Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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MRS. FAITH K. HOOK AFTER eight years of experience in other New York systems where she had taught—and taught inspiringly—everything from first grade to Latin, German, physiology, and history, Mrs. Faith K. Hook came to Freeport High School. Here, for twenty-four years, she has lived and taught the traditions of American democracy. Especially dear to her has been the doctrine of freedom of speech, a principle so well expounded by her illustrious relative, Daniel Webster. Mrs. Hook started teaching history in the Junior High and then in 1931 moved to Senior High, where for the last seven years she has been chairman of the social studies department. Broad and deep knowledge gleaned from her studies at Western Kentucky Normal (Life Certificate), Syracuse University (B.S.), and New York University (M.A.), coupled with her ability to understand and handle well students and situations have made her one of Freeport's outstanding educators. Through the years many have been privileged to receive from Mrs. Hook their ideas and ideals of their precious American heritage. In her leisure moments, Mrs. Hook has perfected some other good old American customs: cooking delicious concoctions and hooking beautiful rugs. When she retires this June to her blue-spruced, five-acre domain in upstate New York, when as she says in her own inimitable way, takes to the open country to live a comfortable happy life unfettered by the restrictions of closely settled communities,” we all know that she will continue to live and diffuse the fundamental truths of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And so it is with a deep sense of gratitude and affection that the Voyageur, voicing the sentiments of all who have trod Freeport's halls, wishes Mrs. Hook in her years of retirement long life, peace, and an abiding happiness. 15

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