Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Ox ox ox Ox Ot Ot or ot ot ox ox Ox ox Dr. David Allan Robertson E came to us as there sometimes comes a quiet whisper of hope in the darkness of the night, as a feeling of confidence in something pure and great which is to come to pass. With the advent of this coming, our dreams of the future Goucher seemed less remote, and, with the brief passage of time since the inauguration of Dr. David A. Robertson, we have become even more confident of the ultimate success of whatever our new president may plan for Goucher College. Not only do we feel that Dr. Robertson will lead the way even to higher scho- lastic achievements, but that he will also accomplish much toward the bringing about of that delicate balance of culture and learning which is essentially a part of true educa- tion. With a stimulating interest in those aspects of intellectual improvement which are housed neither in textbooks nor in laboratories, Dr. Robertson has done much in the way of stirring in the minds of the students a thirst for those forms of beauty which may be distilled only in the heart. He has attempted to instill in us the value of surrounding ourselves with those things which we may regard with continued affec' tion, even in the years when the extravagances of these college days may be only amusing memories. Constantly Dr. Robertson is urging mental advancemennyassociation with worthy books and pictures, attendance at concerts and recitals, visits to the Museum of Art, contact with all the cultural advantages. which Baltimore affords. It is in the Wednesday chapel periods that Dr. Robertson especially exhibits that sympathy for the undergraduate, that eagerness to awaken ambition which has so com- pletely won the respect and affection of the student-body. With his pleasant, thoughtful, talks, Dr. Robertson is influencing our scale of values, both personal and social. Lacking a dehnite head, Goucher had forsome time been drifting, as it were, until Dr. Robertson accepted the presidency of this institution. But it is with admiration that we have witnessed the way in which our president has identified himself so thor- oughly in the short space of time that he has been with us, with Goucher, its aims and its ideals, until it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to remember that time when Dr. Robertson was not our leader. We feel that it will be to Dr. Robertson that we will owe our gratitude for the eventual attainment of that Greater Goucher, with our new buildings standing quietly among the green hills and glowing against the clear expanse of sky above the Towson Campus. It is Dr. Robertson whom we will remember for that strength which will have guided us to greater accomplishments. ' We feel that the administration of our new leader is already marking a brilliant chapter in the history of our college, and that in the minds of those who will know the Goucher of the future, the name of Dr. David A. Robertson and that of Goucher College will be as indissolubly linked as they are already in the hearts of the students. N in eteen

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got o o o o ot ot ok o' o ot ok xy Dean Stimson HE Dean who delivers amusing but thought-provoking talks in chapel, the Dean who reads us quiet poetry of a Monday evening, the Dean who is so ready to console any unfortunate occupants of the Mourners' Bench when Warnings are in season-all these unite to form in Dr. Stimson the stimulating and dynamic personality which is so indispensible to Goucher College. Dr. Stimson tells us of the London bell ringers, and the towers of England become dear to us. She reads us selections from Marcus Aurelius, and we are impressed with the philosophy of the old emperor. She smilingly names the three most important bones of the body as the wish bone, the funny bone and the back bone, we laugh, but take new strength from her words. For it is these three bones of the humorous definition which she is constantly aiding. When we are weary with the routine, she speaks to us of the future. When we have somehow lost the capacity for ready. laugh- ter, with a few witty words, she helps us to regain it. When we are rushed with innumerable duties, she gives us courage to perform them by quoting Wordsworth's lines about God putting forth a cool hand and asking Why so hot, little man ? , or she assures us that leisure is a state of mind, rather than a concrete possession. It is these little actions of our Dean which we have learned to value so highly. For in some peculiar manner she is able to transmit to us something of thatenthuspiasm which is so characteristic of her personality. In her hands the most ordinary thing becomes an object of interest, the most usual of occurrences gains importance. In an attempt to stimulate our own flagging interests in life, she tells us of someone who fairly leaps from bed each morning in an eagerness for those adventures which the day may bring forth. lt is with this joy in living, combined with an unusual amount of practical sense, that Dr. Stimson is succeeding in contributing a stability to the rush of a college education. On one occasion she remarked that an education was the means toward a greater enjoyment of everything in life, that knowledge opened new angles of approach to what might formerly have seemed commonplace. With her absence last year there was a great void. We are now doubly appreciative of her renewed presence in the office of the Dean, and on the campus. For, curled up on the floor, eyes shut and bodies relaxed while the sensitive voice reads on, there comes to us a quiet and rest which is somehow different from anything else in college lifeg and the lively words in chapel are those which lend a meaning to a day spent in study. We have come to depend upon that vitality and understanding which Dr. Stimson embodies, and although she is well known outside of the college circle, it is always as our particular Dean and friend that we think of her. Twenly-one