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[Note surrounded by border of flowers] March 15, 1950
Dear Doctor:
Phillips Brooks wrote:
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
He must have been refering to you.
With much faith [Cornelia?] Hoffman
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[Note border by two images of daffodils] March 15, 1950
Congraulations to you Dr. Van Waters.
On your eighteenth anniversary We are certainly grateful to you, For all the wonderful things that, You have accomplished during the, Time you have been here as our, "Beloved Superintendent," We more then consider, Our selves very fortunate, To have had a person as, Capable as you, Dr. Van Waters.
Grace [Nitz?]
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"An Unforgettable Character"
Her name is Dr. Miriam Van Waters.
She is known throughout the United States as one of the greatest penologists of her time.
For the past eighteen years she has been the Superintendent of the Women's Reformatory, Framigham, Massachusetts.
To the students here she has been and is a great inspiration. She has made them feel and know that life is a precious thing and wellworth living.
She has fought bitterly to prove her thearies of penology, one of which is that a person's character can be changed for the better through understanding + spiritual help. These are two things many girls have never known.
She is a firm believer in selfhelp. She is fighting and will continue (over)
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to fight to make this possible. She believes that self-help is the forerunner of self-respect. Self respect is a very important thing because what is a person where their self respect is gone? Why, nothing of course!
We, the students of the Women's Reformatory, hail her, not as the outstanding woman of the year, but as the outstanding woman of the past eighteen years.
Thank you sincerely, Dr. Van Waters, for all you have done for us.
Happy Anniversary!
Glenda Nielsen Literary Group - 1949-1950
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[Pressed leaf]
March 15, 1950
May I upon This Day of Days Extend To you With Heartfelt Praise, A Wish That Your Remaining Days, Be Blessed by God, In His Many Ways. An Echo of Eternal Friendship, Dear Doctor, Upon This, Your Day of Days.