The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-06-08
Over flow Audience
Hears National
Educators Address


commencement audience that
overlooked spacious Jarman Hall
Sunday afternoon.
He told the colleges 100 grad
yates that teaching. in the final
analysis, has the task Of pre-
serving the dignity Of man and
maintaining freedom of the soul.
Modern day complexities and a
growing population will require
vastly greater numbers and the
best trained minds and PERSONAL
ties We can find, the Washington
educational administrator declar-
ed.
Dr. Brownell said that chal-
legeS in the field of teaching lie
in the tasks Of IL preservation
of knowledge and its Transmission
from age to age, 90 extending
the frontiers of knowledge and
opening new horizons of learning
and '3l preparing students for
vocation and successful meaning
ful living
Teacher Tasks
Not the least task Of the
teacher is helping to form minds
and Wills strong enough to meet
and master the worlds needs III
science literature. the arts medi-
cine. politics and government d"
DR.. BroWhell declared.
The greatest needs in American
public education, he said, are fill
Ing the seriously depleted ranks of
elementary and secondary educa-
ton which lack is "Shortchaneing
the lives of thousands of young
Americans" creation of wider vo-
cationaI training opportunities.
and solving the problem created
by the relatively poorly educated
drop outs from the early high
school years
With one-fouth Of America :
college age young people cnrollm
~ institutions Of higher learning
contrasted With the three per
cent that enrolled in 1856. Or
Brownell predicted that small
community colleges viii assume
an increasing Importance They
offer CONVENIENCE and savings I'd
the increasing numbers of eli
glbleS entering.
Degrees Conferred
After comforting degrees on the
109 students, President Dabney S.
Lancaster announced that two
had graduated with high honors.
Patricia Palmer Altwegg, of War
wick Va and Elizabeth Ann
Thomas. of Newport News. Va.
TWenty-four more were gradu-
ated with honors. Barbara Assatd
Jean Carolc Baber. Lynch Cecil
Bradshaw Gail Dixon Dickson.
Mary Ann Evans, Elizabeth Elcy
Islin, Ellen Marie Porter Demctra
Steger Mary Denny Wilson.
Also Mary Anne King. Ann
Harlan Mallory Elise Anne Wente.
Barbara Ann Blackman. Elizabeth
Cotton Gillikin, joyce Booth VIII
ekrSon Mary Lou Barlow. Beverly
Ann Johnson. Enda Lucille Mann.
CaliSta Ann Moore. Betty Jane
NewSon, Shirley Grey Roby. Syl-
via Louise West. Laura Alice
Beavers and Doris Rea Horne.
DR. Lancaster introduced Dowcu
j. Howard, State superintendent
of public instruction. vino was a
campus visitor for the day. and
announced a number Of faculty
changes and promotions to the
10th commencement audience in
the newly Aforementioned audi
tCrium.
Glass Gift
The vast audience came to rev
erent attention for the exercises
with an invocation by the R-v.
B. r Bruner. Farmville Baptist
pastor and sat in admiration dur
ing a sensitive rendition of the
beautiful open Your Eyes. by
MacFarlane. by the College Choir.
under Dr. John Molnars d.rec-
ton
After briefly making a final
farewell to the graduates. Dr.
Lancaster announced that the
class was leaving $3.50 as a Gift
the college to purchase a telc-
vision set for the Senior rccrea
ton rooms, and the balance to be
used for purchase Of 2 painting
to be added 70 the college colIcc-
ton by Virginia artists.
Earlier the same day at II d
m. the Rev DR., Warner Earle
FuSselle. pastor Of the R.verncnt
Avenue Baptist Church in Lvrch-
burg, had addressed the gradual
ing class at the baccalaueate
exercises.
\ Bacc3laurcate
4 Taking as his text the - {
verse of the ninth chapter of Mat
thew in which the sick woman
had touched the hem of Jesus
Christ and had been made whole.
DR.. Russell gave the graduate five
points to keep in mind.
First. that Christ was ana is
concerned with the individual.
and if only one is touched out Of
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