Great Neck North High School - Arista Yearbook (Great Neck, NY)

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MR. HOWARD EDELMAN English Brooklyn, U. of Wisconsin MR MICHAEL ELLISER English Queens, U. of Miami, Si. John’s MR JACK FIELDS English NYU. MR CHARLES R LEWIS English West Chcsicr. U. of Denver Sponsor, Guide Post 26

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learn, and gladly teach” —Chaucer MR CROSBY E. REDMAN Head. English Bowdoin. U. of Washington. Columbia. U. of Maine. U. of Colorado, N.Y.U. SALUTE Wc salute Mr. Crosby E. Redman, who is rcuring after nineteen years as the venerable head of our English Department. He is com- pleting a distinguished teaching career that has spanned forty-five years in Great Neck and across the country. After his undergraduate work at Bowdoin. Mr. Redman started his career in his native Maine. In Castine he taught five different subjects and served as principal of the three-room high school for two years. Then he continued his graduate work and earned his Masters in English. His gradual cross-country trek included teaching English at New Mexico Military Institute. Lakeside School in Seattle, and Haver- ford School in Pennsylvania. In 1948 Mr. Redman came to Great Neck as English chairman. Here he has taught practically all the department’s courses. He has super- vised various revisions in the English curriculum, and each time his emphasis has been on comprehensive material to provide students with a sound background in literature and composition. Several times he served as principal of the System summer school. In addition, he has edited a short story collection and two drama anthologies, all widely used as high school texts. Outside the classroom Mr. Redman is an insatiable reader. Recently he reread the vast output of James and Faulkner. He also likes gar- dening and spends many hours weeding the lawn and watering his begonias. His faculty friends will testify that he also grows delicious grapes. Although Mr Redman rcgrcLs leaving teaching, he welcomes the forthcoming free time. He and Mrs. Redman plan to see more of their daughters (one a writer, the other a radiologist), to visit Europe again, and then to settle in their new Maine home overlooking Penobscot Bay. There he will “raise dogs and flowers” and carry on his war against the weeds. Mr. Redman is proud of his students: “As I think about our gradu- ates. I am heartened that they arc doing so well after they leave us.” This industrious, august gentleman-with his sharp mind, firm idealism. Yankee humor, dashing pocket handkerchiefs has indeed been an impressive figure at North Senior. And his many students acknowledge and remember the vital part Mr. Redman has played in their success. MISS VIRGINIA BAERMAN English St. Lawrence. Queens, State U. (Albany) Sponsor. Junior Red Cross MISS JOYCE M BUDINSKI English Nazareth. St. John’s, Middlebury. U. of Rochester MISS ANGELINE DUCAS English Emerson, U. of Vermont 25

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MISS VALERIE W NELSON English U. of Pennsylvania. N.Y.U. MISS MARION M O’CONNOR English State U. (Albany). Fordham. Middleburv. N.Y.U. Asst. Sponsor. Senior Class MISS MURIEL M. PAIGE English College of New Rochelle. Columbia MRS. MARY JANE PETERSON English Wellesley. Ohio State, Harvard 27