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 TO THE CITIZENS OF HARPER: On this occasion of the 100th birthday of Harper, I want to offer my best wishes for the present celebration and for the future years you will enjoy in your community. The world in which you celebrate Harper's centennial is a very different world from the one in which your predecessors established this community one hundred years ago. And yet, it is also - in a very real sense - the same world which they knew. There have been great scientific and technological changes. Yet, human beings have not changed all that much. Human hopes and fears, human dreams and strivings are very much what they were when hopes and dreams went into the founding of Harper. Human values are precisely what they were when your forebears came to this place. It is to these enduring values that you will address your centennial commemoration this year. It is this link between past and present which binds together all the generations that have invested their lives in Harper. And it is an acute appreciation of that continuity which will help all of us to take stock of where we are as Iowans, as we chart a rewarding course for the years that stretch ahead. Best wishes for a memorable centennial observance.  RDR: njm |
