Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Latin would not be Latin without Miss Blodgett. Her teaching becomes an art as she makes each class as interesting as possible. No one can sit through one of her classes and be bored because for every line of translation she had at least three exciting stories and classical references. Miss Blodgett has a way of encouraging every one of us. She makes us feel like we are really improving. Now the tests this time were pretty good. You're holding your own. girls. She shares her past students' letters from the mysterious world of college as well as her magnificient slides of Greece and Italy with their blue, blue skies. Vivacity and enthusiasm are her trademarks. She has the respect and love of all her students. So with love, to you. Miss Blodgett, we say. Dux femina facti. IN GRATITUDE 6

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when you are silent, shining host by guest a snowingly enfolding glory is all angry common things to disappear causing through mystery miracle peace: or (if begin the colours of your voice) from some complete existence of to dream into complete some dream of to exist a stranger who is awakening am. Living no single thing dares partly seem one atomy at once, and every cannot stir imagining; while you are motionless- whose moving is more april than the year if all her most first little flowers rise out of tremendous darkness into air) e.e. cummings e.e. cummings must have had our 1969 dedication in mmd. his is an expression of the moods and purposes of a teacher whose classroom relationships transcend the classroom; whose moral advice and philosophic wanderings are unique to him; who finds a string around the neck a suitable place for a dictionary; a teacher who stresses self-motivation; a teacher who is a self-affirmed critic of all aspects of a Northrop girl's life; who furrows his brow in concern and says, don't fall off your lily-pads”: Northrop's first walking bibliography; a person of worldly knowledge who can say things like, did you ever hear the graduation speech by the Dean of Ohio University?”; a decision-maker whose spider-like hand scratches his head thoughtfully. and says, put it this way a man whose compassion and vast intellect create a truly unusual student-teacher relationship, we dedicate the 1969 TA-TLER to john a. sweetser. the third.

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There is no other way of saying it — Northrop simply could not function without Mrs. Tevlin. To help us find a thick old volume for a history report or the perfect book for a quiet afternoon, we need her. Mrs. Tevlin's duties are endless. There are books to check in and out. a crew of library helpers to train, and stacks to straighten. There is the nearly impossible task of trying to keep the library the quietest place to study in Northrop in spite of the natural female gift of speech. And surely it takes a person of limitless patience to collect overdue book fines at Northrop. Mrs. Tevlin has been, in addition to all these duties, a tireless reader of stories to the Lower Schoolers. Still. Mrs. Tevlin manages to be friendly to each of us individually. Her smiling face pops from behind a book shelf, as she helps us locate an unfamiliar subject in the Readers’ Guide. In gratitude for the countless services you have done for Northrop and its students in the past twenty-five years. Mrs. Glacia Tevlin. we. the entire student body, sincerely thank you.