Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-05-19
Reunion of DR.. Wizards Pupils.

The following excellently prepared
sketch from the pen of former resident of
Bellows Falls will be read with deep inter-
est by many people in this section.
Editor Bellows Falls TINES:
In your issue of April 81, under Saxtons
River news, noted that There will be a
reunion at Quincy Mansion school, Wollas-
ton, Mass May Z, of all those who were
pupils of DR.. Horace Mann Willard at Yer
mont Academy with their families from
3 to 10 o'clock in the afternoon and |
said on reading it, "Well, I'll 60" Think
ing that an account of the affair will inter
est very many of your readers l take
,seaspre in writing you about it.
y Probably most of DR.. Wizards friends
and former pupils in Saxtons River and
Bellows Falls know that this Quincy Man
sion school is new school under the man.
agement of DR.. and Mrs. Horace Mann
Willard. This old Quincy Mansion is a
house admirably adapted for home school
large and comfortable, with broad piazzas
anu great rooms, attractive in all its sur
roundings. 1t is situated in Wollastor
Park and as we approached it through
long avenue of elms and beautiful lawns
| surrounded with hedges and shrubbery, w
exclaimed over the natural beauty OF thu
place.
AS our party of seven entered tn
spacious hall we were greeted by DIR. vii
lard, q should like to say MIR. Willard, a
it yet seems more natural to me, the DR.
being a degree conferred by Brown Uni
versity since he lett Vermont Academy
| asked him if he remembered me, he said
II ought to, your face is very familiar.
but he could not call me by name. N
wonder! IA years OF absence, 70 pound
additional avoirdupois, eye glasses, etc.
felt as though the ''chapging wheel of time
had decked me out for masquerade party
The guests were just going up onto tn
roof of the house to get the sunset view, a
we entered, so we went with them first o
ALL [ had no idea what beautiful plac'
It was until l reached the roof. Their
surrounded by several acres of attractive
grounds was the panorama of hills, towns
cities and within stones throw OF tn
house Quincy bay for boating and bathing
We could look out to the outer harbor ant
while we stood there we saw an ocea'
steamer coming in and an excursion boat
probably for Nantasket, going out. W.
could see Winthrop, Nantasket, Downer'
Landing, South Boston and many othe
places, even the state house dome six mile
away. Descending to the second floor W
were ushered into one of the large from
rooms for the removal of wraps. This wa
room occupied by two of the pupils, NJ
doubt, and such lovely room not only a
to the inside furnishings but the outsid
surroundings-at one side Quincy bay, a
tbe other the elms and broad lawns, an
such large room. You could put abou
three ordinary Students rooms INTO 1t
surely we never had front room IN
mansion house for our study. With sue
environment should not the students aim
, and purposes be advanced in some degre
!, nearer perfection But l digress! w
now descended to the parlors where "
were greeted by Mrs. Willard. She re
membered us, calling us by our unmarrie
name and it sounded good-we almost fe
IA years younger.
Perhaps you will be interested to kno'
who went cut with US on the tram froi
Boston; beside the many that we foun
t there there was DR. Ellery, the prlncipa
, elect OF Vermont Academy; he had com
out from Worcester 1or the Occasion y
courteous invitation of DE-. Willard n
: doubt DR.. Ellery appreciated this gracef'
n act on DIR. Wizards part enabling him
t meet so many of the former pupils OF
A. and linking him emphatically with tn
mast as he is to be linked to the future {
Y. A. DIR. Ellery seemed to be In tt
n best of spirits and enthusiasm for his pro
nective work at Vermont Academy. Ihel
!, was Miss Emma Parker now teaching
wellesley college, and with her Nh
It Chapin of Saxtons River, pupil at Welie
r LEV. and her sister, Mary Chaplin Bowen
\ Natick with her husband, and myself an
/. husband. :,
a I cannot, | fear, remember the names
is all whom we met, for should think the
n must have been IS in the hall and parlo
q while we were there and many had goI
before we arrived, they told US. Most
e the names will be as familiar to you as
M. there was H. Carleton Slack, former
:, of Springfield, VT, who has been studyII
IL music abroad several years. you know
soIos dnrino the evening which