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FRANK HESS Mr. Frank Hess was born in Everett, Massachusetts, where he later attended the public schools. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Education at Harvard University, he became successively, the submaster of Sanborn Seminary, New Hampshire, principal of the Whalen, Massachusétts High School, and princi- pal of the Lebanon High School at Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is now completing his thirty-first year as in- Kingstown, structor in chemistry at Classical. With- in these thirty-one years he has also found time to give evening and afternoon instruction in chemistry at the Wesson and Springfield Hospitals and at North- eastern University. He has been a scout master too, and he is still a lay preacher in the Methodist Church. Now that he has sent four sons and two daughters through college, Mr. Hess has decided to take a well earned vacation. He and Mrs. Hess will go south for the winters and spend their summers at Mascoma Lake near Enfield, New Hampshire. There they will cften be joined by the Hess family including their eight grandchildren. Mr. Hess has a sympathetic approach toward his students which inspires them with confidence and makes the subject matter seem less difficult. He is at once the father, the teacher, the counsellor. His clever analogies and his sense of humor translate a page of involved and tricky chemistry into a page from an His masterful technique in ‘‘human- is the key to his success. exciting novel. izing chemistry’ ’ 14 His is the passion of the true teacher; he has worked for spiritual rather than material reward. He is not only a teacher of chemistry but a teacher of character. His fatherly ways have endeared him to the entire student body, and kind thoughts will always linger in the minds of the boys and girls who were privileged to study under him. His never flagging patience seems to indicate his belief in the adage: ‘‘Patience is bitter but the fruit is sweet.’’ Each of his pupils knows all these grand qualities; we are only confirming them. Here’s a secret: Mr. Hess is hoarding gold — the gold of good will, affection, and admiration of his students.
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CLARENCE M. HALL “If you like your subject, and enjoy working with young people, teaching is a great adventure.’’ This is what Mr. Hall said when asked abcut his forty-five years cf teaching experience. Mr. Hall, who is to retire this year, has had the privilege of living in an age of astounding scientific advancement. During his lifetime since 1876 he has seen developed the telephone, automo- bile, X-ray, airplane, radio, and radar, — the atom has been split and the moon has been bombarded with radar im- pulses. ‘‘A teacher of science during this time,’’. Mr. Hall says, “has had a thrilling experience.”’ In the horse and buggy days Mr. Hall attended the Springfield schools. He was graduated in 1894 from the old high school which was then a red brick build- ing that stood on the site of the present Classical Junior High School. At the graduation exercises, at that time, stud- ents gave short addresses and Mr. Hall, whose interest in science had been aroused by the late William Orr, who was then a science teacher, gave an illustrated talk on the ‘Geology of Springfield”. Four years later he was graduated with honors from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The next year he received his master’s degree from there for research work in high voltage and high frequency phenomena. After college and kefore beginning his teaching career, Mr. Hall held successively pcsiticns in the testing department of the General Electric Company, in block signal development of the Pennsylvania Rail- road lines, and as draughtsman and assistant designer for an automobile concern. From this position he went to Washington D.C., to institute science courses and design laboratories for the new Technical High School there. In 1906 he returned to this city to become a mem- ber of the science department at Classical. In 1914 he was made head of the science department. He has also been a member of the faculties of the Evening High School, the Electrical Trade School, the Junior College and Northeastern University. With all this work he found time to act as consultant to a local firm 15 ne eed of patent attorneys and to write a book on ‘‘Model Making”’ as well as articles for educational journals. Scientific aptitude runs in the Hall family. Mr. Hall has two sons, both electrical engineers. He also has two granddaughters. During the summer vacations Mr. Hall has carried on extensive garden operations in Wilbraham, but his main hobby is the designing and building of apparatus for demonstrating principles of physics. For this purpose he has a completely equipped shop at home. His future plans are indefinite, but after some travel he may continue to design apparatus and possibly develop a line of mechanical toys. When Mr. Hall retires this June, Classical will lose an outstanding teacher. There are many former students, now adults, who owe their present success in the scientific or technical fields to the inspiration and guidance they received in Mr. Hall’s classes. All his students remember him for his fairness, for his painstaking care and thoroughness, and for his genu- ine interest in each individual student’s difficulties.
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