Warren Easton High School - Eagle Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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.- . 0 X I 0 0 . DEDIC TIO l think all my readers will agree with me in the feeling that it is an extremely difficult task to write of the life-work of one who has been closely associated for many years with the narrator. What one sets down in cold type seems so inadequate as a picture of the man himself. And yet what one might say as the most sincere and truthfull sentiments of friendship is only too likely to sound like the fulsome flattery of the conventional biography. With the realization of this fact in mind, l can only wish that the subject of this sketch might have a Boswell with a cleverer pen than mine to indite this article. The l932 Eagle is dedicated to a former teacher in this school, Professor Charles A. Aitkens, one of the most popular instructors Warren Easton ever had. At the time of his retirement in june, l93l, Mr. Aitkens had devoted forty years to teaching in this city. During those years thousands of pupils sat before him to receive instruction. But he was more than their teacher, he was their friend. I have known lVlr. Aitkens for over twenty-five years, from the time when I entered high school as a pupil through the years when l was his co-worker on the faculty. ln all that time l have never heard a pupil utter anything but friendly praise for him. Never a complaint or an unkind word. For all his pupils knew that, even though they might fail, lVlr. Aitkens was their friend, that his sincerest desire was only to help them. One of the outstanding characteristics of Mr. Aitkens is his modesty. When asked for some facts about his life he displayed his customary reticence. The following, however, were elicited from him and from other sources: Charles A. Aitkens was born August 26, I860 in New Orleans. He received his early education in private schools. After leaving the Jesuits' High School, he entered Spring l-lill College, from which he graduated in I877. For the next two years he taught at Spring Hill, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in l879. f- ttx 1 C. . ,-1 'v.. -uv'

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