Horace Mann School - Horace Mannikin Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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A6 i0l'g HE size is no indicaTion oT The imporTance oT The HisTory DeparTmenT. AlThough There is no permanenT head oT This group, Mr. Charles D. Gerow acTs in ThaT capaciTy. Ever since I9l4, he has been a popular Teacher oT EirsT and Second Eormers. An ardenT Republican and a rabid World Series Tan, he keeps his classes busy wriTing l.iTe on a Medieval Barony and varied reporTs on Renaissance painTers. A sTricT disciplinarian, he always manages To make The punishmenT TiT The crime. ln Tormer days he ran Camp Moosilauke and Took an acTive inTeresT across The Tield. Yale's giTT To Horace Mann came in The Torm oT a remarkable Track sTar, Mr. AlberT M. Briggs. An experT in AncienT and Modern European HisTory, he devoTes much Time To poliTics and currenT evenTs. Besides advising The Speakers' Club Tor The pasT Tew years, he has been insTrumenTal in The Tlourishing oT all exTra-curricular acTiviTies aT Horace Mann. ATTer acTing as direcTor oT Camp Moosilauke Tor many seasons, he became direcTor oT his own camp, Camp WrighT. The newesT addiTion To The HisTory DeparTmenT is Mr, Philip LewerTh. A Track sTar and capTain oT The Lions' baseball Team, he came To The hill Tor his TirsT Teaching iob. Mr. LewerTh expounds The Theories OT American HisTory To The Seniors and somehow manages To concocT gruesome ouTlines. He helps wiTh baseball and J.V. TooTball. Besides These varied iruTeresTs across The Tield, he has Taken acTive inTeresT in exTra-curricular acTiviTies, advising The DebaTing SocieTy and The SporTs Club. He has done remarkably well in Tilling Mr. lVlarTin's shoes. I 5

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Gfadaicaf language LTHOUGH The Classical Language DeparTmenT is made up oT only Three persons, iT cerTainly is one oT The besT aT Horace Mann. The head and senior member oT This group, Mr. William J. Nagle, TirsT puT in his appearance in I9I I, aTTer Teach- ing in Brooklyn and aT Hackley and being HeadmasTer oT The Newman School, This Harvard man Teaches LaTin and Greek equally well, buT his greaTesT pride is The IO3 NeediesT Cases Drive, which he has engineered Tor 20 years. For many years Horace Mann's head linesrnan, Mr. Nagle Takes an acTive parT in aThleTics and serves also as chairman oT The TaculTy Club CommiTTee. The only woman insTrucTor aT Horace Mann is Miss A. Berdina MclnTosh. She primes The FirsT Formers in genTlemanliness, prepares Them Tor a sTudy oT Toreign languages, and acTs as Their class adviser, Une oT her greaTesT inTeresTs lies in The social Tield, where she capably conducTs all TuncTions on The hill. She mainTains corre- spondence wiTh The Horace Mann alumni and Takes an acTive parT in The P.T.fN. For The pasT 23 years, Mr. WalTer l. MeTcalT has made his presence TelT in school. As l.aTin insTrucTor, he keeps his classes in order wiTh The merciless aim oT his chalk and keeps Them in humor wiTh his puns. For many years he has coached J.V. base- ball and TooTball, Turning ouT some amazingly good Teams. He assisTed Mr. BaruTh in running Camp MacArThur during The pasT summer and has recenTly decided To Tound a camp oT his own. I 4

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km My QMM' f Wnafkemaficd ATHEMATICS aT Horace Mann is under The skillTul TuTelage OT Tive men. Head oT This deparTmenT is Mr. Dean Moore, who has been propounding The mysTeries oT solid geom- eTry To baTTlecl seniors since l9l9. He keeps well nourished by eaTing many boxes oT candy won Trom his 'ldumbbellsf' An experT aT chess, he also Takes greaT pleasure in Tishing on The ST. Law- rence and umping baseball games. An arch GianT Tan, Mr. Thomas J. Kalligan TirsT came To Horace Mann in T920 and ever since has been Teaching The workings oT The slide rule To budding maThemaTicians. A maTch box collecTor, he keeps his classes mysTiTied boTh by his philosophy and his weird marking sysTem. AlThough Mr. John T. Gilmour sTudied To be a civil engineer, he ended up Teaching Horace lvlanners The ways and means OT geomeTry and algebra. During The TirsT World War he served in The Army as a capTain, and he used his experi- ence To Train HillToppers in miliTary drill. Every morning he drives in Trom his Tarm wirh eggs Tor members oT The TaculTy. Mr. Carl H. Crandall, a younger member oT The TaculTy, proved hirnselT invaluable To H.lVl. by coaching Tennis and oTTen Turning ouT unde- TeaTed Teams. He leads The ouTdoor group on vigorous hikes Through The neighborhood, capably runs The booksTore, and This year served as ad- viser To The l:ourTh Form. During Mr. LiTTle'5 absence, he did a whale oT a iob wiTh The sTage crew. He Teaches maTh in spare momenTs. Mr. Gordon Miller, Though he lecTures l:irsT Formers on The beginnings oT algebra, does mosT oT his work across The Tield, where he coaglqeg varsiTy baseball and baskeTball and acTs as assis- TanT coach during The TooTball season.