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It was decided to hold Personnel Dinners hereafter at five year 

 intervals, and that, if the 25-year period of service terminated 

 nearer to the date of this dinner than to that of the dinner to he 

 held five years hence, the certificate of service would he presented 

 this year. 



Miss Shaw, curator of Elementary Instruction, presided as 

 "master of ceremonies." A beautiful scroll, designed by Miss 

 Michalena Lefrere Carroll, instructor, was presented to each of 

 the 14 employees who have been at the Garden 25 years, more or 

 less. Miss Loines, introduced by Miss Shaw, presented a scroll to 

 Dr. Gager, who presented to Miss Carroll, as designer of the 

 scroll, a bouquet of roses cut from our own Rose Garden on 

 November 22, and preserved in the dark, imbedded in moist sand. 

 1 le then presented the scrolls to the other quarter-century employees. 

 The names and terms of service of the recipients are as follows: 



Twenty-five Years or More of Skrvice 



Name Date appointed Period of .Service 



C. Stuart Gager July 1 , 1910 30 yrs., 4 mos. 



John McCallum July 1911 29 yrs., 4 mos. 



Harold A. Caparn Jan. 1 , 1912 28 yrs., 10 mos. 



Martin Davitt July 14, 1912 28 yrs., 5 mos. 



John Juzwick Alar. 1913 27 yrs., 8 mos. 



Maud H. Purdy Sept. 29, 1913 27 yrs., 2 mos. 



Ellen Eddy Shaw Oct. 1,1913 27 yrs., 1 mo. 



Montague Free Mar. 1914 26 yrs., 8 mos. 



Alfred Gundersen Apr. 1, 1914 26 yrs., 7 mos. 



Frank Stoll Sept. 9, 1914 26 yrs., 2 mos. 



Louis Buhle Jan. 1, 1915 25 yrs., 10 mos. 



William Keller Feb. 1915 25 yrs., 9 mos. 



Ralph C. Benedict Apr. 1,1916 24 yrs., 8 mos. 



Manfred Quist Sept. 5, 1917 23 yrs., 2 mos. 



Following the presentation of certificates, Mr. McDonald spoke 

 of the work ol the Garden and its importance from the scientific, 

 educational, and civic points of view. The chairman of the dinner 

 committee then made brief pertinent remarks, including a " per- 

 sonnel " poem, and the program terminated with a most interesting" 

 exhibition of legerdemain and ventriloquism by Mr, Alfred Baker, 

 a well known professional prestidigitator of Brooklyn. 



