Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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MRS. HANNAH DUNCAN

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To Mrs. Duncan Well, Lena, and what is it today? Cold? We ' ll fix that up. Come right in here. There I have some nice ... Oh. no, Mrs. Duncan. I ' m all right. I onlv wanted to . . . To come and see me? Well, isn ' t that nice of vou. It ' s so nice to have . . . But Mrs. Duncan, we want to dedicate our book . . . ' And vou ' d like to discuss it with me? I ' m honored, Lena, reallv. Well, ... . (desperately) To you. We want it dedicated to vou. Oh. Lena! This brief scrap of conversation between our dear nurse and class president took place when Lena went to tell Mrs. Duncan that we liked her so much we wanted to dedicate our class book to her. The first thing she thought of was her picture. But. Lena . . . you want my picture in vour book? And now that the picture is taken and printed, we ' d like to say it really doesn ' t do her justice; in fact, no picture could. That kindlv. busv. efficient air which is so characteristic of her and makes the infirmarv a place to which we love to go, is hard to catch in a photograph. Just the same, we will never forget it, and when we pick up our nineteen-thirtv-four class book some forty or fifty vears from now and see her picture there, she will be as dear to us in memory as she is now in realitv. It would be hard to forget one who has been such a help to all of us, certainlv, in more ways than one. Although we go to her for our sick bodies, somehow she manages to administer to our sick souls too. Our Mrs. Duncan is more than nurse, more than doctor; and in dedicating our book to her we mean to tell her that above all she is our friend.

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