The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-03

/ The annual reception given by the Alum
nae Association to the graduates of '96 was
! held last night in Eden Hall and was an
evening OF great success and enjoyment.
| The hail was profusely decorated with
| High School colors by a committee. Of
| which Miss Esther M. Strickland was
chairman, and many potted ferns and soft
ly-shaped lamps made pretty setting for
the graceful, airy gowns worn by the
young women. The chaperones of the even
irg Professor and Mrs. A. H. Berlin Super
iLteLGent and Mrs. David w. Harlan, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel +. Belts, President
Charles Baird, Lewis B. Morrow, Miss
Mary C. Springer. Miss Mary C. l. Will
Hams. Miss May Lakeland, DR.. William G.
Pierce, Guy e. Wells. Miss Elizabeth Pal
mer, Esther M. Strickland, Elsie Mcdaniel
and Mrs. Elmer NJ. Benson, took their po-
stions at the front Of the room at s o'clock
and received the members of the class of
sc as they marched in by twos.
After all the members of the Alumnae
and their friends had greeted the chape-
rones Miss Palmer, president of the Alum
nae, welcomed the graduates in few we'll
chosen words and extended them hearty
welcome as Alumnae. Miss Baird re-
sponded for her class and Frank McCaus-
land thanked the Alumnae for according
his class the honor of being invited to par
ticipate in the evenings festivities The
beautiful class song was sung and the in
spring '96 yell vocferously given. Ices
and cake were served informally between
the dances, which were begun Immediate
ly after the little programme had been
completed, and soon had the effect of
making everybody social and in happy
mood. The feeling is general among the
members Of the board the faculty and the
graduates themselves that the commence
ment season of '96 has been an extremely
creditable one, and so the gayetles of this
evening were all the more enjoyable to the
participants and to the members of the
Alumnae, who contributed to their success.
The association expects to receive sub
stantial increase in its membership from
the present class.
Among the guests in attendance were the
Misses Martha W. Aeker. Margaret j.
Bareford, Mabel E. Baird, Martha B. Craw-
ford, L. Emma Carpenter. Ethel M. Cooper
AnhaiN. Diyeney, Mary T. Doherty. Katha-
ripe' Nj spougherty, Mary F. Duffy. Lulu
MElliott, Florsnca Carlisle Faust, Esther
J8Foreman, May C. Herring, Luce A. Hill
dreth, Matilda c. Fredd, Rebekah Fuller
ton, Maud s. Grier, Anna M. Justson,
Agnes Halloran, Grace D. Hargis. Bessie
Johnston, Elizabeth R. Jones, Elsie NJ.
Kirby, Matilda Kirn, Helen L. Kurtz, Mary
W. Lee. Reba S. Lloyd, Mabel w. Latimer,
Senima A. Mari, Jane T. McCafferty, Mel
lie r, Mclntre, Elizabeth S. Mcdaniel,
Margaret l. Pierson, Helen Reynolds, Har-
riet M. Walther, L. May Mcclure, Eliza
beth r. Pratt Jessie NJ. Reuss, Elsie Nc
Daniel, Elizabeth Palmer. Elizabeth D.
kates, Lena Yates, Elizabeth Carlisle,
Florence ]. Smith, Mabel Smith, Mrs. Ed
gar B. Fell, Mrs Elmer e. Benson, Miss
Sallis Field. Dorothy Welch, Nellie Sim
mons. Mary Zegler Margaret Finn, Jen-
ME Morrison, Salie Field, Mrs. Louis
Coke, Belle Crawford, Miss Moore of AL
toona, Ida Stewart. the Misses Bucher, Miss
Elizabeth D. Hopes, Miss Alice Mercer,
Gertrude Wakenhurst, Mrs. Howard Wal
lace Bessie Starr. Jennie Sooy, Mary |
Wheeler, Mary Steward Mary Dannen- |
berg. Mollie Bonner. the Misses Simmons, |
Mary Steele Edward F. Ayars, John w. |
Brady, Frank N. McCausland, Clifford V. |
Mannering, William M. Mask, William c. |
Matchett, s. Greer Patterson, j. Albert |
Pierce, Thomas II. Stirling, Clyde e. |
Thomas, Cheney T. Loomis. George F. |
McCloskey, Frank Marden, Thomas r.
Nelly, Frank C. Ross William B. Simpler,
Fred Sncock. Frank A. Sullivan, Willard
s~eetnan. Herbert Talley, Claude NJ.
Thompson, West A. Trotter, George ID.
Woodward. John E. Whitehead, Arthur A.
Pelton, Fl. DeHaven Ross, George II.
Foulk, Herbert Rice, Elwood Layfleld, DR.. |
William G. Pierce, Guy E. Wells, Louis
Coke Elmer e. Benson, Albert Foreman,
Owen Wyatt, John Neary, William b.
Pritchett, DR.. John Palmer, Harry Zeig-
ler Edgar B. Fell and many others.