Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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MOTHER GRACE C. DAMMANN 1872-1945 The door to Mother Dammann’s office is always open now, but no one waits in the front hall to see her “by appointment”. For in February Manhattanville lost her guidance, her understanding, her love. Yet in a larger sense that guidance, that understanding, and that love are with us still and will be always. “Do the Truth in charity”; that was what she taught; that was her life. And many people have heard and will remember. For them she cannot die. Her strength lives on in her beliefs. That she was a profound influence for good, we of Manhattan¬ ville, past and present, know. Her grasp of Truth, her ability to distill Truth from reality were among her gifts to us. She held a place that is vacant now, that will perhaps never be filled. But hers was a life lived for God and others. We knew that; and so our sorrow is tempered with a joy. Knowing her has been our privilege. We have loved her for what she has given the world, for what she has given us; we have loved her for what she herself was. She wanted for us only that we live the Manhattanville ideal. For her the highest tribute can be simply that we keep that ideal as she has left it. 8