Lake Forest Academy - Caxy Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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3 - I IN MEMCDRIAM Mrs. Sally Richards was a+ all limes pariicularly inieresied in The boys of ihe school. Prior 'ro her illness no boy could become ill upon Jrhe campus wi+hou+ enjoying her morherly inieresi and 'render personal care. During her years of aciiviiy she was 'rhe kindly counsellor of boys who, insfincfively recognizing her sound iudgmeni and fine qualiries of fairness. iusiice and honesiy, soughl' her our 'For advice upon queslions viral lo 'rheir happiness and success wifhin The school. Chocolafe parries. +hose happy afiernoon gaiherings of The boys and lhe faculiy in her apar+- meni +o enjoy +he warmih of her hospiialiiy and cheer, have become an insiiluiion here. These semi- monihly parfies, sraried by Mrs. Richards some seven years ago. were her very eliiecfive way of iniecling in+o ihe boys' lives a pleasani inierlude from 'rhe ineviiable monofony of school appoinimenfs. Mrs. Richards' keenly developed sense of beauiy manifesred ilself in her infense in'reres'r in an undersianding of rhe arls, in her love of flowers and landscape gardening, and in her impeccable good iasfe in inferior decoralion. Seldom has a school been so highly favored in 'rhis respeci. Largely 'rhrough her perseverance has LFA's curriculum been enriched by The addifion of courses in 'rhe fine and manual arls. These courses cons+i+u'ie 'rhe fulfillmeni of Mrs. Richards' long sianding vision 'io afford an oppor+uni+y for rhe boys of ihe school 'ro express 'rhemselves in lerms of beauiy. Possessing a keenly alerl' in+ellec+ and indomiiable courage and forliiude, she sirove ever in 'rhe ways of her loffy ideals +0 climb 'rhe sleep ladder 'rhal led foward perieclion in all her' underiakings. The expression, li can be done, in iis mosl' comprehensive applicaiion, besr summarizes Mrs. Richards' noble life. She has passed on leaving Lake Foresi Academy a be++er place in which +o live.