Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Cedarhurst, NY)

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MISS DORIS K. BENSON IN her thirty-two years of service to Lawrence High School, Miss Doris Benson has earned a reputation for thoroughness and exceptional teaching ability. Hundreds of Lawrcncians owe their solid grounding in the French language to her patience and her interest in their progress. Miss Benson came to the old Lawrence High School on Central Avenue after obtaining her B.A. from Elmira College and her M.A. from Middlebury College. She studied for awhile in France and has subsequently returned there and visited other parts of Europe. Miss Benson, who often (to her students’ great pleasure) turned her French class into a fascinating magic carpet ride to exciting, distant places, will return to Europe after her retirement. We are all thankful to Miss Benson for helping to maintain the high academic standard of which our school is so proud. Lawrence will not seem quite the same without Miss Benson, a woman well-known and respected for having the best interests of the school and “ses amis” at heart. For this, the 1960 Lawrencian is dedicated to her. 7 his Book To— MRS. MURIEL T. BARBER MRS. Muriel T. Barber is retiring after thirty-nine years at Lawrence. She has helped generations of girls obtain a more healthful, enjoyable life as head physical education instructor. With sympathy, humor, and gentle but firm discipline she has opened to her students new vistas in athletics and has proven that sports offer wonderful opportunities for getting to know people at their best. Mrs. Barber certainly has taken advantage of this opportunity, for she has made countless friends in her years at Lawrence. As a gym teacher, she had the chance to come in contact with every girl in the school and so is perhaps the person most qualified to pass judgment on the student body. Happily, Mrs. Barber says that she has most emphatically loved her years here. In her years of retirement in Rhode Island, we hope it will bring Mrs. Barber pleasure to know that her students cared for her enough to dedicate this I960 Lawrencian to her. 7