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Page 10 text:
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DEDICATION Our first class with Miss Emma Mae Laney. Professor of English, was for innumerable students, a year-long spring. The compelling warmth of her appreciation for literature and ever new enthusiasm for learning acted as the sun on the first stirring leaves of our minds, calling them to make the hard effort to grow up into a seemingly inexplicable world which would seem the more understandable and yet the more won- drous as we attained greater stature from which to look about us. In every class after that, we rediscov- ered our minds when Miss Laney would share ideas with us as on a comparable level, and we became peers in appreciation — or at least, potential peers with an incentive. She brought home to all of us the pleasure of learning, the unequaled delight of minds encounter- ing living ideas. Steering us away from the over- enthusiastic reading of our own meaning into a work, she still respected any provable differing interpretations. But it has been not only English majors and her particular sophomores who have benefited from Miss Laney. Her loving loyalty to Agnes Scott has had many different forms: a deep concern for the college ' s spirit of learning, its standards and attitudes. She was chairman of the A.S. Lecture Association from 1935 until 19.53, and as one of her colleagues stated. She served with distinction. Her gracious hospitality warmly expressed the college ' s welcome to visiting speakers such as Lord Cooper. Robert Hutchins. Carl Sandburg, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. It was largely due to her efforts that the community first enjoyed visits from Robert Frost, in 1935-6, then 1939-40, and annually from 1944. As a result of their own personal friendship, she has been able to contribute generously to the Frost Collection in the library. Her integrity as a scholar is widely admired, and she has kept up pro- fessional relationships through her membership in the Modern Language Association and her work with the Atlanta English Club. Her interest in her own field has been intense, but not exclusive, and she has been active in the League of Women Voters, informed and concerned about political affairs and wanting her stu- dents to be aware, also. Her interest in students was not confined to the school room, and her teas for her classes were always a pleasure. A charming conversationalist herself, she inspired good talk from all. and her guests soon re- laxed, feeling welcomed into good company. She would have her courses be not guided tours into new countries, but rather she would teach her students the language, so that we can travel through them our- selves, prepared to glean riches which we might have passed by unseeing, had we not been taught.
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Page 11 text:
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Emma May Laney Why don ' t you cut Saturday and go off this week- end? I have Miss Laney. Oh. This conversation has been heard more than once in the thirty-five years Miss Laney has been at Agnes Scott, and is self- explanatory. After the first bleak hour when our sophomoric false complacency was jerked out from under us by a few rapid questions and an, ' It ' s ob- vious, you haven ' t prepared your lesson, we usually went home and gladly devoted the expected amount of time and care to class preparation, because we recogn- ized the fairness and concern for us that was so integral a part of her teaching. And the next class would go at the exuberant and demanding tempo that comes when a teacher gives unstintingly and gladly of her best and expects and receives a matching quality of effort from her students. Her energy and enthusiasm are legendary and con- tagious, and if we forget the details of the Canterbury pilgrimage we will remember Chaucer ' s spirit and freshness and smile with pleasure vhen we see his name.
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