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Finvola Drury
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Finvola Margaret
Drury
2015
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Andy Kohen

Georgie (forgive the informality but I did know you when.......) & Kathy, I am pretty sure that I shared with your Dad and he with your Mom, my profound gratitude for his guidance and caring, both during my years at Monteith and later when I hit a wall during my graduate education. Indeed, they collaborated on a letter to me to buoy up my spirits and share their own experience with your father's academic bump in the road. But, I don't know that you ever heard it. While your parents' influences on who I became were subtle and probably not visible to most people that know me and knew them, please understand that they were profound indeed. Their legacy at Monteith will never be lost or forgotten because there are so many of us that learned from them. I had the honor of being selected as the outstanding teacher at my institution many years ago and I chose to share with my colleagues and others assembled at the ceremony a part of the address that your father suggested that I use when I had the honor of addressing the first Monteith graduating class in our own commencement exercise in 1963. It is a quotation from Erasmus of Rotterdam which goes as follows: "Let it be your first Care to chuse you a Master who is a Man of Learning; for it cannot be, that one that is unlearned himself can render another learned. As soon as you have gotten such an one, endeavor all you can to engage him to treat you with the Affection of a Father, and yourself to act towards him with the Affection of a Son. And indeed, Reason ought to induce us to consider, that we owe more to those from whom we receive the Way of Living Well, than to those to whom we owe our first Living in the World; and that a mutual Affection is of so great Moment to Learning, that it will be to no Purpose to have a Teacher, if he be not your Friend too." I will close with the customary Jewish phrasing at times such as these: May her (their) memory be for a blessing.
Wednesday January 21, 2015 at 12:00 am
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