Walton High School - Periwinkle Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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ln MemoPiom To us vvho knevv the daily inspiration of serving under Miss Conlon's stimu- lating supervision, the memory of our relationships vvith her vvill always be both a blessing and a challenge to realize our best selves as teachers and as pupilsf Miss Conlon's professional progress bespoke the brilliance of her gifted mind and her constant devotion to duty as dictated by a vvarm andi sympathetic heart. ln her eight years as a classroom teacher, our principal generously expended the same energy and enthusiasm that contributed toward her increasing success as an edu- cator. Each lesson in nature study or the history of our land elicited from her that keen response and insight that vve recall so vividly and cherish as a standard for our ovvn vvork. These gifts rightfully found vvider fields of expression in Miss Conlon's work of organizing. When she found that children had to miss school to care for baby brothers and sisters vvhile their mothers vvorked, she organized the Abbey Day Nursery, where children of pre-school age are still cared for all day. Children of school age vvhose mothers have to vvork are also made vvelcome, to play in the yard? -or in the neat, attractive rooms that have been provided through Miss Conlon's continued interest and efficient help. Desiring to share her love of the beautiful in a vvay that vvould, give pleasure and vvorthy leisure activity to boys and girls, Miss 'Conlon established the vvork of school gardens in the Bronx. During the World War, the founder of our school vvas an indefatigable vvorker in the task of registration. As a pioneer in junior-senior high school administration, Miss Conlon, because of her genius for organization and her progressive outlook, met each nevv problem triumphantly, Walton l-ligh School, to which she gave unstintingly of her strength and her love, vvill alvvays be a memorial to her courage, enduring faith, and con- stancy of purpose. Miss Conlon envisioned Walton in the terms of the needs of each girl, a large number of vvhom she knevv personally. No pupil vvho served on the Board of Cov- ernors can ever be grateful enough for the privilege of contact with her principal's scintillating mind and friendly spirit, Miss Conlonis ideal of Walton scholarship in- cluded not only pride in the girls vvho vvon places on the l-lonor Roll, 'but in each member of the Blue Banner League vvho had striven sincerely for self-improvement. Miss Conlo-n embodied and inspired the highest professional ideals-an ethical code that gave and expected the best. When any project was undertaken, our prin- cipal vvas the one vvho gave it impetus and dynamic significance. ln her vvas in- corporated the truth that the greatest leadership connotes not only ther greatest effi- ciency, but also the willingness to do the hardest vvork and bear the heaviest responsibility. Our greatest tribute vvill be found in our gratitude for the rich spiritual heri- tage vvith which the founder of Walton has endovved it and in keeping alive the tra- ditions' of unselfish service, thorough scholarship, and nobility of character which her life and vvork so beautifully expressed. . EMll.Y HANSON OBEAR

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I am noi a Teacher: only a fellow-Traw eler of whom you asked The way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as of you. Shaw