Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Gditorial Board

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Craining School -paculty

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H t ribute to T wo friends of the Craining School By prof. f). M. Burr I N Bnnyan ' s “Pilgrim’s IVogress, Christian and her family had but one Great-heart. We have had two, Jrlenry Lee and iNIrs. Woods. They have passed on before us, hut having ceased to be guiding hands, they have become guiding stars. They both gave liberally of their money, but they gave even more liberally of themselves, and their example constitutes an example that is priceless. Such lives permanently enrich an institution. They leave ideals, inspirations and traditions which are deathless. Every student who enters the school enters into the fellow- ship of these saints of God. The ideals for which they lived and strove are a sacred trust. Henry Lee was the very embodiment of the spirit (T friendship which is one of the fundamental qualifications for success in our work. Though an active man of business, he was never too busy to be the sympathetic and helpful friend of any man who needed what he could give. Class after class found a place in his big heart. Whenever he came to the school he brought a benediction with him. Many a man is doing splendid service for the Master because of Henry Lee’s helping hand. It was charac- teristic of the man that his last conscious thought was to help a young man who was struggling for an education. Mrs. Woods had the same genius for friendship, hut she looked at the school with a woman’s eyes. She saw that the Christian must always be the gentleman, and that gentlemanliness developed best in a home atmosphere, so she gave the school a building, which should have in it as many as possible of the refining infinences of the Christian home. The highest tribute which we can ])ay to her memory is to make Woods Hall what she dreamed that it might be — a center for the development of cul- ture, refinement, and Christian fellowship. Mrs. Woods’ motto for life might well have been that of a great English king, Icli dien, “I serve.” Her supreme passion was to be of use.