San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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across the hall, is coming home from work. ,Ioe stops at Old Pang's door, fixes something, then moves down the hall to his room. Joe is a Christiang he is not afraid, and he doesn't believe about Old Pang's return tonight. I hear Joe fit his key into his key hole and the clicking sounds of the unsnappinglock accompanied by the turning of a door knob. ,Ioe? I ask, as I pull the covers down to my chin. Yeah, what is it? comes the voice through my transom. Oh, nothing. I look at my alarm clock which says nine-fifty. I was wondering if you have the correct time. Yeah, it's .... five minutes to ten. Thanks, Joe, did I hear you stop by Old Pang's door? Yeah, his wreath fell to the floor, so I picked it up and pinned it back on again. Thanks, Good-night. I hear Joe say Good-night, and his door close. I pull the covers over my head again for another ten minutes and the rest of the night. I am leaving my light on until tomorrow morning. ' -James Lee. 'I , Q25 il- HE CLQIIVXS Hts xsoumiv sito muussil wyarri 29 'l ...J

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? RIENDLY MAN To those who barely know him, Dr. Hugh C. Baker is the man who makes faces and looks like a pussycat, the slight man with the bouncy, energetic walk, the man who puts shy people at ease. Officially, he is Assistant Professor of English and Language Arts, and Advisor to Over- seas Students. He has taught at State since 1936. To those who know him better, he is the friendly man who is inter- ested in everybody and everything and lives in a state of sustained agitation. He grew up in Middletown, Lake County, California. His father was a Protestant minister whose flock often visited the friendly Baker house- hold. lt was natural that young Hugh should like people and want to spend his life helping them. While he was a boy, his ambition -was to be a doctor in China. He wanted to travel. Later, in a freshman botany class at Stanford, he changed his mind. He discovered that he liked to collect plants and study them, but he could not bear to cut them up and look at them under the microscope. As his dislike for botany grew, so did his fascination with English literature, and he soon changed his major. Three summers ago his office happened to be next door to the di- rector of summer sessions at State. Two students from Iraq arrived to enroll at the college. They had so much difficulty in making themselves understood that Dr. Baker was called in to assist. He put them in his evening class in Fnglish. i 31