The Portland daily press., 1895-06-26
BRIDGTON ACADEMY ALUMNI.
The Grand Reunion Today and To
morrow.

Extensive Arrangements Have Been Com
pleted.-Facts as to the Programme,-A
Least 200 Alumni Expected to Attend tn
Observation-Disclosures Portland Mel
Among the Alumni
The grand reunion of the alumni o
Bridgton Academy will take place toda.
and tomorrow and promises to be one o
the most interesting and notable event
of this commencement season in Cumber
land county. Llewellyn Barton, Esq
of this city, chairman of the COMMITTEES
of arrangements reports that everything
is now ready and that in all probabilit,
at least 200 of the alumni will be pres
ent at the grand banquet, Thursday after
nonn. This evening the reunion begins
with an address before the Alumni Asso
citation, by Mrs. Kate Tryon, of Cam
bridge, Mass. Her subject will be q Day
with Birds" and it is needless to say tina
she knows how to make this subject o
rare interest, even to those who do no
enthuse over the beautiful feathered song
sters of the Maine fields and forest.
The meeting of the Alumni Association
at O'Clock, Thursday morning, is fol
organization and election of officers. A
SCaoIebl 6ApICsSlOH VI NlcWS Is uSSlEel, d
to the ways and means of making the as
sociation a greater factor in upbuildine
and promoting the interests of the school
A special effort will be made to perfec
arrangements whereby all alumni of tht
academy may be discovered and enrolled
on the list. In its early days the academy
had no graduations for some years an(
many who have been students there hay,
thus never been catalogued. The eAer
OF 1 fl3a look .icf bO,,t
reminiscent, personal sketches of schoo
life from 1879, the beginning of the Acad
emys' renaissance, to the present time BY
DR.. A. N. Witham, South Paris, 80
Alvin G.. Dresser, Standish, 'S4; Carri,
H. Babb, Portland. 's7; Mamie A. Babb
Sebago, 80; Fred Leroy PotUle, Lowell
'93; Chas. Sumner Poore, Sebago, '95.
These sketches will be limited to te1
minutes s1each. There will also be ad
on the various professions.
The Law, Llewellyn Barton, Esq.
Portland, class of 80.
The Ministry, Rev. Henry W. Webb
Bridgton, class of 'S5.
Medicine, Walter D. Williamson, Cor
ham, M. D., class of 'S5.
Teaching, Prof o. Willis Kemp
Springfield Mass, class of '79.
Journalism, Charles A. EG. jackson
A short poem written for the occasion
will be given by Mrs. Jennie Bodge John
son, Gorham, class of '6S.
The grand banquet in Ingalls, Hall a
2 p. M, Thursday will be the event O
the day. The alumni will march in pro
cession from Academy Hall. The pro
cession will form by classes, in the reverse
order of gradution, the classes since 1871
acting as escort to the faculty, trustees
invited guests and older graduates.
The seating capacity of the tables il
limited to 300 and admission tickets are
necessary.
Tickets can be ordered now by address
ing the secretary, Byron Kimball ESQ.
North Bridgton, Maine. They will bt
held for the parties ordering them unit
l O'Clock, Thursday, p. m, when, if moi
one desiring tickets. Single tickets fol
the banquet are fifty cents. The Secre
AIRY will be at the Old Academy Build
ing, from to IL a. m., and from l to
p. m.. Thursday to supply those having
ordered, or those desiring tickets for the
banquet.
Hon. Edward F. Brown, of New York
president of the board of trustees will
preside at the banquet. The public will
principal speakers will be Judge A. Fl.
Walker. of Bridgton, one of the alumni
whose subject will be Manhood of Boy
and Boyhood of Man, State Superin.
tendent of Schools Stetson, on "What
Education is of the Greatest Value .
and Prof. Elmer E. French, the new
principal of the academy, on "The
Academy of the Future F" There will.
alsosbe brief speeches by the "boys'' and
Hgirls, - of 20, 80 and even so years ago
There will be an original ode by Miss
Florence Phinney SO, of Norway and Miss
E. Louise Hill, the well known elocutior
ist, will read. Letters will be read from
prominent alumni, who could not be
present and among them letter from
the Rev. Thomas r. Stone, of Bolton
Mass, who is 81 years of age, who firsl
attended the academy in 1918 and is the
Oldest living alumni and who is the oldes
living alumni of BoWdoin also, his class
graduating in 1890.
In the evening there will be concert
by the Clark Hood Concert Company, of
Boston.
Many prominent Portland men ar,
alumni of this old academy, including
Gov. Henry B. Cleaves, Judge S. G.
Strout, Hon. A. A. Strout, Hon. George
r. Emery, Col Henry S. Osgood, james
L. Rack1if, George E. McQuillon, Irvil
W. Parker, John H. Fogg and others.
Judge Symond's S father was also al
alumni of the academy and the Judge
was invited to be present and speak a.
the banquet, but will be unable to accept
The committee of arrangements ar,
Llewellyn Barton, chairman; Byron
Kimball secretary and George S. Farms
worth, George H. Larabee and M LARA
bee and Miss Lily Agnes Brown.