Hawken School - Onyx / Red and Gray Yearbook (Gates Mills, OH)

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Lee Henry, the Head of the French Department, was graduated from Amherst in 1935 and received his M.A. from Middlebury in 1948. Besides teaching French, Mr. Henry is the faculty advisor for the fresh- men and one of Hawken ' s most vifidely traveled faculty members. In addition to having traveled throughout Europe and the United States, Mr. Henry has studied overseas at the University of Dijon and the University of Montpellier. He also had a wide range of teaching experience in the U.S. before join- ing the Hawken faculty in 1956. Recently his col- leagues honored him when they chose him Hawken ' s Jennings Scholar for 1964-65. Mr. Ismail, Hawken ' s import from Istanbul, Turkey, teaches 9th and 12th grade French. Good-natured, tolerant, and sympathetic to the senior work-load, he rarely gives an unreasonable assignment. His ironic amusement at wiseguys and big chizzes and his animated characterizations in illustrating philoso- phic arguments lend a whimsical atmosphere to his classes. He has assigned such memorable nicknames as Bzzzt and Nick the Greek to his more illustrious senior students. He likes sports, Proust, 17th Cenmry French philosophers, and his students. He is not so fond of La Chanson de Roland and Bull GDnnor. Mr. Ismail received his M.A. in French at W.R.U. He taught at John Carroll and night school at Qeve- land College before coming to Hawken in 1963. 27

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Mrs. Dunlop, the head librarian of the Upper School, was among the first of the faculty who came to the unfinished Hawken campus in 1959. Like many of the other facilities, the library was tempor- arily set up in two small rooms in the White House. In four years, however, she has developed a fully equipped and efficient library which is now the first place Mr. Relic shows to school visitors. A moderate disciplinarian, she maintains a quiet library, and stu- dents find it the only satisfactory place in the school to study. Her willingness to help, whether it means giving her annual orientations on the use of the library, helping a student on a research paper on Byzantine Art, or attempting to keep track of the one starter which is needed to light all the fluore- scent bulbs in the carrells, has certainly made her an invaluable asset to the school. Rumor has it that bachelorhood has proved to be an effective decay preventative when used in a relaxing program of classroom instruction and reg- ular regressional care. Back at Short Hills Mr. James Farwell wasn ' t much of an athlete, but he had 43% fewer dropouts with Kiisl. Now safely installed in our French Department, Mr. FarweU, a graduate of Yale in 1950, spends most of his waking hours relaxing in one of his classes, usually giving a test. Interested in metaphysics and the basic problems of existence, Fars often leaves the realm of the French language and converses in Latin. Once the academic require- ments of the class have been fulfilled, the relaxed, efficient teacher image gives way to the devil-may- care Big Brother image, and a French short story releases all of the answers to all of the profound questions that have long plagued mankind. 26

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With his cocked gold-rimmed glasses and that powerful Morris Minor ( Four on the floor and bucket seats! What more could you want? an en- gine? ), Sam Jackson grows more distraught with each added year of advising our yearbook. An English teacher, graduate of Yale and Cambridge Univer- sities, a few years back he unsuccessfully attempted to vary the Hawken teacher ' s image with an Abe Lincoln beard. He greatly enjoys sports and is known for his basketball antics, his unusual sportswriting for the Geauga Times Leader, and his gridiron suc- cess both as a victorious frosh coach and an evasive pass catcher in the faculty-smdent touch football games. Often the wielder of a biting wit, he some- times is speechless, such as when he got his teacher ' s retirement form notifying him that he could look forward to doing so in 2001 A.D. Right: Miss Christine Kast wearing a sweater by Villager. Miss Kast was graduated from Manhattan- ville College in 1964 with a B.A. in English Liter- ature. She came to Hawken in January of 1965 as an apprentice teacher and taught Mr. Thomson ' s jun- ior and senior English classes. It is rumored that her lectures on the Romantic Period instilled new vigor into the old juniors. It is also rumored that former Trustees ' President, Mr. R. L. Ireland, was concerned by the Upper School ' s failure to take full advantage of Miss Kast ' s presence. In the fumre Miss Kast plans to travel abroad and to study for an ' M.A. in English Literature. 28