Lakeside School - Numidian Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Dedication GRDINARILY, MAN AND HIS DEEDS do not be- come legend until death and time and myth have made fact nehulous and fancy clear. Occasionally, however, a man hecomes a living legend, and it is to such a man that the Class of 1957 dedicates this yearhook. Twenty-five years ago or more, a headmaster of Lake- side School, moved hy what can only he called clair- voyance, appointed to the faculty it man who, in a sense, was and is an anachronisni, a Renaissance man trans- planted to a world of expanded and expanding knowledge. For twenty-five years and more, this man has demon- strated to succeeding generations of Lakesiders what real intellectual curiosity is. And in the process, he has un- consciously created legends ahout himself. These legends, which are legion, are not confined to his classroom deeds, hut extend to all fields of Lakeside life. ln his younger days, for example, no one could kick a foothall farther than he, or throw a sharper-hreaking Four FREDERICK W. BLEAKNEY curve, or play a better game of tennis or handball. Yet he is no giant, except in will. Tales are told, too, of the odd hours he keeps, of his waking at one to read or write until dawn. Other legends tell of his prodigal memory, of his ahility to recite page after page of poetry without reference to a hook. Yet all these skills, all this indefatigahle searching after the what and why of man, all these legendary ex- ploits, are not part of a conscious effort to hecome a legendg rather are they the tools with which this man works in his chosen field. A self-effacing man, he is not one to impose his personality on his students and so to teach them. He teaches hy indirection, hy methods that at first seem eireuitous-in short, hy encouraging his students to ferret out the truth, to recognize it as the truth, and to make it inescapahly theirs, It is with affection and gratitude that we, the Class of 1957, dedicate this Numidian to a legendary character, Frederick W. Bleakney.

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