Miller Great Neck North High School - Arista Yearbook (Great Neck, NY)

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I l l DlElDllCZ-WllON The stuclent must examine those about him tor the tiew men who have an inclepenclent spirit ancl the permanence ol' strong principles. These leaclers in school lite are the moclels for later life. This year we honor Crosby Reclman as such a man. The son ot' a country cloctor, he grew up in a small Maine town, then went to Brunswick for his college eclucation, After he gratluatetl from Bowcloin, he taught in New Mexico, Seattle, XX!ashington, Massachusetts, ancl then at the Havertiorcl School in Pennsylvania for twelve years. ln 19118 he came to Great Neck, where this wide teaching experience clualilietl him for the position of heatl ot the English Department. In the past ten years he has been instrumental in provicling the wicle variety of courses which we take for grantecl toclay. liehincl this is a wealth of hours spent in arranging the curriculum, interviewing applicants, coorclinating teachers: scheclules, ancl in attencling to other manitolcl problems. For your beliet' in the importance of teaching ancl the constant newness of learning we cleclicate the 1958 flI'f'fcl to you.

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In these stars there is the wonder: Are they ruled by law themselves? The stars are measures of our knowledge of the people. The members of this high school-students, teach- ers, all who walk through its halls-comprise our situation. We students have come here and left, in transition. The teachers and administrators, older and more ordered, have tried to order us. But this was the hollow form called discipline and school bells always rang to close the day and let us leave the confines of the building. The deeper influence of knowledge was the substance infused in us through these years. The teacher who could train the mind to understand, who could interest the student enough to make him want to learn, who trained, not the memory, but the mind was justified in all his work and assignments of work. For, although the human fault is always there, the result of one man's influence tends to be one shade, among the other shades of influence. Those teachers who responded to the human need for law and order and gave their guidance to evoke its structure in our lives, were our true educators. They taught that they might mold our intentions, and those of us who had no true intentions were thereby not truly taught. Arbitrary codes of conduct could have made our teachers into mere instructors, marks into mere empty signs-but all this is the form sprung from students who have no desire nor intention. For those who felt the need to learn, the years in school are just. These we commend, as we commend their teachers and ad- ministrators, and all who have helped in education.

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lN lVlllElVllORllAMl Mr, Clifford Tupper was born in Princeton, Maine, a small town near the Canadian border. After he graduated from Bowdoin College he taught in Baltimore and then in Cranford, New jersey. In 1927 he came to Great Neck with his wife Marian. The head of the Latin Department, he taught here for 31 years. An avid reader, he knew the classics and several languages as well. This background enabled him to influence his students deeply, to in- terest tltem in what interested him. He always stimulated thought, yet chose to veil this learning with his dry sense of humor that made him so popular a teacher. In 1940 the Arista was dedicated to him for his service to the school and his understanding nature. He was a man well acquainted with the students' families, as well as their problems and abilities. Students and fellow teachers alike admired him for his friendly character. Following a prolonged illness, he passed away on Sunday morning, April 13, at the Nassau Hospital. His death was a deep blow to the relatives and friends who were close to him. To this beloved teacher we say, for them, farewell.