The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-13
FITTINGLY
HONORfD
Eightieth Anniversary OF
Susan l. Mills
Birthday.

Six weeks ago there was FORWARDED
from here to Mills College. California
beautifully illuminated memoria
message of felicitation and devotion t
Mrs. Susan Lincoln Mills, commemora
ting the celebration of that noble
woman's eightieth birthday anniver
sary.
The senders We're men and women O.
Hawaii who We're, years ago, pupils O.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mills.
the following graceful letter of &C
acknowledgement:
My dear Mr.. Damon: Allow me tc
| thank you and all our old students and
friends who joined with you in send
ing me the beautiful testimonial for my
eightieth birthday. 1t came just in
| time; in perfect order and was a great
| surprise.
1T was much admired for its arts
tic beauty and still more for it's choice
and appreciative words of congratula-
| ton.
The beautiful testimonial in its koa
frame attracted much attention. 1t
was hung under our fine organ in Lis
| ser Hall. A copy of it was read by
| Rev. c. r. Brown, the President of
the Board of Trustees. to the assem-
| bled audience.
Letters and congratulations from
the islands were read and truly ap-
preciated.
Il feel unworthy of the many honors
bestowed upon me both in San Fran
cisco and in our own Lisser Hall. There
was nothing that so touched my heart
as this message from Hawaii.
My life in the islands was very hap
py though a very strenuous one. [
went there as the Presidents wife but
as my old students will remember soon
became an instructor along many lines
Mr.. Mills and I shared the home life
of the large family. Those who were
our pupils and friends have a large
warm place in my heart and many
tender memories have been awakened
by this unexpected gift.
please convey my sincere thanks TO
all the dear friends with whom 1 have
so many tender associations.
Il thank you all and say from sin
cere heart God bless you all most
abundantly.
Your old and sincere friend.
SUSAN LINCOLN MILLS
A very large number of congratula-
tory messages were received from rep
resentatives of the leading colleges and
universities of the country, by promi
nent men and women who have long
known Mrs. Mills personally, and by
great numbers of former students who
could not be present at the college on
the occasion of the celebration.
The event marked the four-score
milestone in life which has been de-
voted for the last sixty years to the
task of guiding, guarding and uplift-
ing and instructing the minds and
hearts of four thousand young women
who have passed in and out of the
doors of that famous college.
Mrs. Mills filled the chair of profess
sor of natural sciences at Oahu College
when her beloved husband, the late
Rev. Cyrus T. Mills, was officiating as
president of the same institution.
During the anniversary exercises at
the college, the magnificent gift of
$40, 600 for the new college library was
announced, as also the generous addi-
ton of $4,000 by Florence Pape Frank of
San Francisco, to the million dollar en-
doWment fund
Mrs. Mills was the recipient of some
very handsome birthday gifts from the
Faculty, the students and her number
less friends.