OurTeachers
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Our Teachers
Here is a photo album of our teachers who are not featured in the table below.
| Mr. Stubbs, our Faculty Advisor Page 9, The 1955 Lamp | |
| Mr. Haughton, Upper School Principal Page 10, The 1955 Lamp | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt, Headmaster Page 12, The 1955 Lamp | |
 | Seated: Maryhelen Hintz (English), Mr. Stubbs, Jean Stubbs (English, Music) Standing: Marian Haughton, Victor Haughton, Jr. (Principal, French), Doris Thomas (Dean of Girls, History), Richard Springsteed (Art, Mechanical Drawing), Blanche Keefe (Mathematics) Page 15, The 1955 Lamp | |
| Seated: Amy Andre (Dramatics and Oral Expression), Marion Andre (History), Miriam Taylor (English, Bible) Standing: George Hutt (Biology, Chemistry), Henry Greene (Latin, Spanish, Physics), Erving Mix (Latin), Carlos Van Den Broeck (French) Page 16, The 1955 Lamp | |
| Seated: Charlotte Maher (Girls’ Physical Ed.), Enn Tatar (Mathematics), Hildegard Dietz (Librarian) Standing: David Hotaling (English), Byron Forbush (History), Edward Payne (General Science), Edward Hoffman (Boys Physical Ed.) Page 17, The 1955 Lamp | |
| Seated: Mrs. Haughton, Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Haughton, Elizabeth Gordon Standing: Byron Forbush (?), Blanch Keefe, Mr. Payne | |
| Mr. Haughton | |
| Mr. Hiatt | |
| Mr. Stubbs |
Strictly Personal (p. 19, The 1955 Lamp) lo-fi image hi-fi (346 KB)
REMEMBERING MIRIAM TAYLOR SAJKOVIC By Paula Cronbach '56, now known as Maria Espinosa I think of her standing in front of a blackboard. She is wearing a navy suit, slender, pale, with wisps of hair curled around her face. Her eyes would flash when she spoke of Kafka or of Dostoievsky, one of her favorite writers. How carefully she read and commented on our papers. She wrote in a slender, forward-slanted script. There would be impassioned diagonal notes in the margins of our papers and more notes chalked on the blackboard, arrows pointing to more and more connections and ideas underlying one another. She had a respect, a passion for ideas, for the written word, for poetry. And she was an idealist. How we articulated thoughts, what we contemplated, and the ideals by which we lived were vitally important. I had the sense that what I wrote mattered in some way beyond what I could understand. She told of overhearing a conversation between two men on the Long Island Railroad. “How boring their talk was. They talked about money. Only money. Grunting, half-literate, banal talk,” she said. How materialistic, how greedy they sounded. How inverted their values were. One day in the Friends’ Meeting House, I looked over at where she was sitting. Her face quivered slightly. There was sadness, pain in her expression. I’d heard stories: a Russian lover with an incurably insane wife whom he could not divorce. Shades of Jane Eyre. She was Miriam Taylor then, and I wondered what would happen to her. The prospect of living indefinitely at our school in a dormitory seemed grim. Many years later, through Margaret Foster who has done so much to connect people, I obtained her address. She had married the Russian scholar! She was teaching at Mount Holyoke, and she was happy, expansively happy. She wrote to me about her son “a newborn soul,” Alyosha was his name. I sent her my novel, LONGING, which in its first edition had a lurid orange and black cover. I don’t think she liked the book. It didn’t matter really. I had written a story that for me rang totally true. For better or worse, she had nurtured my sense of artistic honesty. We corresponded sporadically through the years. She was writing a book of essays on religious thinkers. I heard more news of her through Margaret, learned of the death of her husband, of Margaret’s speaking with Alyosha, who is known as Alex, and then, sadly, of Miriam Sajkovic’s death. Her spirit lives on. For each of us she has had a different kind of impact. Her passionate concern with ideas was an expression of love. |
| Do you have any pictures, recollections, or words of appreciation for some of your teachers? If so, please send them to Art at ageoffri@anderson.ucla.edu . He will put them online for others to enjoy, and will print and mail them to surviving teachers after reunion. Also, can you identify any of the unidentified people in any of these pictures? |
guest said, 01/31/2008:
Yes, that is Byron Forbush in the group photo.
Marty Livingston McDermott? "59.
Thanks for this website.