The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-23
COLLEGE ALuMNE.

COLLEGE ALUMNE.
In obedience to the cards OF invitation |
for the Triennial Reception OF the H. F.
G. Alumne, some three hundred guests |
assembled in the College Chapel on the
night Of the 18th Of June, and were hos
pitably welcomed by the committee on
reception, Mrs. J. F. Lloyd, Mrs. Gov.
Hart. Appropriate decoration had been
made, the class Of 's6 kindly loaning
many of their beautiful floral offerings.
The chief attraction was fine oil por-
trait Of the late DR.. Matthews, executed
by one of his former pupils, Mrs. Emma
Detwiler. 1t gave general satisfaction,
many of the old Oakland pupils fancy.
ing they could almost see him smile.
The program for the evening:
Music-Professor Mule.
Prayer-Dr. McSurely.
Roll Call--Lizzie Richards.
Solo-Mrs. Fuller.
Presentation of the class of 'S6,
"Home Lights" by DR.. Lloyd.
Address of welcome by Mrs. Anna
Ferris Hart, to the new made sisters of
the class Of 'S6, also to the visiting
alumn@ Of old Oakland, delivered in her
happiest manner:
Sisters Again we gather here in
joyous reunion, around the old hearth
stone OF our Alma Mater, and how
gladly we welcome to our festive board
and to our remembrance you who years
ago went out from among us. The
ysung, thoughtless and merry faces we
then wore, have put on the grave and
dignified garb of maturer years, and
how earnestly we have to watch each
changing emotion, to trace in each other
the old schoolgirl faces of years ago, and
as we watch we wonder. Some of us
have seen all tho vicissitudes which
usually come to mature years. We
have welcomed o! so lovingly, little
ones, to our home circle, have watched
long days and nights with anxiety by
the sick bed of those dear to us, have
tasted the bitter cup of bereavement,
We have helped to make festive the
marriage day of son or daughter, and
have taken grandchildren in our arms to
bless them. We do not wonder at this
in ourselves, but each remembers the
other as the parting lett us, and we find
that we are strangers. The old home
nest is changed. To some of us, Old
Oakland, with its homely, primitive
walls, was very rich in happy memories,
and naught is left to US but memories
In our beloved senior teacher, one o.
our number, but standing side by side
with him we have honored to-day, in
our love and esteem, we have linl
which ! hope may ever bind US to
gether. In our ambition we dreamed
of writing our names high up on the
scroll of honor. Some of us awake tc
find that we have never written then
higher than as upon tip toe we wrote
them on the ceiling at Old Oakland
( Then the College with its white-robet
dormitory is changed. The spirit who's,
|. loving ambition prompted and centeret
q in it, has gone to meet those of ou
number who have gone before, and Il
his great reward, and as we look upol
I the face which looks from the canvass
q upon us tonight, in such kind benig
, nifty o! how our hearts go out in thanks
giving for all that he was. Pure
I modest, kind, kinder to all others thar
{ to himself-and may it not be that a
: this time when our love has prompte'
the marble memorial to mark his las
q resting place, he may be permitted t
). know, and if possible be made happie
!. by our loving remembrance. How vel
do we who had the privilege of listening
!. to catch each word that fell from hi
:. whispering lips as for the last time h
+. prayed the Father for US, remembe
how earnestly he plead that this assc
citation, a trinity in name, Oakland
Jessamine, and Hillsboro College, but
unit in love, should be permanently es
tablished. Hoping to aid in this W
i publish each year the annual annex
lf and we find it highly priced by grea
, many. We of the resident Alumni,
q would like to express to you how muc
~ we enjoy the messages of remembrafic
# and Lang syne,' from your pens, an
. we earnestly wish that all might enjo
i them with US.
80 To the younger members of the asst
:. citation we extend a most hearty we
!. come. You did not know Old Oaklan
"a perhaps, or our sisters of Jessamin
~ and not even him whose name we me,
se ton so tenderly tonight, but as in ii
q. home circle the tradition of events an
d persons we know nothing of, endea
o them to us, and bind US in a neve
et ending chain to the past, SO may the'
reunions bring US more closely togethe
and each bring the bright pictur
which hang ON memory's walls to NAL
still brighter pictures, until we who fir
told tales of our 'Alma Mater shall ha,
}. gone to the great reunion and you
loft IN rehearse them and sneak in te