Cranbrook School - Brook Yearbook (Bloomfield Hills, MI)

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GEORGE GOUGH BOOTH If you .seek his monument, look about you

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RES L TIO N 1 THE DEATH OF GEORGE GOUGH BOOTH, CRANBROOK SCHOOL HAS LOST A TIME-MELLOWED AND FUTURE-ENVISIONED LEADER AND A GENEROUS AND WARM-HEARTED FATHER. EVEN AS THE GIRTH OF ITS TRUNK, THE BEAUTY OF ITS FOLIAGE OR THE PEACE FROM ITS SHADE CANNOT BE FORETOLD AT THE PLANTING OF A STRIPLING OAK, SO HIS AND ELLEN SCRIPPS BOOTH'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD AND TO THIS SMALL PART OF IT IN BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN, CAN NEVER BE EXACTLY MEASURED BY ANY SUCCEEDNG GENERATION BECAUSE WHAT THE DONORS EN- VISIONED AND CREATED HERE WILL GROW AND DEVELOP AS YEAR FOLLOWS YEAR. THE DONOR'S GENEROUS NATURE, EVER READY AND EAGER FOR SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO ENHANCE THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN AND MORAL INFLUENCE OF THE SCHOOLS, HAS MADE AT CRANBROOK A GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE KNOWN TO THE FARTHEST END OF THE EARTH, AND HIS SAGACIOUS AND FAR-EXTENDED HORIZON HAS GIVEN HIM THE VISION TO LAY A GROUNDWORK FOR WHAT THE PROCESSES OF TIME AND AN EVOLVING SOCIAL PATTERN MAY BRING TO THESE INSTI- TUTIONS. IN THE NEARLY TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF THE LIFE OF CRANBROOK THE DONOR'S UNASSUMING AND RICH SIMPLICITY HAVE MADE HIM ALWAYS A FRIEND RATHER THAN A STERN DICTATOR TO ALL THE SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS. IN TIMES OF STRESS AND 'INEED HIS STRENGTH AND COUNSEL WERE A BULWARK, IN QUESTIONS OF POLICY OR INTERNAL ORGANIZATION HE MODESTLY REFUSED TO DEPART FROM HIS FIRM CONVICTION THAT GROWTH AND EVOLU- TION WERE NATURAL EVIDENCES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE. MINDFUL OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN BEQUEATHED THEM AND SENSIBLE OF THE GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY FORWARD THE IDEALS OF THE DONOR, THE DIRECTORS, FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF CRANBROOK HEREWITH EXPRESS THEIR GENUINE SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY OF GEORGE G. BOOTH IN THEIR GREAT LOSS. IT IS THE SINCERE HOPE OF ALL THOSE PRIVILEGED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH CRANBROOK THAT THE INTEGRITY OF HIS PURPOSE, THE HUMANITY OF HIS IDEALS, AND. THE FORWARDNESS OF HIS VISION WILL EVER BE MANIFEST IN THE CONTINUING GROWTH OF CRANBROOK SCHOOL.

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FACULTY