St Timothys School - Steward Yearbook (Stevenson, MD)

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TH E STE XVA R D i ...W , ,. i STEXVARD BOARD Left to right, front row: Patsy Blake, Ann Hill, Mary Buford Bocock, lXli1ni Ryerson, Lucilc Davis. Mary Dickcrnian, Pcppi Benson, Priscilla XVOrk. Second row: Francie Iackson, Lihbie Gerry, Flossic Bryan, Isobel Brawlcy, Debby Pease, Amanda Srhittcr, Cynthia Bctncr, Mary Bonsal. Standing, back row: Vcc Valentine, Betsy YVatts, Nathalie llnbbard, Cynthia Iolinson, Cynthia Sclnnidt. Thirty-four

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THE STEVVARD EDITORIAL HEN VVE reach the ripe old age of eighteen or twenty-two or whenever we choose to leave off being taught and start learning, it is natural to think back over the teachers we have had at school or college. Henry Adams once said, A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops. Grateful students as they graduate often say, He taught me all I know, or, perhaps, VVhat I didn't know. Through the influence of one memorable person has evolved a life-long way of thinking or an open-minded approach to new opportunities. At our first solo step on our lives' stairs, we pause before college, realizing with a sudden, frightening ma- turity that what we do from now on depends on us. After years of reluctantly submitting to the advice of adults, we find ourselves making a decision which ultimately concerns us alone, we can no longer consider the responsibility to be theirs. Facing this task with new-found powers, we search for the college which best fits our own needs. We surprise ourselves as we maturely weigh every aspect-their faculty, the students, but, above all, the attitude they Will illstill in LIS t0WH1'd the work we pursue afterwards and the lives we lead. Soon we sadly admit that many of the Standards we set cannot be met-college is too big in many cases. We have come full circle, our parents, who were deeply concerned in us personally, could not give us all the opportunities they wished us to have. College can give us just what wc choose to gain from it, but we will be considered just one of a group. As we despair of ever fully finding what We Seek, we suddenly begin to appreciate that what we seek, we, in reality, have already. Perhaps the reason we know so well what we are looking for is that this attitude toward life on which we place such value has been so well impressed upon us that we are not conscious of learning it but just Of knowing. In the years to come we will pick up a newspaper to note with interest an article on Antarctica. Why, I remember Mr. Bianchi, he spoke to us at our Seminar-of course . . . we have a Seminar and I was as close to him as . . we will say to our amazed listeners. Nowhere are we going to find a school which maintains one of the highest scholastic standings and at the same time wants to pack us ofi to Gigi because it will be good for us. Nowhere will we find a faculty who will be as eager that their classrooms extend beyond the schoolhouse-to The Baltimore Art Museum, the Vanguard Center in Wash- ington. Very few other schoolmates will tell their grandchildren they went to the Inaugural pa- rade, a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most, very few can be proud that their school considers an education does include such things. A school, too, can effect eternity like the teachers it may be privileged to have, its value is not confined within its walls. The best of every experience is not in living through it but in taking from it something to guide future experience. We know how valuable it is to be introduced to many things, to give everything a chance, to test our interests. St. Timothyls has given us a criterion of what those interests can and should be. To put large thoughts into small words . . . we have been taught to learn. N .H. Thirty-five