Harvard School - Sentinel Yearbook (North Hollywood, CA)

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.Ml , . i,, I K 1 1 . i S .9 HEADMASTER To the Members ofthe Class of 1969 I think of you personally and I think of you as a class. I have been thinking of you this way for some years. I expect l will keep on thinking of you, even though now you scatter and our daily opportunities to see each other come to an end. Since it is true, I will also say I pray for you, though not as well asl should. And all this is and has been and will be ajoy to me. l hope our relationship has meant something to you, but in any case my sincere gratitude for your friendship. You are a rather grand group of fellows. There is no need for me to list your accomplishments but as your headmaster I rejoice to state you have led thc school well and strongly, giving your loyal support to a remarkably able and devoted group of Prefects. What I do want to dwell on here and now are your struggles and trials as you strove to be objective, sweetly rea- sonable tas we sayj and trusting with those who differ from you or are of a so-called other generation. You have on occasion won through to a fine evaluation of that wisdom and perspective which only age seems to provide. You have struggled to curb your im- patience with the seemingly dulling patience of your elders. I fervently hope you have found this worth doing and will continue it. Let us live by the classic and truly tested truth that a fellowship of learning and living, not a fractured, separated, con- torted chaos of impatient individuals, ennobles life. My generation needs forgiveness for its failures. you do too. What a wonderfully uniting and creative thing is forgivenessg what a strong patience and brotherly love it calls for. And you can practice it now. You don't have to wait for a response, for the right time. In the word of the moment. the forgiving spirit is a thing of beauty. Very often you will find rather strange and lovely things turning up where you least expect them. Back in 1952 a science- fiction author named Anthony Boucher penned a tale called The Star Dummy in FANTASTIC Magazine. The plot concerns two grotcsqucly unhuman but pleasant and likeable little alien monsters. a young man and a young woman . who are from a distant galaxy inconceivably removed from ours in time and space. Acci- dcntally stranded on earth. they are befriended and helped to retum home by an earthman and his wife. .lust at the moment of farewell. Tarvish fthe young man l says God Bless You , and this surprises the earth couple. . . Oh yes, many on our earth believe, said Tarvish. Not all. but many. Them was once a Man. He was more than a man. Ilis name was Hrazg I am not quite a follower of llraz and yet l pray as I did, Paul, shortly before you found me it is in the words that Hraz taught us. Wc'll say them together. said Vishta fthe little girl monsterl. It makes a nice good-bye. And the lovers recited: Lifegiver over us. there is blessing in the word that means You. We pray that in time we will live here under Your rule as others now live with You there: but in thc meantime feed our bodies. for we need that here and now. We are in debt to You for everything. but Your love will not hold us account- able for this debt: and so we too should deal with others. holding no man to strict balances of account. Do not let us meet temptations stronger than we can bear. but let us prevail and be free of evil. . Good-bye for now, and God bless you. William S. Chalmers

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A GRAND MAN

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BISHUP BLOY 4 H NR. Born in England in 1904, the Right Reverend Francis Eric Bloy, D.D., studied at the University of Missouri and Arizona after he came to this country. He served as Rector of Episcopal Churches in Maryland and La Jolla before becoming the third ii 's-.A -.. Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles in 1948. Since that time he has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Harvard School, and it was he who, in 1949, was responsible for bringing Father Chalmers to the school.