Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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