Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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Even more then a teacher is probably the best description that could be written of Miss Sarah Spurgeon, associate professor of art on Central ' s faculty. Even more than a teacher —a true inspiration to her present and her former students is this artist and art educator. The Hyakem staff Is proud to dedicate this year ' s annual to Miss Spurgeon as a small thank you for the hours and hours she has devoted to aiding college and community projects of all kinds, to working with present students and alumni, to encouraging neophyte artists and future educators in their hopes, their dreams, their ambitions. The Hyakem staff hopes this will be at least a small measure of recognition for the literally miles of dance decorations, table decorations, wall and dorm decorations and down town decorations Miss Spurgeon has planned and worked on with her art students over the years she has spent on Central ' s faculty. And. too. we want to dedicate our 1959 annual to this teacher who, no matter how busy she is. always makes it a point to have plenty of time, ample time, to listen with real understanding and sympathetic interest to a student ' s problems, troubles, joys, sorrows, sue cesses . . . dreams. Miss Spurgeon came to Central ' s faculty in 1939 from Buena Vista College, Iowa. 8