MAY MONROE
1865 - 1913
By the death of May Monroe, for fourteen years in-
structor in Spoken English, Vassar College has lost
a teacher of distinctive power and a personality of
rare graciousness and charm. An original conception
of her field of work, a constant reference of its
every detail to fundamental principle rather than to
mere authority, an unusual gift of recognizing and
developing the individual capacities of her students,
made her teaching a living force in the college. Those
who knew her only casually remember her unfailing
gentle courtesy, her generous estimates of others;
those more closely associated with her honor a charac-
ter of finest integrity, a nature incapable of unkind-
ness or of self-seeking. She gave unsparingly of her
skill and training both to the students and to the
teaching body. The Faculty of Vassar College desires
to record upon its minutes and to express to the
family of Miss Monroe its sense of the irreparable
loss sustained by the College and its heart-felt
sympathy.
Gertrude Buck
Emilie Louise Wells
J. Leverett Moore
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