Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

never official perfuncory always constantly
manifet pleased panied according the report
good bad When told that pupil making unusual
progress developing along and lines into promising
manhood his pleasure was sincere and genuine and usually
found later that he had taken the time and trouble to seek
out that pupil and speak word of commentator and encourage
He was not fautfnder His criticisms were just always
along conservative lines and aimed at the berment of cond
TONS AS intimately knew him. in his Office the street in
his home in e boys and girls, heard him an
He felt fahery interest in the welfare and happiness of
those who each live the teachers of
boys and girls He thought that them much more
than the salaries they 1t CHARACTERISTIC Of him. will
that he proposed to when the living
teachers consideration between offering of
house h" then had available teachers home 1t not
for me to that there was no question Of rent in his mind
but the idea given mpraccabe that time His last
official duty sign the December salary checks of the teach
in long time shall not how pupils of this school
he helped to better opportunity life by providing for their
tuition of his These things known only to
him to me- his way speak of them AS he
did not do So shall not do now He the most liberal man
On the other hand he extremely grateful for little aen
tons shown him. About year there appeared in the school
full the school, 1t crudey done that its only
merit the idea attempted to day later he
the article between u.s. but he casped my longer
and rmer than usual while his heart spoke to mine those things
his lips did not articulate
accident which brought grief
member of this school, the girls of the domestic science class
this little thing that knew it to him big thing The last
time him. shortly after the Christmas holidays he told me
him. and told of his appreciation of that loving thought with tears
in his eyes,
You may ask dear boys and girls why these exercises here
today? Certainly nothing that said will
to the glorious record the life he lived among That
not its purpose It rather that should pledge ourselves that
such life shall not have been lived in vain Let its example
speak eloquent language and let dedicate ourselves with
all energy of hearts and minds to the task that the ideals
for which he lived and worked shall not perish from this
munity.
There is fruitful of study than the lives of
really great They not good great because of chance
accident but because the element of the Divine that all
has been cultivated and nurured that rules and directs
that life in accord with the highest standards of right living In
all the elements that to make greatness Doc Leak
good and great think the finest and yet the simplest line Ten
wrote this II part of all that have met There
world of philosophy compressed into it. With full under
standing of the meaning of the poet what blessing doc Leak
has been to those who fortunate touch his life He
set the Standard for clear thinking right feeling and broad
liberal living and the standard high The world better for
known him. 1t keep his service
before in color that will fade We commanded
the Great Book of books in this wise:
Whatsoever things are true,
Whatsoever things are honest
Whatsoever things just
Whatsoever things pure
Whatsoever things lovely,
Whatsoever things are of good report,
If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise
Think on these things.
Our friend loved who loved us beyond all meas
ure but let the of his virtues remain fresh in
lives, calling constantly to better and higher things
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