Fosdick Masten Park High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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The CHRONICLE qualities of my father's life. Around these two foci has been drawn the ellipse of his character. Many elements within that circumference which we have intimately enjoyed in the home I may not speak of. hereg his saving sense of humor, his infinite respect for the sacredness of other people's personalities, and, most notably in his training of his children, his ingenuity in doing us good without our knowing it. When, for example, growing unwary and unwise, I needed parental counsel, as every youth sometimes needs it, he did not bring me up on the carpet and read me a lecture. He took me fishing with him down the Niagara River, and what he had on his mind naturally percolated into mine in the course of the day. Painless dentistry is clumsy compared with his painless impartation of sound advice. I am writing this in Jerusalem, and it would not be fair to the facts if I did not add that the One who long ago lived and taught here in the Holy Land has had a masterful share in making possible the kind of home in which we were brought up. The religion to which we were accus- tomed from our youth was centered in the practical application of the Christian spirit to daily life. If, as he lays down his active professional Work, my father finds many rising up to call him blessed, there is nothing accidental about so desirable a reward for fifty years of teaching. He has taken very much in earnest a description of religion written long ago, What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with Thy God. Harry Emerson Fosdick. 6

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The CHRONICLE An Appreciation of Dr. Fosdick O the teachers of Masten Park High School, Dr. Fosdick has filled for these many years a place far more exalted than that of oflicial head of the school. It is true that as an Si' administrator and leader in education he has made a record equalled by few men of his generation, but in addition to this success in the technique of the school executive he has been in a larger way a father and friend to every teacher who has been privileged to work in Masten Park. Endowed by nature with a personality overflowing with good will for his fellows, a genial faculty for making friends, and imbued with the ideal of unselfish service to teachers, pupils and community, he has devoted his life to the best interests of those with whom he has come in contact. If he had chosen to be a physician or a minister instead of a teacher, his scholarly attainrnents, his broad knowledge of human nature, his keen penetration and ready sympathy would have placed him in the front rank of either of those professions, and these same qualities have so endeared him to his teachers that every one has looked to Dr. Fosdick for counsel, advice and sympathy in all of the joys and sorrows of life. To us all he has been guide, philosopher and friendg' Now that he is giving up the busy routine of a lifetime and is retir- ing full of years and honors we bid him Godspeed. Our love and devotion go with him. May he live long and prosper. In the name of the Faculty, C. Brooks Hersey. 8