Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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C ' KS mHET EEH THIRTY-THREE C+ 3 tlrar Bunk (Cummittre Chairman, George Mackey Ex-Officio, Roger Bernhardt Members Anna Austin Theodore Bradley Evelyn Burns Grace Coughlan Beatrice Eisenman William Favorite Marybelle Finger George Hartstone Rupert Lewis Mary Mulvihill Hulda Phillips Ruth Sawyer Paul Silbert Anne Wyner Faculty Advisors Dorothy Taft Leland G. Hollingworth 9

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C -5 NINETEEN thirty three C -9 iftana G. (Sariurr Near the mouth of the St. Croix River, on Maine’s eastern boundary, stands the little city of Calais, where Miss Gardner was born and spent her early years. Here, immediately after graduating from High School, she began the great ad- venture of teaching. Perhaps the motto of the school committee of that day was, “Only the able should survive,” for they invited her to take charge of an ungraded school of forty- two pupils whose ages ranged from five to nineteen years. After nine years of fine service to her town and pupils alike, Miss Gardner joined the procession of the hundreds of Maine teachers called to advancement in the schools of Massachusetts. Following a brief teaching period in Provincetown, she taught for two years in Quincy. From Quincy, Miss Gardner went to Newton remaining for eight years; then she came to Brookline where she was a teacher for twenty years in the Pierce School. How splendid was her service there, all her fellow-workers well remember. It was yeoman service without noticeable comment upon high standards or noble ideals, for she made these abstractions very real to her pupils. Her motto might well have been “No child shall leave this class without a gift from me”, although there was no self-aggrandisement because of the spirit in which her work was performed. With the abolishing of the ninth grade, Miss Gardner was called to the French Department in the High School. Here she met the new demands with her usual efficient readiness. Two summers were spent in the study of French at Middlebury College, Vermont. Then came several entire summers profitably lived in the home of a cultivated French family. Two other summers were made most valuable and enjoyable by trips to Europe, where one was devoted to travel and the other to study at the Sorbonne and the Alliance Francais. Such arduous study, unbroken throughout this teacher’s twelve years’ service, has not only enriched her power and given continued interest to her classes for mastery of the language, but also has helped to interpret to them the history and literature of the French culture. Tt is thro the kind of teaching Miss Gardner has given, the firm holding of her pupils to the completion of each piece of work, and keeping to her own tasks with unfailing rigor, that these boys and girls can look forward to their great tasks of the future with courage and a quiet heart. Life has no better gift to offer to an honored teacher than this faith. 11