Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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President Roswell Gray Ham leaves Mount Holyoke this June with the class of 1957. 11 is retirement marks the end of forty years of college teaching and administration in New England and the Far West. Mount Holyoke has given us four good years; President Ham has given her twenty. In those years he has endeared himself to his community of women as scholar, friend, and civic ser- vant. He has introduced two decades of freshmen to the Panganaskian ideal of Mary Lyon, and he has done much to make this institution for the whole woman a richer place in which to live and work. As teacher, he has brought alive Shakespeare's Falstaff and Lear. As admin- istrator, he has presided over a continuous development of the college's physical and financial assets. As head of the campus family, he has spent many '’gracious1' Wednesday evenings with dormitory chicken, coffee, and conversation, and, with Mrs. Ham, made the president’s house the goal of student carolers at Christmas, and a pleasant place to visit all year long. He has been a leading man in Faculty Shows, a leader of extra-campus charities, a pioneer and a preserver of tradition. So we know' that we w ill remember him. We think that some ol our memories of Mount Holyoke will be his memories too. And we dedicate this Llamarada to him knowing that in a very real sense he has made much of its message possible. Dr. and Mrs. Gettelh Dr. and Mrs. Ham.