Delta Pi
In Memoriam

When I die,
Write but one word on my stone:
Write "Teacher"...
Never mind a date or name,
For only in this way would I be known,
Without a title,
Timeless,
Without Fame.
Perhaps some
Who wander through the grounds
Where I lie sleeping,
As they pass through
May read the brief tributes above the mounds,
And note the word,
Then speak of some they knew.
"Now my first teacher
Taught me how to love,"
And "I remember how one teacher smiled."
"Another teacher took my thoughts above
The world I knew."
And, as these thoughts are stirred, above my head,
I shall be teaching...though mortals call me dead.

Mrs. Mary Oler, Texas Honary Member
The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, Winter 1978