Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Q L' 51915 FE' l.f 1,5-.. But Take an Old Kentucky Thoroughbred and- R. TERRILL fills quite a niche in the educational Hall of Fame. He is the boy-handler extraordinary and plenty- potentialf' too. Moreover, he is the headmaster of the finest prep school organization in the Southwest. The thing that has made his school stand out is that he has based the whole system on the idea that boys are sent to him, first, to work, and secondly, to work some more. Among other things, Mr. Terrill has the knack of getting under a boy's skin and staying there. Thirty years of teaching and association with boys has made him familiar with every form and facet of school boy character. He is a school teacher of the old school who keeps green in these decadent days the memory of the birch and palm and no one can deny that he has been a worthy exponent of the good old way of raising a boy. That he gets his results by it cannot be denied. But unfortunately to many of us, the real man behind is an un- known quantity, a powerful, but not always intelligible force-just so much retribution in its most immediate form. Later in life, like some Athenian meeting a tragic actor face to face on the street without the awfulness of his mask, we shall realize the genuine worth, the noble purpose behind Mr. Terrill's clisciplinarian's mask -and then we shall love and revere him as a man. During the ten years of his connection with the school, Mr. Terrill has made it famous for its high standard of scholarship and discipline, and in turn the school has put Dallas on the edu- cational map. ln the present, the name, Terrill is a name with which to reckon, in the future it will be a name with which to conjure. I2 O QE, 15115 QE .EQ EQ

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QE Eswis - E'-DU I , 1 Let's Hear You Talk. CC HE. greatest thing that ever happened to me, Mr. Terrill was once heard to say, was the coming of a good woman into my life. We can't enlarge upon that, but we can say that one of the greatest influences that has come into many a house boy's life has been Mrs. Terrill. For the greater part of the year, she is a mother to some seventy boys, and she comes just as close to filling that difficult position as is humanly possible. Mrs. Terrill is ever ready to help a boy, to counsel him, and to put in a good word for him. Besides being a mother of seventy, Mrs. Terrill is a teacher of teachers. Although not actively teaching this year as much as in former years, she has made herself felt in whatever work she has put her hand to. l-ler classes have only themselves to blame if they do not learn anything under such a teacher. To hear Mrs. Terrill instructing the house boys in the books of the Bible is in itself a revelation. There has been no little said about the part Mrs. Terrill has played in the management of the school. It is generally thought that whereas Mr. Terrill is the guiding hand of the school, Mrs. Terrill is the guiding spirit. It is certainly true that this school owes much of its success to her. With Mrs. Terrill's departure from it, there will go one of the most cultured, refined and lovable characters in the educational world. We will-always have a warm spot in our hearts for Mrs. Terrill. 13 E .Q1a15Q, .EQ