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X Bvnnlutinn nf the ililnarh Enoch A. Gastman, schoolmaster, citizen and friend, President of the State Board of Education, Superintendent of the Decatur City Schools and President of the Board of Managers of the Decatur College and Industrial School of The James Millikin University, died in Boston, Massa- chusetts, on the morning of August 3, 1907. ln the loss of our beloved leader, whose fellowship and counsel we have so long enjoyed in private and ollicial life, we, his associates on the Board of Managers, desire to expresslour warm appreciation of his eminent services to -the general cause of education in this country, to the schools of Decatur and Macon County, to which he has devoted almost half a century o'f a busy and self-sacrificing life, but more particularly to The James Millikin Univer- sity, in whose development he took kindly interest from the beginning. His long experience in educational affairs and his thorough -acquaintance with modern educational problems, together with his quick discernment and his systematic business methods, made him at once an invaluable mem- ber of the 'Board of Managers on his appointment in June, 1904. As the executive otlicer of the Board since july, 1905, he has discharged the responsibilities of his office with 'the highest satisfaction to us, to the faculty and to the friends of the institution in general. Few men in pub- lic life have so long, so fully and so deservedly enjoyed the confidence and affection of all classes of people. 1-le was a man of such genial nature, such lofty charac- ter, such disinteresteid motives, such courageous convic- tions, such devotion to dulty, such genuine worth, such tender sympathy, such delicaicy of sentiment, that appar- ently without effort he was ever exercising a wholesome and widespread influence for larger and better things. l-n kindly and affectionate remembraince, we instruct our Secretary to spread -this expression of our regard for our deceased brother upon our minutes and to transmit a copy of the same to the bereaveid family, to whom we ten- der our heartfelt sympathy in the far keener loss that has come to them, It is our hope that they may find com- fort in the assurance that h-e but enters upon a higher state of activity for which he so assiduously prepared himself whi-le here. Luther F. Martin, Il. P. lrving, A. R. Montgomery. A. R. Taylor, Committeee for Board of Managers. Decatur, lll., August 5, 1907. l u Uhr Millihrk 15 U H
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