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As the first pussy willows like demure little
cats with soft gray fur, tell us springtime
is near; or as the first bird song trilling
from out a pastel feathered throat brings
new joy to out hearts; so does this lady inspire
us to greater things with her versatile mind ever
alert to the business of living. That is the great-
est inborn gift that one could have, an intense
interest in life from the small apparently insig-
nificant things to the great powerful, important
ones.

Such culture, refinement and ambition in one small
person seems almost unbelievable, but we who
are privileged to know her have found that it is
so and with what energy she generously bestows
it on all of us.

Now we can never attain the heights as she has
done, but we can show our gratitude and appre-
ciation by co-operating and helping in whatever
way possible to make Framingham the sort of an
institution that she would like it to be and when
we go out in the world, not forget to be a credit
to this grand person, Dr. Van Waters.

Eleia Jones.