Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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DR DAV ID GI BBS 6 Superintendent of Sclz ools

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gTHEAN15EAL192St Faculty E realize that a school cannot run without a Faculty and that its main object is to teach the pupils. To us, however, the Faculty is not merely a staff of instructors. As a result of our four years of struggle through text books and recitations, we have begun to realize that the Faculty is the school. All that Meriden High has come to mean to us--all the joy we feel in walking her halls, all the pride we hold in her achieve- ments, everything which, leaving gives us a tinge of regret--we owe to the Faculty. This grand school of ours can be made a prison by an unmindful and indifferent group of teachers. lts very halls can stand as buffets to our yearnings for fellowship and co-opera- tion. What a contrast! If only the underclass- men could make this discovery before it is too late-before they leave those friends behind, if only they could appreciate the Faculty as we do, how much pleasanter would be their school life!

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nn f 46 1- . -M 9 058 u205.f-1' K mae auunat. teas DR. DAVID GIBBS V5 gg OCTOR DAVID GIBBS was born at Kingswood, New Jersey, and it was there that he secured ZWAE his early education. In 1894 he graduated from the New Jersey Normal School. The following five years of his life were spent in scientific and post- graduate work at I-Iarvard. Clarke University conferred upon him in 1906 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Before coming here, Doctor Gibbs had had a wealth of experience in school work. After his education al Harvard, he was head of district as well as grammar schools. He superintended schools at both New York and Massachusetts and was district superintendent in the Philippines as well as head of the New York State Normal School. It was from his leadership at Oswego. New York, that Dr. Gibbs came to us. 7