St Stephens Episcopal School - Scroll Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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COLONEL THOMAS B. GALE 6

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DEDICA TIUN To teach others is to do more than one can ever do with his own hands, for it is to multiply and make grow in pupils the mental riches gained at the expense of the teacher's own life. The fruits of such teaching, however, are the added components of spiritual immortality, as we can affect it. Often thankless, often even resisted, the task of letting light into maturing minds must be its own reward-reward enough, nevertheless, for one as wise as he to whom this book is dedicated. To be at the same time kind and witty, wise and practical, understanding and inspiring, idealistic but possessed with mathe- matical precision, is to have a personality tinged with the paradox that characterizes a good life, the life, for instance, of a good teacher. Of the many good teachers here at St. Stephen's there is one person in particular who does excellently the finest, perhaps, of human work-training and shaping the growing minds of stu- dents. This person is our mathematical mentor, a man, however, who is more than a mere pedagogue-who is at once friend, wise counselor, and constructive critic, who indeed manifests that paradox which characterizes a good life. Thus it is with deep affection that this book is dedicated to our unforgettable man of the year, Colonel Thomas B. Gale. 7