Nichols School - Verdian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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HEADMASTER Each September we have the very interesting experience of watching the new senior class take shape. As the new sixth formers return to school in the fall they are still fifth formers in mental attitude and posture. In the fall of their final year the step of taking the initiative, of moving into leadership is a difficult one. They wait for a nudge: they look for someone else to do the starting. Wears ago as a brand new Headmaster I remember suffering from the same ailmentg in the very small school I ran, I learned that every activity, every innovation started from the Headmaster's desk.J Gradually the activities gain momentum and it is not long before the seniors acquire the same outlook and sense of responsibility as their predecessors. It is then that those in the most responsible posts begin to appreciate new values in their lives and in the lives of their classmates. Friends of long standing take on a different complexion when they fa.il to complete an assignment needed badly on a fixed date. Responsibility falls back on the head man who forsakes all GISBAIGGD, study or recreation-to complete the job on which his friend failed. Then there is the new appreciation of TIME. All those golden moments which had been gloriously wasted in hacking around in the past- how wonderful to have only a few of them. Now is the time our responsible senior learns to squeeze the hours and squeeze the minutes so that he produces ever so much more than he had before. Now a minute is sixty seconds worth of distance run . Now our boy has become a man. Philip M. B. Boocock PHILIP M. B. BOOCOCK B.A., Litt.D., Rutgers 59 20