Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-01
GREEK SYMBOLS.
But the Table Loaded With Good
American Delicacies.

The annual banquet Of the Washington
Alumni Association Of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity was held last evening at
Welcker's, the half hundred members being
seated around table that was beautifully
decorated with red. blue and gold and with
mysterious symbols that would have been
as so much Greek to the uninitiated. 1t
was the eleventh annual reunion of the To-
cal association. and, as usual, was a very
pleasant affair
Prior to the dinner there was a business
meeting,at which these officers were elected:
President. Wilson s. Bissell, Postmaster
General. a graduate of the Phi parent
chapter at Yale; vice president Represen-
tative j. Frank Aldrich of Chicago former
ly president Of the Northwestern Dixie.
Club; secretary. DR.. William H. Hawkes.;
treasurer Maj. T. B. Kirby; executive COM
mittee Representative Warner of New
York. Mr.. Robert NJ. Collins and Mr.. o. c.
Richardson. Then the company. marched
to the dining room, where. behind closed
doors. the old-time ritual for beginning the
meeting of the fraternity was celebrated
Representative John Dewitt Warner pre-
sided and the oldest graduate present, ex-
Representative Mark Dunnell Of Minnesota,
who graduated from Colby University back
in 1S49, responded to "Our Fraternity" and
parsons Of the convention at Bowdoin, in
'55. and at Minneapolis. In '93, both of
which he figured in. There were speeches
by Messrs. Roe, Rice. Williams, Joy, Whit
ney, Lieb. Lapham. Wales, Twombley,
Lantz, Hester and Blackboard, and between
them all were sandwiched the fraternity
songs, closing with the doxology. Hail to
Our Brotherhood"
Those Present.
Those who were present at the dlaner
were the Secretary Of the Navy, of the Uni
versity OF Virginia; Senator Brice, Miami;
Senator Butler. University Of North Carroll
ma; Senator Dubois, Yale IA; Representa-
tive John Dewitt Warner, Cornell II;
Representative Oscar Lapham, Brown; Rep
resentative James P. Pigott. Yale, rs; Rep
resentative James b. McCreary, Central
College OF Kentucky; Representative J..
Frank Aldrich, Troy Polytechnic; Repre-
sentative Jones. University Of Virginia;
Representative Joy, Yale; Commissioner of
Patents Seymour. Yale; Assistant Attorney
General Whitney, Yale: ex-Representative
w. Denny. Dartmouth. '57: H. s. Cum
mings. Dartmouth '62; Prof, William Hark-
ness. University of Rochester, IS; William
J. Leib. Amherst. 53; Col b. Lewis Black
ford. Virginia, 81; Leigh Robinson. Vir-
ginia, 80; Col. ]. NJ. Whitney, Bowdoin. '64:
DR.. w. II. Hawkes., Brown, 81; Mai. Thos.
b. Kirby. Yale. 81; DR.. j. F. r. Appleby,
lafayette, "a: Franklin W. Lantz. Indiana.
Twombley. Dartmouth. '76; DR.. A. G. VIII
kinson. Yale. 81; James .. Rice, Yale, 10;
Charles L. Dubois. Troy Polytechnic. IA;
Maj. George r. Wales, Middlebury, 81; o.
Z. Richardson, Western Reserve, 'SS; Frank
s. Williams, Harvard, 81; Jesse Grant Roe,
Lafayette, 81; Warren W. Rich, Colgate.
81: F. A. Sebring. Rochester, 'S6: Dr. A. b.
Coolidge. Colgate, 'S2: Charles T. Thomp-
son, University Of Michigan; George Muir
ray Rice, Columbia. 81; Robert M. Collins.
Middiebury. 80; William Quimby, Dart
mouth, "a; Prof. Frank H. Knowlton, Mid
dlebury. "a: Ralph G. Powell Yale, 90; Dr..
Leigh T. Baker. University Of Michigan, 30;
Charles Dickson, Kentucky, '93: u McNu.
Ian Hamilton, Cornell, "a, and Joe F, Hes
ter, University of North Carolina, o.