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thanks to the officers of this body for the fidelity with which they have discharged their important duties and for the kindly assistance and for the unfailing courtesy of which I have been the recipient." ME. STEVENSON'S PORTRAIT UNVEILED BLOOMINGTON, NOVEMBER 26, 1914 In the presence of several hundred people, filling all the available space of the reading room and the art annex of the Public Library, the curtain was withdrawn on Thanksgiving afternoon from the life-sized oil portrait of the late Adlai E. Stevenson. Coincident with the formal unveiling of this work as a permanent feature of the Russell art room, there were de- livered a number of short addresses from citizens who had known Mr. Stevenson in life, recalling some of the outstanding features of his notable career. The ceremony of the afternoon was strictly an affair just among ourselves. It was a tribute of Bloomingtonians to a dis- tinguished Bloomingtonian, and it had more of the personal ele- ment in it than characterized the more formal eulogies pro- nounced at the services immediately following Mr. Stevenson 's death last June. Immediately following the brief talks by several citizens the company of listeners gathered, standing, in the art room itself, and centered their gaze upon the center of the east wall, where was draped a blue curtain. Rev. J. N. Elliott, who had acted as master of ceremonies, then introduced Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Stevenson, and grandson of the

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