Etta Owen, center, front row, at her retirement dinner in 1968. On her left is Dr. William G. Heeks; her right, Agnes Costello. Back row, left to right: John H. Winant, Robert C. Sprague, Kenneth S. Brown, John D. Washburn. Etta was a part of Sprague’s Quarter Century Club, which honored workers who had been with the company for more than twenty-five years.