Westtown High School - Amicus Yearbook (Westtown, PA)

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Marian Masters Spicer, 1884-1921 MARIAN MASTERS SPICER represented the best Westtown tradition, embodying in her quiet person our Quaker ideal of gentleness, sim- plicity, and dignity. Her unobtrusive service was often unknown by those to whom it was rendered, and its worth was too intangible to estimate, but the atmosphere about her was unmistakable, and the loud voice and rough word were stilled in her presence. She graduated from Westtown in 1903. After teaching in two of the Yearly Meeting’s primary schools, she returned in 1911 to teach at West- town. The reading classes, the social activities of the girls, and the training for our various forms of public speaking, were her chief care for the greater part of the next decade, except for two years in the middle of this time, which she spent at Columbia University. After her marriage in 1919 she continued unofficially her work in social ways as well as in coa hing for public speaking. These and many small individual services performed with quiet dignity helped to produce the at- mosphere of friendliness which all who love Westtown wish us to have per- meate our institutional life. With a sure sense of social fitness she initiated enterprises which repeat- edly drew us together in family co-operation. And it is as an integral pait of our big family that we miss her from among us. Page 10

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1bonorar HUember E. GRANT SPICER Pate 12 “IHis life was gentle, ano tbe elements So miieb in him that mature might stant» up Hub say to all tbe worlt»: ‘XTbis was a man.’ ”