Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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I)r. Juliet Bell Miss Kuth E. Cameron Mr. Gilbert T. Vickers Mr. Frank A. Warren They spent many hours in their classrooms, hut a teacher's work is more than merely lecturing. These men spent countless hours preparing their lessons. correcting their papers, and helping their students, for they had found that purpose in life which they had sought to help us find and they were true men of... 27

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A nd from their simple gestures, came to know in those four years that they w ere right. The debt we owe these men is not repayable. They taught us that life is a void if it has no direction. Yes, these men fdled their classes with more than textbooks and lectures and tests... They tried to make us realize that we must stand for something if we are to stand at ail... 26 Dr. John Brainerd Miss Grace Brown Mr. Errol I.. Bilker Mr. Leon Doleva Dr. Clifford E. Keeney Dr. Waller G. Stewart

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. . . DEDICATION One of these men. remember very clearly. 1 can recall Dr. Brooks’ classes so vividly. I re- member one incident which, to me, evidenced his true ability as a professor. It was a bright spring day when he stood before the class in room 101. He looked about the room at the chipped plaster walls, at the pipes laced overhead, at the window propped open by a board, and confessed that this was not a room in which to be teaching Cyrano de Bergerac, but then he told us this was unimportant, for true education is a meeting of minds. He smiled know- ingly at our cynical smirks, and proceeded to speak to us of Rostand's play. I still am uncertain as to precisely when or how it happened, but when next glanced about the room minutes later, I saw that all were as enthralled as I was by his words — Displuming lus sense of humor. Dr. Brooks smiled as he remembered an entertaining speeeh given in Fnglish 18. Dr. Brooks revealed to us the play as he saw it: when he spoke of the characters, they became real and alive: when he described the setting, it became a vivid picture; when he explained the poignancy and depth of the theme, it became a part of us. Dr. Brooks stopped for an “after class lecture—perhaps on Annabel Lee.