with respect and affection whenever the Rotary Club meets in Falmouth.
IN MEMORIAM
WALTER S. Y O U N G
Harrison E. Howe
Superintendent of Schoole Worcester, Mass.
les wood pulp development, based upott the difference in t h e cost o:f the cotton a n d wood pulp, will lower the c o s t of manufac ture of smokeless powder sut United State» ordnance plants about $20,000,000 in 1943.
Dear Friends of O l d D E A R friends of old! How oft have I at night, U p o n m y pillowed couch ere slumber fell, N o t whispered all their names! I softly tell And numt>er them—those friends now gone fr-oin sight. I call the s i l e n t roll from t h a t first year When d i e d a playmate of m y boyhood's past. Until I c o m e t o thee, old friend, t h e last To leave jxist now of those I held most dear. Do they stall think of us, o r speak our name, When m e t in some celestial place afar, Perhaps adjacent t o yon rising star That glimmers through my open window framed We cannot s a y : no mortal ever can. T h i s o n e conviction only grows more clear— T h a t e a c h lost Mend still worketh somewhere near In furtherance of some great perfect plan. Those vanished ties t h a t bind us in their fold Surpass all else t h a t memory recalls. A n d so u p o n m y couch ere slumber falls I whisper t o o thy name, dear friend of old. C . A. BROWNE
A Tribute from Rotary1 Τ τ i s difficult to realize t h a t the good fellowship that Harrison Howe and I enjoyed in the Falmouth Rotary Club now becomes a part of my storehouse of mem ories. T h e spark of life burned so brightly in h i s personality that his passing seems almost a contradiction of Nature. He combined t o a rare degree the scientific spirit w h i c h explored in t h e realm of chemical research and the warm human affections that go to make our everyday life so delightful. He was known every where in fais field of science and through his connections with societies and publi cations. S i s influence went far beyond the boundjs of local activity. His return to F a l m o u t h each year after a busy life in W a s h i n g t o n w a s in response to a great urge to e s c a p e from the formality of things to the freedom and quiet of the seaside. I n the enjoyment of the sea, in the cultivation of his lovely garden, in the appreciation of all things beautiful on Cape C o d , he was but expressing his elo quent tribute t o the Creation which he admired s o much and which he did so much to explain to his fellow men. As was said o f another who passed o n long ago, the oieath of Harrison Howe leaves a lonesome p l a c e against the s k y . For many years to c o m e his name will b e mentioned 1 Reprinted from the December i 8 , 1942.
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