Barstow School - Weathercock Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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The quallty of a heart s not captured by words nor can any artlst do more than suggest lt But perhaps thls measure of ones belng IS captured by contaglon Medlll Cates IS stlll Wlth us She IS more ahve now than many persons walklng th e streets thls moment whose splrlt ual glaucoma causes them to leave onlv footprlnts where they have been Her vlbrancj stlll sparks the reactlons of peo ple partlcularly old Pretend ers on whatever far rlm of the world they may be Belng a Pretender wlth Mrs Gates was llke belng a tunlng fork She transmltted through us a sense of belng beyond our own CHPHCIIICS From her we learned that to pretend IS to llve for that whlle some place outslde ourselves to llve xsltll appreclatlve perceptlon an d bolsterous affectlon These characterlstlcs, helghtened by enthuslasm were what enabled Mrs Gates to lead the Pretend ers through a quarter century s splrlted endeavor and these stlll endure as our lnherltance from her Two of the wearlest words ln today s vocabulary are adol escent and lnsecurlty If ac cordlng to lnodern llghts, Mrs Gates was playlng Wlth dvnamlte ln worklng wlth teenagers she never had a qualm nor dld they From the changeable moods of that age only one part came for Mrs Gates her compelllng expectancy made evervone not only do her best, but actually be at her best Blographles of famous people stress the lnfluence of certaln lmpacts durlng thelr llves, too llttle IS sald of lmportant lmpacts on the IIVCS of lesser persons Genlus IS so lntently focused that lt wlll probably develop ln lts lntended dlrectlon, regardless of IIIHUCDCC But the world IS made of llttle people, whose taste of greatness must be achleved vlcarlously by appreclatlon Appreclatlon IS not a passlve thlng, though many make ll so It should be agalnst the law to say When vou are older you Wlll appreclate , as though ll were a wheelchalr pastlme Full ap preclatlon demands splrltual callsthenlcs and an elastlc vlewpolnt to aW3lt the commencement of atrophy ln order to become pllable, IS unreasonable Pretendlng wlth Mrs Gates developed an ap preclatlon for a galaxy of experlences and left us wlth an appetlte for llvlng The lnsecurlty whlch IS fashlonable today becomes burdensome unless one enjoys self consclous ness lf thls self I9 busv experlenclng the slgnlficance of thlngs about lt, the feellng of lnsecurlty wlll have to be postponed untll later, a postponement whlch qulte posslbly IS permanent Some mlght ask why anyone should bother to lean so far out lnto the world, to whlch Mrs l l , K Q 3 . . ., ,Y . ' 1 , , ,V 9 ' f ' , P 9 1 , I , Y iw, . . . ,Ha 9 A 9 l ' . , ,4 . H54 . - - - -- ' ' f Q1 I 4 41 34 ' , I I , , ' I V . ' . , . , ' u , ' , , . . . . . . . . . . - 9 ,S . . ,, . . . 1 , . . . . . as . . . . . - - F. ,, .

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