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Gardiner, Maine 04345
February 7, 1978

Ms. Lucille M. Pelletier, Chairman
The Centennial Committee
The University of Maine at Fort Kent
Fort Kent, Maine 04743

Dear Lucille and Committee Members,

My acquaintance with your college extends from 1930, when all the Maine normal school faculties met in the fall at Farmington to discuss matters of common concern, to 1971, when I retired from the Board of Trustees of the united ("super") University of Maine.

During the last two decades of that span our normal schools underwent a quiet revolution which brought about improvements in courses, programs, faculty preparation, academic study offerings, laboratories, libraries, buildings and standards for admission and graduation. Nowhere, perhaps, were the changes more thoroughgoing than at Fort Kent. It was my happy lot to help with several of those changes, and I recall the association with the college and its people with deep and lasting pleasure.

Some things at Fort ent fortunately did not change:
the attractiveness, good manners and eagerness of the students, the loyalty and ability of teachers and administrators, and the unusually supportive pride of Saint John Valley people.

May the University of Maine at Fort Kent in its next hundred years hold fast to these old loyalties and virtues, and continue to test and adopt improvements in higher education and teacher preparation. May it continue to be "a burning lamp...a flame the wind cannot blow out" in the lives of its young people, and an ornament to its great Valley and its State, ever performing its unique tasks with skill and grace and dedication.

Yours most sincerely,

Hayden L.V. Anderson
Former Director of the Division
of Professional Services,
Maine State Department of Education

HLVA .. ha