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We are very glad that there is an Alfred T. White Scholar- 

 ship because publicly there will be one boy or girl a year to 

 represent Mr. Alfred T, White, but really there will be hundreds 

 of boys and girls at the Garden who represent him. 



We are writing you this letter to tell you that we are glad 

 Mr. Alfred T. White lived in Brooklyn and that he loved us. 



(Signed) 



Gordon Hart, President 

 John Schmacke, First V 



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V. P. 



February 19, 1021. 



Mary F. Asch, Third V. P. 

 Gustav Afagnusson, Treasurer 

 Everett Steevcs, Representative of 



boys and girls classes. 



SPECIAL MONTHLY REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, 



FEBRUARY lo, 192 1 , ' 



To THE Board of Trustees: 



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Gentlemen: For purpose of record I file with the Secretary 



the 



customary report of figures and items for the preceding 



month. . The irreparable loss which the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 has suffered in the death, on January 29, of Alfred T. White, the 

 first and only chairman of its Governing Com.mittee, makes all 

 other events of the past four weeks seem wholly insignificant. 

 The man who, more than any other person, made possible the 

 establishment of this Garden, and whatever of service it has 

 rendered to education, to science, to the city during the past ten 

 years, is no longer with us, forever. How can we go on without 

 him? How can / go on without him? 



No administrative officer ever had more intelhgent, more sym- 

 pathetic, more enthusiastic, more sustained, or more generous 

 and helpful support than the director of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden has had from this wonderful man. However hieh our 

 ideals, their approach would have been impossible without him; 

 however discouraging- the outlook, as it has been at times, it was 

 he who made discouragement impossible. 



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