Evening journal., 1890-01-16
AlIlMNl AssocIATloN.


Most Successful.
The Alumni Association of the Boys
High School held its first quarterly en-
tertainment In the Assembly Room of the
High School Building, last evening. The
large room was comfortably filed with
alumni and alumne and their friends.
Members of the entertainment and
executive committees acted as ushers.
A few minutes past o'clock President
Robert Adair called the assembly to
order On the platform were seated
Charles Baird, president of the Board OF
Education, David r. Smith and Dr.
James II. Morgan, members of the Board;
Lawrence B. Jones, secretary and treas.
urer of the board; David w. Harlan,
superintendent of the public schools;
Professor A. H. Berlin, principal OF the
Boys High School: DR.. William G. Pierce,
chairman of the executive committee Of
the Alumni Association.
In his opening remarks President Adair
alluded to the old organization which
died through oyermuch indulgence in
appetite for banquets. From 1870 to
1885, inclusive, over 100 young men have
been graduated from the High School .
The object Of this association is to dis
seminate good fellowship and keep up
the acquaintances acquired in school
DAYS The new association is on entirely
new lines, the literary and social feature,
rather than that of banquets. -Four
meetings will be held each year and the
public is invited to them. The program,
as rendered, follows:
Piano solo, drops Of Water 4,
Recitation. .spartatus TO the Roman Il. 90
Senate .... Niss Harriette y fhWley. ~
1 (fpnfpalfo enfp ttfTig / -
o0u'' 1''' 's-'' Miss Mary X. Thielman, IS.
Dramatic reading, scenes from a,,,a,aa j,
Macbeth. m.............. John /. Whelan, ~
Twenty minutes intermssion.
| Address .......... .....+. Charles Baird
/ Piano duet, overture from semi -
ramide. ... The Misses rarker, ~ and 'Ss
| Soprano solo, Anchored, ~. So, -.
Recitation. 1.-THE Old Man and jim IS
Charles q. Palmer, 80
Address 49,. Professor A. II. Berlin
Miss Nellie Parker, 81, was accom-
PIANIST President Baird made an address
of encouragement to the association. He
alluded to the remarkable fact that but
foar deaths have occurred in the ranks o
the alumni since 1875 when the first class
was graduated. The High School wal
never ia better condition than II il
now. The instructors show great inter
est In the work and the school is GROWING
in usefulness. The graduates of TIN
school are filing positions of response
bility in all the professions. He urge
that graduates continue their interest il
the school and in education so that Will
mington schools may be second to none
Professor Berlin said the Alumni Asso
citation could help the school work amaz
ingly. 1t gives an added dignity TO ever
member of the school. The principle 0
J education now is. instruction leading I
construction. and that is being inculca
: ted here. The traveller who drinks o
/ the water of the Nile, returns to drinl
again, 80 the Alumni Association, as tn
( Nile, is glad to have you come back
The intermission of twenty minute
0 was accepted by many to renew oil
friendship. Graduates who we're presen
5 signed the Constitution and By Laws,
] copy of them having been transcribed b,
} | Frank NJ Black, '79. Graduates desirin
] | to sign the Constitution. may do so a
the Office of William K. Hawkins
{ | treasurer, No. 7I2 Market street. Man
: of the young women expressed regre
/ that there was no Alumn@ Associatio
a Of the Girls High School.
( President Adair in his closing remark
thanked the Board for the use Of Il
J. room, the young women for their assis
r ance in completing the program, and Il
n audience for its attendance and attention