Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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C o gin emnrtam ALBERT GOULD ELDRIDGE ' 1884 - 1936 r The qualities of Mr. Eldridge's character already recounted here are those by which we in the training school shall always remember him. We appreciate this special privilege of voicing our special respect and affection. With all the perplexing details of his responsibilities, with the added burden of failing health, he always kept within the scope of his thought and interest the children and the teachers of the training school. It was no small achievement that due to him the training school personnel felt its oneness with the Teachers College in purpose and in understanding. We remember him for the truly human interest which brought him often to the training classrooms. He rose above the mechanical routine of admini- stration to sense the child as the heart of education. We shall remember those occasions of a social sort when the spirit of fun swept away the restraint of his oflice and his grand sense of humor and gift of fun-making gave great joy to those with him. We shall remem- ber him as a personal adviser whose penetrating understanding was tem- pered by a true sympathy. We who were here to stand by his side when the continuance of this institution was in doubt know how truly deeply he loved the school. We shall above all remember him as a man in the truest sense of the word. His squareness and trustworthiness find significant expression in the record of placement of our graduates, a task and accom- plishment that was his. We remember him for his quiet, firm insistence on what he felt to be decent and right when the easier way would have been to compromise with conscience and to court personal popularity. He must, we may be sure, remain in our memories as a man of courage almost beyond belief, who day after day gave way by not a fraction of an inch to the misery that would have broken the will and courage of the average man. To have known one who faced death calmly, bravely and with self-control, to have known one who did not know what it was to spare himself, who drove himself to the duties cheerfully and vigorously as long as mortal strength endured, to have known Albert Eldridge is to have been granted a rare privilege and inspiration. R. F. H. Ilflgt' nine

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MISS PEARSON If any North Adams Normal School grraduate, State Teachers' College student. faculty member, past or present, were asked to give a synonym for art, the answer would be Miss Pearsong so completely does she express the art life of this college. Everyone who has learned through her wit and wisdom enjoys more of the beauty of livinggg the eye is led to look at a tall tuft of flowers beside the brook g each drinks the wine the morning spills and sees the light on yonder hills. Although Miss Pearson has warm and understanding' appreciation of the Berkshires. she is quite the wanderer to places strange and fanciful. Her eyes of wonder and hands of skill have given to many the joy of vicarious travel, and now that another dream argues the death of an old duty we wish her great happiness in her continued search for beauty. G. L. D. page fcn