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Mrs. Norma Stoffel Banta, who came to the Garden on Feb- 
ruary 28, 1928, as Business Office Assistant and Telephone Op- 
erator, resigned as of December 31, after eleven years and ten 
months of service. 
Miss Jane E. Coffin was appointed Business Office Assistant 
and Telephone Operator, to become effective January 1, 1940, in 
place of Mrs. Banta, resigned. Miss Coffin volunteered her serv- 
ices without salary from December 11 to 31 in order to become 
familiar with the duties of the position. 
Fic. 5. Gold Medal of the Horticultural Society of New York awarded 
to Montague Free at the Annual Flower Show Dinner, March 14, 1939- 
(9789) 
Mr. Montague Free was awarded the Gold Medal of Achieve- 
ment of the Horticultural Society of New York at the Annual 
Flower Show Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on March 14, 
in recognition of his twenty-five years of outstanding services to 
horticulture while at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw was awarded the Silver Medal of the 
Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, March 14, at their 
Annual Luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt, in appreciation of her 
twenty-five years of service in horticultural work with children at 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
At the annual meeting of the American Nature Study Society in 
Columbus, Ohio, in December, Miss Shaw, who has served as 
president of the Society during 1939, was re-elected for another 
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