Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ELIZABETH C. BRYAN JANET M. GRAY, LOIS NOTTBOHM, SYMBOLS OF OUR TOTLSOME YEARS When we were in Lower School, we saw our teachers as omnipotent rulers of our days. In Junior High they were The Enemy, then for awhile mere fixtures, and finally we came to know them as women of endless patience and un- common humanity. Seniors become tearfully sentimental, and in certain activities. such as faculty-student activities, cap and gown fittings, and yes. writing the Taller their condition frequently becomes grave. But in making these sketches of our teachers, we have tried to avoid the tendency to maudlin sentiment, and attempted to draw them as we have known them, five days of the week, thirty-six weeks of the year. Teachers are to be found in as many varieties as are students. They are tall or tiny, plump or slender, gentle and soft-spoken or cynical and quippy. The range of their interests is wide enough to include the world. They read Camus or Byron, admire Bryan or Bernoulli, advocate the welfare state, Existentialism or Moral Rearmament. Some have families, some have pets, some crusade, some write books, some travel, and all get degrees. Our faculty agrees that we need and deserve to be educated, and unswervingly serve that task. Only such would reread Antigone for the eleventh time because one of us was- writing a term paper on it, stay up all night to chaperone the League Dance, or fill out endless college recommendations for us and get stuck supplying the stamps besides. Only they would expend energy and time explaining something just as carefully the seventieth time as the first, with no thanks but the slow spread of knowledge in a stubbornly mistaken mind. These women offer us knowledge in their class- rooms, tea and cookies in their homes. We envision them chatting charmingly with us in the years to come, quieting our little girls with chocolate creams. Our teachers are not just the symbols of our toilsome years, they are our valued and delightful friends. Our sketches of them are an integral part of the canvas of our year, our sketches of them are like famous paintings to which oneis thoughts return again and again in the quiet hours of life. AB., A.M. Attentive to the least detail af- fecting Lower School girls, Mrs. Bryan retains an interest in us and knowledge of our ways even unto the very end. Educated in Minnesota with both degrees and doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, Mrs. Bryan has seen great growth at Northrop in her decade here, first, as a read- ing specialist and now as head of Lower School. We like visiting her office on the days her dog, called an ambulatory dust-mop by one wordy senior, becomes a Northrop girl. A.B., A.M. Our headmistress is a person to be proud of, to love and respect. If you are at the riddle-rnaking stage, you might try to trap an unknowing someone with the ques- tion, 'cWho is great, and small, and gray all over?'7 The answer would be Miss Janet Gray, of course. She is the most important person at Northrop and is known, nationally, in private school cir- cles, she is short enough to enable some tall Eights to look over her. fWarning: never try to. overlook herj Born and educated in Michi- gan, she is now studying for the Ph.D. degree at University of Min- nesota, commuting to colleges ev- erywhere in our behalf, yet never losing her guiding touch here. B.S., M.A. We remember Miss Nottbohm in class, in chapel, in council, but most often in giving us exact an- swers to puzzling questions. Never excited, always attentive, Miss Nottbohm, whose interest in math and guidance has led her to test- ing as a large portion of her pro- fessional career, came to Univer- sity of Minnesota for an M.A. de- gree after graduation from Uni- versity of Wisconsin and attend- ance at St. Olaf College, and still later, special work at Carleton.