a memoir by Marie Farnsworth Willcox
Copyright 1930
"To those in the Bennett School and elsewhere
who are in spirit Miss Bennett's own
this book is dedicated."
- from the Forward
who are in spirit Miss Bennett's own
this book is dedicated."
- from the Forward
"Watch May Bennett, catch her spirit if you can. She radiates sunshine wherever she goes." - Miss Ellen Hyde, Farmingham Normal School Principal
"I should certainly like to live to see what this child does with her life; she's always in the tall grass!"
- an aunt of May Bennet's to her father upon return from a stay with her relatives |
"A leaf turning over in the wind could thrill her!"
- one of Miss Bennett's employees |
"The hesitancy that springs from too much caution or from fear she did not have."
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"And now, the Senior midyear is before you - eleven beautiful weeks. May there be seventy-seven days of blue sky and grey sky and sunrise and sunset and the star-shine and moonshine, and hard lessons and easy ones, and rides, and drives and games, and fun and friends! Friends! And you ready to take each one at a time with all the fullness of Life and Joy there is in you."
- Miss Bennett, Christmas 1913 |
"It's just bed-time and you would come to me, if you could, and tuck your head on my shoulder and get the relief that comes to a brave little worker who is just struggling with all the staggering weight of big burdens and perplexities. And it would comfort me to know that you know where to come for the rest that it is just to be a tired child. But you are not here, you are where you are most needed in this beautiful, wonderful universe."
- from one of Miss Bennett's many letters to alumnae
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