Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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Jo you, Miss Lyon, we dedicate the 1954 NARVA. It is our way of expressing our sincere appreciation for your almost two score years of outstanding service to Park College. Both as Professor of English and as Chairman of the Division of Humanities, you have unfalteringly maintained high standards, your rich background and perceptive understanding of language and literature, your genuine enthusiasm for your work and for your students, your keen alertness to life as a whole, have been a source of constant inspiration to those who have studied and worked with you. Miss Lyon came to Park College as Instructor in English in 1915, after receiving her degree of Bachelor of Arts from Ripon College in 1912. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1921. She spent one year (1922-1923) as Professor of English at Whittier College in California. In 1927 she received the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University and has also done graduate work at the University of California, the University of Chicago, and at Cambridge Uni¬ versity, England. In addition to studying, she has served on the summer school staffs of several state colleges; she has conducted research on the Tudor Dictionary with the English departmental group at the University of Michigan; and she has contributed a number of important articles to national journals. Miss Lyon has also been consistently active in the general program of the college. She has served on many committees, including the Curriculum Committee, the Academic Council, the Administrative Council, the Publications Committee, and the Committee on Honors Work — a field which she was instrumental in establishing. Her wide range of extra-curricular talents and activi¬ ties — from the culinary to the artistic — is familiar to all who know her. —4—

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FREDERICK’ W. HAWLEY To you, President Hawley, we give our thanks. Not because you were a great church worker, nor because you received many honorary degrees; not because you were president of another college or an influential figure in the Middle West. No, Dr. Haw¬ ley, we pay you this tribute, humble as it may be, because of what you did for us and thousands of others before us as President of Park College. We complain and fret and argue, but please be¬ lieve us when we say that Park is a great place to take the step over the threshold to maturity; and you helped make it that way. Most of us never knew you personally, hut we have all heard of your vital per¬ sonality and administrative achievements within the college. We want this book to be a fitting memorial to such a man as you, and hope you will find it so. Again, our heartfelt thanks. BLANCHE NOBLE GRIFFITH Mrs. Griffith, for eighteen years you were Assist¬ ant Professor of Voice here at Park. Those of us who knew you well will remember you not only for your fine professional standards, but also for your con¬ stant endeavor to learn and teach the process of living in its purest and noblest aspects. To your understanding and sympathetic nature, students brought their sorrows and anxieties, and with your unselfish spirit they shared even their most secret joys and successes. You always seemed to live as one who viewed this life as part of eternity. It is neither imagination nor sentimentality to say that your goal for each day, no matter how menial the task of the moment, was to glorify God to the fullest extent of the ability He had given you. You did not teach voice: you taught students. You taught them to sing — to sing and to live in praise of their Creator. The greatest tribute we could possibly pay you would be to develop the same often-tried, yet unfailing spirit that was yours — the type of spirit that lives above and beyond death. — 5 —