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14 of 1944 - A resolution of respect from Salt Lake City Corporation in memory of Miss Ethel Macdonald, former Ci Resolution No. By ::..,.ayor Jlade COMMISSIONER i'rom ty on in . iss fcr:as...r i•-•• Presented to Mt)Board of Commissioners AND PASSED AUG-3 1944 CIITY 16, Rec.104 // -- ROLL CALL VOTING AYE I NAY Salt Lak City,Utah, s' *3 1344 193 Coggin --- I move that resolution No. by Mr Keyser be adopted. Matheson TlC V McConkie Mr.Chairman - - Result ca4 Resolutions of Respect from Salt Lake City Corporation, in Memory of our Beloved Associate and Fellow- orker, Ethel Macdonald, Former City Recorder. August 1 1944 In the withdrawing to "The Great Cut-There" of our bel- oved friend and co-laborer, Ethel Macdonald, there passed from us a lovely soul who always looked for the best in others; ;:hose life was an inspiration any' whose .memory is a benediction. For nearly one-half a century she served Salt Lake City. That service was the embodiment of diligence, efficiency and loyalty. She viewed her work as a sacred trust - as such she treated it. As representative of our municipality, she personified the Golden hula rather than the rule of gold. The humblest citizen was accorded by her the same considerate attention as was given the most powerful. To all, it was "do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you." This thoughtful kindness to tense whom she served was reflected down the years in her gracious personality. out her being swore of it, she exemplified the lines of Markham, =.,hen he said: "There is a destiny that ::::,kes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own." • Ethel Macdonald realized that the ')ivine Plan of the Uni- verse is a plan of harmony - - toward that end she strove. the recognized the power of faith in mundane things, as well as in affairs of the soul. She thus recalled that"a task without vision is drudgery; a vision without a task is a dream; a task with a vision is victory." Her's was victory: the was gracious and generous in sharing her ener;;ies and her interests on the compelling premise that we are worth to society only what we have to share. An ancient couplet states it thus: "',;'hat I kept, I lost, whet I spent, I had; what I gave, I have." Ethel Macdonald was a living witness that we should attune our lives to be sensitive to the finer impulses which surge throughout the world. In a city there is much of good everywhere; even though there are those who could bury it in the sordid and the drab. It would profit us all to remember the truth once uttered by a great .;merican statesman: "Our civilization cannot sur- vive materially, unless it be redeemed spiritually." ;nd so, as mayor of Salt Lake City, on behalf of the Board of Commissioners, representing the thirteen hundred employees of our municipality we send to the beloved ones this humble message of appreciation of this fine friend, now of sacred memory: In saying a reverent "Adieu" to Ethel Macdonald, for forty-four years our fellow.-worker, we recall the inspiring lines of a great American: "I watched a sail until it dropped from sight, Over the rounding sea. A ;gleam of white, A last, far-flashed farewell, and like a thought Slipt out of mind, it vanished and was not. Yet to the helmsmen standing at the wheel, _3road seas still stretched beneath the gliding keel. Disaster? Change? He felt no slightest sign, : or dreamed he of that far horizon line. o may it be, perchance, wmem down the tide Our dear ones vanish. Peacefully they glide On level seas, nor mark the unknown bound. © call it death - to them it is life beyond." (Signed) .,aygr, For the hoar f City Ooc. issioners it wes resolved thet the bye7�in?.;esolu ion be // -.. e .:n . 7,.. prhelved