The best wish I can offer you today on your seventy-fifth birthday is that you may realize more and more what a mighty power for good you have been and are in the lives of an army of men and women today who once fell under your influence.
Very sincerely,
Caroline S. Woodruff, '84.
I wonder how many of us you can remember and whether any of our failings are still in your mind?
You only had me for a short time, but such as it was it completed my school work.
In fact it was my only schooling away from home. I am therefore able to recall vividly many impressions made on my mind during the time I was under your charge. I formed the impression that you were absolutely fair and honest with your scholars and that you expected no higher standard of conduct from them than you were practising every day. I can see you as you were then and wonder why, with such an example, we did not do better.
I do not say this because it is your seventy-fifth birthday but because it is true and I wish you to know that I realized it.
Seventy-five years of upright living comes to but very few and is a crown of glory more valuable than great wealth or political advancement and I most sincerely congratulate you on having achieved this end. May your remaining days be filled with content and happiness and may the expressions of appreciation and love that you are sure to receive at this time, bring to you a partial reward for all you have done in the past for your fellows.
Sincerely and lovingly yours,
G. H. Prouty.