That wonderful kindness with which you looked upon all our shortcomings has been the great example of kindness I have looked to all these days.
That wonderful equality of judgment with which you decided all our cases, has always remained unquestioned in my heart.
And that which most of all has influenced my life has been that wonderful quietness with which you have possessed your soul.
I am more grateful to you every day I live and more thankful for the years spent under your influence.
We are all to be congratulated because of this birthday. May you have many, many more and may you know better every year how much we all love you.
Yours most sincerely,
Mary Drew, '87.
Believing that the only real satisfaction to a teacher after all is the knowledge that somewhere down the years there sounds an echo of his effort, I am venturing to add my word of appreciation to you on your birthday.
There in your office and classroom I received, as have hundreds of others, the inspiration—the vision, if you will, of what life means—and there are no memories more hallowed than those of the associations at St. Johnsbury Academy. Year after year for thirty years I've watched the groups of young men and women leave the institution but never without a keener appreciation of what the years had meant to us.
Not for the first time do I say that whatever little success I may have had with young people is due in large measure to the help received at your hand, and with all my heart I thank you for your firm and gentle guidance, your paternal influence over us all, and most of all for your exemplary Christian character that never failed.