Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Fond Memories of a Unique Spirit This, the yearbook of the Class of 1967, is primarily a lasting record of our days at Latin School. But it should be much more. It should evoke for its readers, both now and in the years to come, the unique spirit that distinguishes this school from all others. It should re-awaken, for the alumni who will turn its pages, fond memories of their Alma Mater. If the 1967 Liber Actorum does these things, it will have accomplished its purpose, and the effort which has produced it will have been more than amply rewarded. STUDENTES PRIMANI RES ATHLETICAE 92 ORDINATIONES SCHOLASTICAE PRAECEPTORES 16

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DEDICATION A teacher’s glory glows reflected In the eyes of his students. He works ivith them; He pushes them; He threatens them. He takes his youth and vitality In his skilled hands and pours it Into their minds. And then he stands back and Watches them work on their own. And in their eyes there lies revealed A little of himself. — Paid A. Jarvie , ' 67 GERARD CLEARY Mr. Cleary leaves Latin School this year after forty-five years as a member of its faculty. Born in Boston, he graduated from B.L.S. in 1915. He obtained his A.B. at Boston College and his Ed.M. at Harvard University. Returning to his Alma Mater, he began his teaching career at Lat- in in 1921, and, in addition, coach- ed minor sports at the school from 1924 to 1930. Mr. Cleary taught Latin at B.L.S. until October of 1942. Dur- ing that year he became a P.F.C. in the Army. On his return to Latin School in 1943, he became a member of the newlv-organized Physical Education Department, but later resumed his teaching of Latin. Praising the training obtained at the school, Mr. Cleary describes it as “excellent for any hard job because it sticks to the funda- mental. The Latin School gradu- ate accepts difficult assignments as a matter of course.” Truly Mr. Cleary, in his long and dedicated career, has exem- plified the tradition of excellence which is so much a part of Boston Latin School. In Gratitude to These Men 4