Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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whe TOWEI AN APPRECIATION Mr. Colbert has the distinction of having had close connection with this school since its founding in nineteen hundred five. Nee The place of honor which he has achieved is not a mere trick of caprice. It is by the painstaking fulfillment of his daily tasks as dean and teacher for eighteen years in this institution that he now holds the distinction of being more | universally loved than any instructor who has ever been identified with it. Few men have had a more strenuous period of service. The early days of his activity embraced important and critical events. How well he acted his part, contending always for the highest welfare of the institution, is known‘only by the student body of those days, and those who were then in close touch with prevailing conditions. As dean, it has been his part to guard and protect the high standard of the school. The performance of his duties in this capacity has at all times evoked the warmest commendation, and the justice and fairness of his decisions have been most apparent and outstanding. At no time has he allowed either friendship or prejudice to warp his judgment or bias his decisions. All this he means to the student body. How much more he means to the pupil in the class room! How vitally has he touched the lives of those with whom he has been associated, day after day! Mr. Colbert is a born teacher. His students have gone to larger schools to learn that only a few of the best teachers measure up to his high standard. Those who know him best love him most and the impression he has made and is making on the community and the school is one that exalts faith in genuine manhood. As a sympathetic counsellor, a faithful friend, an efficient teacher, he has few rivals. No worry is too ordinary to be of some concern to him; no event which touches his friend is too trivial to demand -his best effort; no mental tangle is too insignificant to elicit his keenest interest. Few men have rendered more extensive and helpful returns to those who came seeking intellectual guidance. Mr. Colbert is living not only in the hearts of those who have made up the student body for eighteen years, he is a living factor in the homes of men and women who were boys and girls in his class. His gospel of neatness, accuracy and dependability is being lived in homes into which he has never entered. He is affecting for good, the lives of many he has never seen. We have overlooked the best of his life if we fail to mention his splendid optimism. He dispels gloom, he radiates good will; unhappiness cannot exist in close proximity to him. He is a veritable tower of happiness: “Standing four- square to all the winds that blow!” —Atma Horcuxiss Watkins, 708. Five —— FT] 1923 — — —— =

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Dhe OWE DEAN GEORGE H. COLBERT

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