Bar Harbor High School - Islander Yearbook (Bar Harbor, ME)

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IN MEMORIAM tor a long time she teas here with us, a pleasing personality, often gay anti bantering uith the other teachers, but instantly touched by another's trouble and un- happiness. She was infallibly hintI to her students and considerate oj them, quick with understanding and help. Even as her health declined and her spirits flagged, she kept up a cheerful pretense. After she gave up her position at school, we assumed she was slowly improv- ing, perhai s because it was so easy to do so. Vow that she has “left the precincts of the cheerful day” and is beyond the need of us, we wish we had been more thoughtful of her during her long illness.

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PRINCIPAL HORACE CROX- FORD, sincere and honest, both with himself and others, hasn’t much use for theories, is a middle- of-the-road educator. Democratic in thought and word and deed, zealous for the welfare of young people, with great faith in them, he maintains a school with all the democracy and freedom consistent with the best interests of his boys and girls. ‘They can’t learn how to use freedom in a straight jacket,” he says; then adds, But they must learn self control and accept the responsibility of their actions. That's part of being free.” SUBMASTER CEORCE REN WICK, graying and handsome, teaches Latin and French and exudes geniality and a somewhat sceptical tolerance, speaks French with a beautiful accent and the American language with a Scotch burr in Harvard overtones. A good example himself of the value of the humanistic type of education he believes in. KENNETH MANSFIELD, forth ritht and stalwart American citi zen. with the courage of his con- victions and a trenchant utterance. Brings into the classroom the in- tangible best out of an athletic past and teaches American historv and government and what it means to be a man and an American. Ex- pects land gets! more out of his students than they think they have in them. Tends toward modernism in education: Most of our stu- dents don’t go to college. We mint do more for this big group.” LEON LEWIS, always immacu- late in appearance, urbane and tol- erant. appraises the passing scene and the foibles of his peers with an amused detachment. Teaches man- ual training and manhood, the first expertly, thoughtfully, and the second incidentally, unconsciously, without effort, merely by being his effective self. A cabinet maker of no mean qualifications, he knows the part that line and form have played in good living. MRS LIBBY, with something indefinable but characteristically American and good coming into a room with her. as if out of the more gracious past, is a Wellesley graduate, has an interest in many things, and is a purposeful teacher - • all the better as a teacher from being so fine a parent. (She has two boys and one girl through col- lege and successfully launched in life and another girl doing a good job at Maine) CLIFFORD REYNOLDS teaches college preparatory math to what probably, he says, are the best and most patient high school kids in America, and he likes both the math and the kids. He thinks Vivian Scott’s caricature of him is tops and a very good likeness, though on first glancing at the sketch, he says he wondered if Vivian hadn't traced it from a picture of the grinning skeleton” Voltaire. This Page Sponsored By THE MARY JANE RESTAURANT TRIPP'S RESTAURANT Best Wishes To The Class of 1953 Recommended by AAA Duncan Hines

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