, and looks at the
sucker, saying, “I’ll bet you ten cents
there is a penny under that cap”.
The reply is of course, “What do you
take me for, a sucker?” Our magi
cian leaves the room and his accom- .
plice (a sober-faced Irishman prefer
red) removes the second coin with
the remark, “We’ll fix that guy.”
When the magicion returns the
cucker has his ten cents out to bet
there isn’t a penny under the cap.
Imagine, if you have not seen or
experienced, the face and feelings of
the poor sucker when the second cent
is removed from benath the cork.
The Spectator expects to publish the
names of all Edinboro’s in the next
ImoUc. We—arc expecting
great
many bribes in the meantime.
Official Delagates
Many colleges and universities are
sending official delegates to the cele
bration of the seventy-fifth anniver
sary of Edinboro’s service to North
western Pennsylvania. Some of them
are alumni of Edinboro; some are
former teachers here; and others
know of Edinboro through its reputa
tion alone. Regardless oT their re
lations to this institution we bid them
welcome.
The official delegates to this cele
bration are: Dr. Clarence F. Ross.
Allegheny College; Edward Kuberski,
Alliance College; Dr. D. D. Pierce,
Clarion State Teachers College;
President Weir Ketler, Grove City
College; President C. R. Foster, In
diana State Teachers College; H. E.
McConnell, Juniata College; PresiCollege; Dr. George Fickes, Layfaydent Clyde A. Lynch, Lebanon Valley
ette College; President Dallas W.
Armstrong, Lockhaven State Teach
ers College; Dr. Dearborn, New York
University; Dean Will Grant Chamb
ers, Pennsylvania State College; Dr.
Gerald D. Whitney, University of
Pittsburgh; President R. L. Rowland,
Shippensburg State Teachers College,
President C. S. Miller, Slippery Rock
State Teachers College; Dean Geo.
E. Walka, Temple University; Hiram
Sackett, Washington and Jefferson
College; and Dr. Alexander C. Burr,
Westminster College.
THE SPECTATOR
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Off Campus News
Reeder Snooze
By Eleanor Harned
By Walter Hall
Evelyn Covert has had a bad case
of spring fever, but we hear she is
recuperating nicely.
Bunny Williams attended a wedWe
ding during Easter .vacation,
wonder whose it was.
You should try the new flat sponge
cakes that Estella Luke and Betty
Kafferlin are making a specialty of.
Reederite Is First To Swim
In Lake This Season
Genevieve Miller has slept con
tinuously since vacation.
Betty Kafferlin received a dozen
Oeauuiui roses for- - Easter. — -Pi o ttynice, Betty.
Estella—Did you have Sox last
year for gym?
Elizabeth—No, we wore black
stockings.
Reeder is certainly proud of the
fact that one of its occupants was the
first to open the bathing season at
Edinboro Lake.
I am told that the
ice breaker took a beautiful back-fly
assisted by one of the fair maidens of
Haven Hall. Have you dried your
clothes yet, Hank?
Edinboro Stylist Introduces
New Spring Togs for Men
-What-is-the woll-drcssed-Edinboro
man wearing this spring? It seems
that the latest in men’s wear is a
snappy black and white sport coat
with a jumbo sized red bow tie to set
it off. This particular set-up has
been imported from Meadville. Keep
Norma hangs the alarm clock out
your eye on Mike for future details.
the window every Sunday night at
Odd bits....Reeder is glad to see
10:00 for Betty.
Anne Mineo gets awfully homesick Arden back, but very sorry that he
when she doesn’t go home for week is not staying on campus.
ends.
Ella Mills is lonesome now that
Bea McGahen has gone to Erie to do
student teaching.
Wanda Swiecki declares that she’s
never been in love.
Is Vergie ever popular.
Two
whopping Easter eggs for one little
girl.
The girls who have been out for
speedball are using canes in one hand
and grabbing the bannister with the
other trying to climb up and down
stairs. Ask Franny.
Bea Hall is so-o-o-o- glad that none
of her classes begin before 10:00
Jim Smith, thanks to a faculty
member, has a novel way to stop hic
coughs. Simply take a drink of
water from the edge of the glass that
is away from you. This is indeed
most unconventional, nevertheless I
am told that it brings results.
W. A. A.
By Martin Schweller
By Betty Kafferlin
It has been learned that the Y. M.
C. A. Spring Training Conference is
to be held during the week-end begin
ning May 1. It is hoped that this or
ganization will be able to send it’s
newly-elected officers to this interest
ing and informative meeting, so that
they may be well-posted on the latest
and most efficient methods of execut
ing those activities which most con
cern the Y.
There has been some talk of a co
operative movement between the Y.
MLC. A. and the Y. W. C. A. concern
ing the matter of an informal~Hance
for those who are to be our guests on
high school day of our festival pro
gram. It is understood that the
necessary finances to sponsor such an
affair are to come from the appro
priations given to each of the re
spective organizations.
As yet there are no definite plans
on this matter but it is the opinion of
this writer that an affair of this sort
should have the hearty approval and
cooperation of both Y’s, because
some of these guests are bound to be
our future students who will con
tribute to the well-being of Edinboro.
On April 7, the 3:15 activities
group were hostesses at a tea, which
proved one of the most successful to
be staged under the auspices of the
W. A. A. These teas, newly innovat
ed this year, have won much popular
ity in fostering friendship and social
contacts among the girls and women
of the campus.
The sport enthusiasts are now find
ing varied means of expending their
energy. Tennis, archery, and speed
ball rank as the most popular sports.
Tenni- under_ Miss Ruttle’q super
vision, is making fine progress in
both the beginning and advanced
classes. Mary Ow and Mickey Mc
Fadden are assisting Miss Ruttie in
teaching the technique of archery
to all g.ris desirous of obtaining this
knowledge and skill.
Speedball is
advancing notably under the efficient
direction of Frances Cochanides.
We feel assured of the success of
our spring sport program, The large
attendances at practice are most
promising but even a larger turnout
at these activities is urged.
About all we ever get out of some
I have won every argument I ever parties is the relief of taking off our
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