Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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A A CLASS OF nil I iii:iimati: THIS HOOK TO GLADYS BALCH HASTINGS Faculty and pupils of the Somerville High School will long remember Glodys Bolch Hastings, School Librarian from 1926 until her death, Februory 1, 1941. A graduote of the Somerville High School and of Wellesley College, with ten years' experience os Chil- dren's Librarian at the Somerville Public Library, she entered upon her duties at the High School well equipped for the work. She was not only a librarian, but a feocher os well; for it wos port of her work to train pupils, individually and in groups, to use the library — to know what books were there and how to find the in- formation they contained. This group teaching in the course of the year brought her into contact with every pupil in the school. She was clear and definite in her teaching, and held pupils — whether in teaching groups or during library periods — in easy control. She wos scrupulously neat and orderly about the librory equipment, prompt, efficient, and genial in her service to pupils and teach- ers; and loyal to the best interests of the school. Miss Hostings had many friends, on the faculty, omong pupils, outside of school. With her friends ond in her home she was vivacious ond full of good spirits, quick to laugh, and os ready with generous sympathy. Throughout her illness she was courageous and more thon usually persistent in keeping on with her work, for she wos at her desk up to the Christmas vacotion. Miss Hastings leaves her father and mother and a host of friends, who mourn her possing, while they remember with gladness her sunny presence and her merry laugh, and rejoice that her short life wos full of worth-while service ond genuinely hoppy living.