The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-06
HAD A HAPPY TIME
ALUMNI OF LEWIS ACADEMY HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING.

They are Entertained at the Home of Mis-
EIvie Walker Where Music and Orator,
Barwise's Historical Review as Usua
Commands Close Attention-She Tell
What All the Graduates Bave Done
List of the New Officers and Guests
banquet Follows That was Replete.
The home Of Miss Elvie Walker on
the cornor of Third street and Emporia
avenue, was the scene of happy gath
ering last night The parlors were
filed with sweet and joyous girl gradu-
ates with just enough boy graduates to
selieve the monotony if such thing as
monotony ever could exist where girls,
especially Wichita girls, are. One might
as well say that there could be
.nonotony in a valley bedecked with the
roses of spring-fresh blooming and
beautiful
The occasion was the annual reception
OF the Alumni of Lewis academy and
with all due appreciation OF the beauty
and intellect Of the other Alumni esso-
Cations they were not more uniformly
bright than the Alumni association OF
this excellent institution of learning.
During the past ten years the Lewis
academy has fitted 10 hearts and brains
for useful and happy life and of this
number great many were present last
night. The graduates are the very
highest Endorsement OF the ability of
the academy TO give pupils a beautiful
and cultured education.
Some of the finest young ladies of the
city belong TO the Alumni association
and Of the entire number Of graduates
not a single drone is amongst them.
They are all either going higher and
achieving greater victories in the realms
OF learning or are pursuing exalSing and
useful avocations.
The parior program consisted Of music
and addresses-classtc and literary.
The program was opened by a very
touching invocation by the head edu-
Gator of the academy-Professor J. NJ.
Naylor, after which the retiring presi-
dent, Miss Margaret Dean, delivered
the following address IL sweet and
pretty manner.
EX-PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
It is a great pleasure 20 welcome you.
teachers Of our happy school days, class
mates, fellow alumni and friends of the
academy. 10 this pleasant reunion.
May the New Girl with all her push
and spirit join with the rest OF us old
girls in proving the Power of Laugh
ter to dispel the cloud Of constraint and
Bring out the Stars of sociabiIty and
pleasant intercourse tonight.
This is commencement season, you
H.
OF testing and proving our bright theo-
res. OF striving to attain our ideals.
The commencement of putting into our
lives the fulhllment Of high ambitions
and nobls desires. which, thanks to the
faithful faculty Of Lewis academy, are
implanted in every graduate.
I hope you appreciate the great num-
b=r and difficulty Of the duties of the
presidency. especially when your presi-
dent 3 professionally a school marin
and ChronicaEy out of town.
s for the honor Of having been your
president I am sure have aDpracia ted
DIT for $50 days, and though the coming
year Is not quite so long, the next presi-
deI7t may have new and previously IN
heard Of honors. For who knows but
by June, 1897. Miss Jackson need only
mold an TX Ray" photograph of her
. bra Il before us and presto, her speech
Is made. l am very glad to introduce
Ito You our new president. Miss Ger
+ trude Jackson, of the class of 81.
! The new president. Miss Gertrude
jackson, who is also ex-president of the
Normal Alumni association, was the
next and she delivered an address re-
lplete with bright and happy thoughts
Mis- Jackson Is what might be called a
literary and educational phiiantrophist
She does q great deal for mind culture
and all her work along that line is
iilumned and warmed with peculiarly
joyous and enthusiastic disposition.
She says some very rich and rare things
and does it in such a rich and rare
manner that all regard her as the life
OF each gathering.
Professor J. NJ. Naylor followed with
an address such as is fiji TO be delivered
Joy any father 10 his children. 1t was
full of wit and wisdom and counsel. It
fvas highly appreciated not only for the
foregoing traits but also for the elo-
SIuent manner IN which il was delivered.
! One OF the great features Of the pro-
gram was the historical review of the
graduates of the academy and the
lcSreer of the school by Miss Mary A.
Barwise. Miss BarwiSe was also the
historian of the Normal Alumni. She
displays great taste in her historical re-
views and they are always read with
interest. Miss Barwise, like Miss Jack
lson. also Il literary and education
fal philantrophist. and as one of the local
educators she has no superior either in
zeal or ability. Her paper is given in
Hull as follows:
CLASS HISTORY.
The Lewis Academy Alumni assoc;a
fion was organized in June. 1889. with a
membership OF five ladies. The full
premiership row, including the class
lof SIS and the honorary members num-
hers about one hundred and ten. thirty
six Of whom are gentlement and seventy
-four ladies. The girls now have the ad-
Vantage in numbers at least. There is
50 much which could be said OF each one.
of the achievement. attachments and
purSuitsof study since graduation. that
Il written il would fl neat little vol
hume in itself. I suspect the sale OF this
book would be like Coins Financial
School" Everyone would read il and
a general clamor for stock IN the pub
fishing of the same would take place n
our association.
Not wishing 10 have this historical
sketch extend far into the wee hours.
however. both for my own sake as well
as yours, il VIII be necessary 10 epiton-
iZe 10 some extent, and noS make per
sonal mention OF every member.
In the rytllmic swing of events that
have marked the distinctive efforts OF
our alumni for the past seven o. eight
years, the tick-tock OF the pendulum has
Awarded