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THE ALUMNUS IOWA ST A TE TEACHERS COLLEGE Vol. XIV Cedar Falls, Iowa, October, 1930 No. 4 Campus Elms Shelter Outdoor Commencement EV IVlNG a tradition of more than twenty­ of ]iplomas by President Latham and the bene-­ R five ye11rs ago nearly three thousand student. diction by Father Wieneke closed the exercises. and friends as~embled ou the Ca mpus greenswar,l In introducing Professor ·waiters as the of the College, Thursday e,·ening, August 21, to speaker of the evening, President Latham de­ take part in and at.tend an outdoor comm ence­ clared that the veteran educator wa '' a sower ment program which from tho standpoint of color of inspiration and a lover of truth,'' and that and impressiveness surpassed previous indoor '' wherever graduates and former students of the programs. Iowa State Teachers College may be found, Three hundred and seventy-five gradua tos there you can meet his ardent admirers.'' Th e at in the center section of the natural amphi­ text of the introduction in full follows: theatre which was accentuated by bleachers, President Introduces Speaker seats, and chairs ananged in the form of a large In the earlier half of his long and distin­ bowl. Speakers and faculty members a. sembled guished administration, when this spot on which on the large platform were clearly visible at all we are gathered this evening was a weed-patch, points in the audience. Brilliant electric lights · when places on this now beautiful Campus were strung overhead provided light and color for the swamps over-run with bull-rushes, when this and amplifiers placed at various points occasion, now proud hill boasted but three old building , in the audience aided in carrying the voices of the great President-Emeritus of this institution speakers and singers to every part of the the invited to this ca,mpus a number of the best amphitheatre. minds and most skillful teachers in this section First Outdoor Exercise of the country to aid him in his discouraging The Summer Term Commencement marked struggle to make of the old Iowa State Normal the first outdoor exercise since the completion School a potent factor in the growth and devel­ of the Auditorium Building in 1901. Previous to opment of higher education in this state and a that time all commencement exercises were held constructive force in the development of teacher outdoors at the nor,th end of the Campus. After training throughout this land. One of the e men the completion of the Auditorium Building the is the speaker of the evening. exercises were held there, but the large crowds P rofessor Walters was born in Pennsylvania attending each year made it necessary to hold in 1857 and educated in Howe's Academy and the commencement programs in the Men's Gym­ Iowa We leyan College at Mt. Pleasant. For nasium beginning with the year of 1926. fifteen years following the receipt of his bac­ G. W. Walters, professor at the College for calaureate degree, he served his native section the past thirty-five years, gave the commence­ of the state in various educational capacities~ as ment address, speaking on "The Teacher in a as principal of the Ft. Madison High School, l of Whittier College, as as­ Changing World." President 0. R. Latham con­ assistant principa sistant principal of Howe's Academy, and finally ferred degrees and diplomas, and Reverend Fath­ as professor of mathematics and then as profe~­ er J . C. Wieneke, of St. Patrick's Church of sor of philosophy and psychology of his Alma Cedar Falls, pronounced the invocation. Mater. pro­ The program opened with the academic His service at this institution began in 1895 cession led by the College Band. This feature and has continued uninterruptedly ever since; was followed by the invocation by the Reverend three years as assistant professor of mathematics F ather J. C. Wieneke. Another number by the and thirty-two years as professor of education. College Band, and two numbers by a mixed The last fourteen years of this latter period he chorus under the direction of C. A. Fullerton, has served as head of his department, and with Head of the Public School Music Department, the close of this summer session he is giving ·up preceded Mr. Walter's address. The conferring all administrative duties to devote his entire 2 THE ALUMNUS October time to his greatest professional love-the teach­ would enter- a narrow selfishness which l ed ing of youth. eventually to forcible destruction of barriers by Wlliile Professor Walters has made a distinc­ secession or revolution. tive record in this institution as administrative Today we are in the midst of a new Renais­ head of his department, he has gained his great­ sance, more wide spread, more insistent, more est recognition and made his largest contribution rapid in its movements than that of four hun­ to the upbuilding of this college through the dred years ago. medium of •his classroom instruction. Wherever It is characterized by the following qualities graduates and former students of the Iowa State among many others: Teachers College may be found, there you can 1. The rapid development and spread of sci­ meet his ardent admirers-men and women who ence-invention-commerce-to the farth­ love him because of his absolute honesty, his est corners of the earth. The airplane flies kindly sympathy, his sublime patience, his un­ over the poles and again startles the sav­ biased understanding, his ceaseless devotion to ages of the tropical jungle. duty, and his homely philosophy of life. 2. Changing economic currents- commercial It is, then, with a distinct f eeling of honor routes- money centers- trade barriers- due and a fine sense of pride that I present to the largely to the late war. members of this graduating class and to the 3. Vast accumulations of capital in produc­ citizens of this commonwealth a t eacher and a tion- machine-facture-and the consequent philosopher-a sower of inspiration and a lover unemployment and leisure life problems. of truth, Professor G. W. Walters, who will 4. Vast output of literature to the increasing­ speak upon the subject, '' The Teacher in a ly literate masses with the consequent in­ Changing World. " clusion of their thought and action in deci­ Speaker Says Personality Makes Teachers sion of world questions. 5. The emancipation of woman- giving her Following the President's speech of intro­ the ballot-her entrance into business ac­ duction Professor Walters delivered the com­ tivities- literature- art and science. mencement address in which he declared that 6. Irritation on account of old restraints, so­ personality, without which the best equipped cial, educational, national-the breaking school is but a workshop, constitutes eighty down of the old conventionalities-the rest­ percent of the teaching process. The new t each­ less masses wanting change-or a good rea- er must have personality, must be an apostle of . son why the present status should continue. the democratic theory of society, must recognize The lessening control of the churches-the the fact that educational opinion is in a stat e of 7. increasing development of philanthropy constant flux and try to keep abreast of the beyond church limits as endowments, foun­ changes, and she must keep character develop­ for general human welfare. Ten ment as the main end of her effort. The new dations times as much has been given along these teacher is tolerant. She must know the human lines in this country the past year, as has spirit and be above all prejudice. The complete been given to forward distinctly church speech was as follows: ends. The Teacher in a Changing World 8. The breaking down of race prejudice and Four hundred years ago, the world was in the growth of services founded on the the midst of the movement known as the Revival universal human-regardless of '' race, sex, of Learning. or previous condition of servitude. '' It was marked by three lines of activity, 9. The world wide movement of the civilized narrow and exclusive: world to rid itself of the age long evils re­ 1. Book learning called scholarship-conceited, sulting from stimulants and habit forming pedantic, exalted in its own estimate-do­ drugs. It will be a long, hard fight, but a minating professional life.