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���What I remember about Dr. Dolezal was his kind eyes. His eyes seemed to say, ���I have this great stuff to share with you. Will you join me?��� He was inclusive, insightful and empowering. He was a great teacher.��� ��� Jeanette Castro Hachmeister, Class of 1969 Lise Weil Class of 1968 ���He taught me to pay close attention to the details for punctuation and spelling. He did this by flunking me on my first research paper.��� I will always be grateful to Dr. Dolezal for making us memorize poems, and especially for making us memorize Gerard Manley Hopkins��� ���God���s Grandeur,��� which I still know by heart. It���s almost always his voice I hear when the poem comes back to me, especially the last lines, with their tidings of comfort and reassurance: ���And for all this, nature is never spent. There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; and though the last lights off the black West went oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs ��� because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.��� Dr. D.���s presence at Latin was a lot like those last lines. He brooded over our bent lives with words of warmth, comfort, and occasional ��� ���ah! bright wings������ transcendence. ��� Cathy Emmons Phelps, Class of 1962 48 L AT I N M AGAZINE Cathy Emmons Phelps Class of 1962 The first year Dr. Dolezal taught at Latin, I had him for American lit. He taught me to pay close attention to the details for punctuation and spelling. He did this by flunking me on my first research paper. It was a harsh reality check, but it instantly made me a better writer. I applaud the courage of a young teacher to flunk a student, and his compassion to allow me to retype the paper and be regraded on the content. (And retyping meant retyping each page on a manual typewriter.) I learned such a valuable lesson: Always pay attention to the details, whether one is writing a paper or designing a house.