Robert M. Barrows
Graduating class: 1950
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2000
Hall of Fame Category: Lifetime Achievement
Robert Barrows was the valedictorian of the Class of 1950. He received a Bachelor's Degree in English from Bridgewater State Teachers College and a Master's Degree in Linguistics from the University of Essex in England.
While at Bridgewater he was admitted to Kappa Delta Pi, a national honor society in education. His forty year teaching career included public schools in Plympton and Kingston, Massachusetts, international schools in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the United Nations in New York City, and in private schools in Beirut, Lebanon and Honolulu, Hawaii.
Since his retirement, Bob has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, Mexico, and Europe. His avocations are now computer studies, writing, and the continued study of modem foreign languages. He has recently published The Way It Was, his memories of growing up in Fairhaven, and is working on an autobiographical account of his forty year teaching career and travel experiences. Bob credits the excellent education he received at Fairhaven High School for much of his success in later life. English teachers Mable Hoyle Knipe and Earl J. Dias added to his love of the English language and literature. Most of all, he appreciated Doris Boucher, his French and Spanish teacher, for fostering his life long love for the study of foreign languages.