South Park High School - Dial Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Dr. Robert T. Bapst: A Tribute What skill can paint the portrait ol this man, Or tell the story so that all may read The history that long ago began His greatness, wrought in word cmd deed? The outward form and noble brow may yield To artrst s palette or the wrrter s scroll But how rnscrrbe upon a scholar s shreld The subtle chemrstry of mrnd and soul? The understanding heart to heart must speak In wordless admrratron No song ol prarse Will do and those who honor hrm wrll seek To teach the kindly precept ol hrs ways Then hft the cup' Good wrshes echo loud For him whose lrrendshrp makes men humbly proud' loseph Manch lo those who belreye hfe has been chanffed not taleen an rx We at South Parle feel sure that the lrfe of the Rey erend Dr Robert 'I Bapst has rndeecl only been changed, not taleen away for he was a man rx ho belrey ed wrth a farth that would do am mortal man honor Aeboye and beyond hrs achrexements as an educator and aclmrnrstrator hrs most shlnrnff charaeterrstrc was hrs farth rn hrs fel low men as the burlders of a better world Dr Bapst was born rn Buffalo rn 1880 and attended Canrsrus Hrgh School and Canrsrus College, where he graduated at the head of hrs class at the ave of nrneteen The followrng year he was awarded hrs Master of Arts deffree In 1908 he began the admrnrstratrxe portron of hrs career by bernv appornted prrncrpal of School Number 33 In that year he also obtarned hrs Doctor of Phrlosophy deoree from St Lours Unryersrty In 191-1 Youth Parle H1 h Qchools constructron was carefully bemg gurcled by the hand of Dr Bapst who had been appornted the Frrst prrrrcrpal of the school It rs drHicult to measure the growth of South Parle durrnv the ervhteen years that he serxed here because we must consrder not only numcrreal Growth but the dcyclopment of school sprrrt tradrtron, and prestree Lrleewrse rt rs drllieult to measure the Growth of the leffend burlt around the man for to do thrs we must con srder the many customs and tradrtrons rntroduced by Dr Bapst amonv them the Chrrstmas Pageant and our Alma Mater , whrch he composed lVe would also hare to eonsrder hrs exuberant drrye and determrnatron rn ey erythrnfr he undertoole Dr Bapst eo ordrnated the crty s secondary schools rnto a unrted and standarclried dryrsron of the school department In addrtron to these aetrxrtres he yxasa member of the Board of Drrectors of the Buffalo Pubhc Lrbrary the Board of Manavers of the Buffalo Socrety of Natural gcrences and the Board of Mrnagers of the Arnerrcan Assocratron ol School Admrnrstrators In 1937 Nraefara Unrxersrty eonfe rred an honorary deefrec of Doctor of I ans on Dr Bapst and rn 1946 he was presented ruth an honorary deffree of Doctor of Humane I ette rs by Canrsrus College Three months after hrs resrvnatron as supcrrnterrclent of schools rn October, 1949 Dr Bapst once agarn went on 1 quest for a new horrfon By specral drspensatron from hrs Holrness Pope Prus XII hc yeas permrttcd to pursue an rccelcrrted course to prepare for the prresthood He was or darned December 8 1971 And so exen untrl hrs dc rth on October 19 1919 The Rexerend Dr Robert 'I Bapst seryed as an rnsprratron to the people about hrm And rec who feel hrs loss so deeply srncerely echo the fine trrbutc uhrch Dr Blanch has Uracrously pcrmrtteel us to rrse Parole Sandmv 4 , .hr 1 'A . v I x 3 1 f y -1 - ll ' 1 ' ' N i I , , G , . . J r ' 1 s I-1 r - ' ' s e - ee 1 - x s n n. a . O , Q l l ' . J D ' 1 e 1 - ' - ' v' , 1 v 5 I D . - . - 1 Q I - I V Q I D ' ' G p . . I 1 yi , I V .y D D ,1 1 ' 1 D . 1 u , g . . . D ' D , ' ' . . . , ' r - . I x . . ' Q y r I i 1 . I . . , g 1 1 . ' 54 x ,, V l X V 'l , 1 l i ' . Y xi Q v , v D .x u' n 4 Under hrs appornted posts of assocrate superrntendcnt and, later, supc-rrntendent of schools, I A Q Q I I Q v- Q x V, x xl n . A ' 1 I ' . K .1 N 9 , . o D- ' x u Q . s yx 1 A K v 1.1, . v '- x h X A 5 V A A q x v V if . x 'H x Z ' 'i x 2 'b 1 sh hx I 7 A - l' h I 1 L . . A vx. - ll b L. 7. V x . T v I - 6 L- U ' . lv xl ' - .

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