Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Dedl ll- A T r i b u t e MR. SCHACHT AS AN EDUCATOR As a friend and associate for 34' years in the Chicago Schools, I feel honored by the request to offer a brief appraisal of the qualities which seem to me to have fitted Mr. Schacht for his honored career as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal. It is not by chance that Mr. Schachtis life shows a sustained progress. His foundation of scholarship in Science and linguistics was broad and deep. During many years under the burden of teaching and of assisting in the administration of a high school, Mr. Schacht kept up graduate work at the University of Chicago-not the mere 27 majors required for a Ph.D., but 40 majors. The strain of stubbornness from his German ancestry and a laudable ambi- tion to go as far as deserved promotion would allow, brought him to the princi- palship of Fenger High School. Tireless industry, a good intellectual equipment, and proved fitness for the position were his aids. Having become principal, other qualifications for success as head of a great city school were demanded, and the record of Mr. Schacht's years at Fenger are evidence that he possessed them. Among these qualifications were the ability to make friends in his community and to keep them. Mr. Schacht was gifted with a friendly nature, good humor and tolerance controlled by steady principle and a determination to rule justly and with consideration. Many a student at a hard point in life has found in him the human tenderness and help which cleared a dangerous interval for them. Mr. Schacht was accessible to his students, to his teachers, and to the parents of his community. The administration of a great school is burdensome indeed, but he thought it his duty to hear all who appealed to him, and somehow he found time to listen and to advise or decide. The love of young people and unfailing interest in their development is the acid test of the teacher and the principal, and on this test Mr. Schacht never failed. He has told me that when he was principal at Brenan he found himself spending much time in the Kindergarten, where the charm of childhood is unspoiled and artless, and the early unfolding of the mind is often startling and beautiful. No less interesting to him probably was his high school experience. There is unfailing delight to the teacher in the contact with adolescents who are beginning to develop those powers which in maturity make civilization and culture, citizenship and community life, overbalance the destroying factors and keep the nation moving ahead. The principal of a great city high school neces- sarily encounters much that is alarming and discouraging among the thousands who come and go in the school, but he encounters also more that is comfort- ing and encouraging, and so long as that ratio is maintained and, by his teaching, example and leadership, is improved, he is really doing his job well. Mr. Schacht is sincere and sympathetic. He has the good cheer of an opti- mistic philosophy. He leaves his task at Fenger with respect and love of the students and the faculty. I know they unite in wishing for him the contentment that comes from a course well run, from a life well lived, and a character well framed of honor and justice, of duty and kindness. Hail and farewell. May the years touch you lightly, our friend! , W. T. MCCOY.

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