Eastern High School - Echo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THE EASTERN ECHO Mr. William R. Flowers Probably the reason that we hear so many adverse criticisms of ourselves, is that the kindly thoughts are hard to express. We have them, but some of us feel that to put them into words is a waste of time, and some of us are too selfish to say to others the kind things which encourage and which are so much needed in the everyday working-world. With the departure of Mr. Flowers from this school, it is our desire to say some of the things which we have been feeling during the period of his princi- palship. We feel that his executive ability has been displayed consistently in ways which are both helpful and time-saving. It must mean a great deal, for instance, for a new teacher to be met at the office door on her first day in the school, and to have handed to her her schedule card and all material necessary for the routine work of starting a new school year in a very large school. Be- cause of this efficient handling of class schedules, our school has started in to work on the first day at nine o'clock, and there has been no confusion. Of course, this presupposes a great amount of work done ahead of time by Mr. Flowers and Miss Carpenter,-work which the general public, who have not been behind the scenes, could not possibly comprehend. This lack of confusion, brought about by efficient handling of routine work, has been furthered a great deal by Mr. Flowers' spirit of co-operation. There is not any question which has, within our knowledge, been discussed with Mr. Flowers, which he has not sincerely, conscientiously, and impartially tried to decide according to his ideas of what is just, and of what would make for the best good of the school. But the thing which amounts to the most, after all, is that Mr. Flowers has always been kind and considerate. It makes such a difference in the morale of the teaching force if our desires are granted begrudgingly or if we are made to feel that what we want to do is the right thing to be done. We have been allowed all the freedom that is possible fconsidering that we are merely small spokes in a large wheell, and it has made routine work much more pleasant than if we were continually feeling an authoritative pressure. We bid goodbye to Mr. Flowers, and hope that he will continue to ad- vance in his work and, above all, that he will always be happy. Edith Joesting. QW , 5' How many times you have written, or at least seen, in classbooks this verse: To know, To love, And then to part, ls the sad, sad fate Of a schoolgirl's heart! Doesn't that just fit our case? After we had met him, it did not take us long to know him, almost simultaneously we loved him, and then the cruel fates, in the form of the School Board, took him away. Some outsider asks, Who is HE? Oh, ye of little intuition! He is Mr. William R. Flowers, who is-no, no-who was our principal.