Potsdam State Teachers College - Pioneer Yearbook (Potsdam, NY)

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In Memoriam. . . iiAt a distance we take death as easily as we accept Nebraska rain. But when that vague reality has a face we know and a familiar voice that now sounds loudest in its sudden silence, it is as if we have never heard the word before? Roger Dunn left many things behind, still alive in those who loved him. To each person who remembers part of Roger Dunn alive he is immortal. To each person Roger Dunn left per- haps a different legacy and on each person a separate impression. ttA teacher? Then he has left an inheritance of what he was in so many for so many years that no one remembers what is truly their own thought and what is part of him adopted in some forgotten class. Only those who teach can die and leave behind so many offspring, so many fragments of himself? itRoger Dunn was a gentleman, a scholar, and a friend. He was a scholar because his tastes and inclinations were like that; he was a gentleman because he couldnit help being one; and he was a friend of every student, and was gratified when they considered him a friend. All three attainments rest on the same talents: sound judgment, yet willingness to suffer fools while there is hope of amending their folly; tolerance, but not without indignation at the shoddy or inane or wicked; moderation which makes keener the enjoyment of what is tirst rate? A close friend summed up the living remnant of death when he said: ciWe all bear Rogeris mark? Quoted from Rev. Max Cootes and Dr. W. L. Wakefield

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ttWe are the dreamers of dreams? We are the leaders and we are the followers; We are the learners we are the doers; And we share in common the bittersweet days of our college life as we develop , an exciting, frightening individualism.