East Stroudsburg University - Stroud Yearbook (East Stroudsburg, PA)

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18 i We, the editors and the staff of the 1985 Stroud, wish to dedicate this yearbook to a very special man who is leaving ESU this year. Norman Gelber, an English pro- fessor, is retiring after twenty-four years of love for and devotion to the students here at East Stroudsburg University. Dr. Gelber is a true hero in our eyes, and we shall all miss him dearly. So, here's to you, Dr. Gelber: Sir, we salute you! For you and me, this is our valedictory year as we say farewell to East Stroudsburg University and look ahead. We share a rite of passage: you from an undergraduate to a graduate status, and I from 'S the teaching profession to retirement. We wave goodbye to the academic world with bitter-sweet memories. We feel sad because we leave the campus where we have increased our knowledge and skills, enriched our lives with cultural activities, and enjoyed the social exchange with students and faculty. Yet we treasure the years we have devoted to the joint adventure of learning, which gives us the deep satisfaction of personal growth. Though we head in different directions on our compass, we share the excitement and the challenge of moving into a new phase of our lives because it is like ventur- ing into new territory without a detailed roadmap. So I wish all of you success and self-fulfillment - whether or not it is tax-deductible. Norman Gelber Associate Professor of English

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Reflection on Retiring On this, my valedictory year of waging war on ignorance a quarter-of-a-century's hoard of academic souvenirs adorns my shelf of memory. Had I remained a business man, steeped in profit and loss, I might have reaped a rich portfolio and sported round the Riviera - or skidded toward a coronary. Instead I chose the teacher's role, content to gain a bookish wealth and thrive upon the give-and-take with colleagues and the cavalcade of students stumbling toward the light - Norman Gelber