University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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FREDERICK CHARLES ELLERT IN DEDICATING the Index to Professor Frederick C. Ellert, the Class of 1946 honors one of the most respected and popular members of our faculty. It seems especially fitting that he should be honored at this time, for the current academic year marks his twentieth year of associ- ation with our College. In his undergraduate years, Fred Ellert distinguished himself as a student and athlete; as a member of the faculty he has been no less distinguished as a teacher and coach. In the classroom Professor Ellert manages to combine high seriousness of purpose with originality and liveliness of presentation. For it is one of his deepest convictions that education can be serious without being solemn — and many generations of State students will testify that the atmosphere in his classes is anything but solemn! He holds no less firmly to the view that language is a mere instrument, not an end in itself, and that the teacher of languages must at the earliest opportunity open his students to the literature, science, and philosophy which language records. Many students at State have come to regard his course in the German Classical period as one of the most valuable in their educational experience. German thought and feeling come alive in his lectures, and his penetrating and ironic comments on the irrationalities of romanticism have become campus classics. Students at Massachusetts State have expressed their admiration and affection for Professor Ellert in many ways through the years, and this dedication is but one further tribute to a kind and understanding and gifted teacher.

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