The Monitor-register., 1897-06-04

The annual reunion of the High Schoo
Alumni was held on Tuesday evening il
the public school building, the alumni
having as their guests the teachers of the
school, the members of the Board o.
Education, County Superintendent
Gwynne, Mrs. Gwynne, Mr.. ]. R. Fitzer
principal of the Grammar School, Salem
Rev. DIR. Collier, Rev. G.. G.. Seuser and q
number Of our citizens.
The entertainment provided was of an
enjoyable character. Miss Bertha Nixon,
President of the Alumni Association,
presided and welcomed the guests in a
cordial and graceful address. as follows
Kind Friends of the Alumni and of the Cause
| of Education:
In the name of our society, it is my pleas.
ant cuty to welcome you to our annual
reunion. AS year after year passes away
we look forward to the first of June with
great pleasure. AT this time we meet our
old schoolmates in way that carries us
back to our school days and the busy hours
spent in the school room.
Scattered as we are through the year. we
seem to feel that there will be a general
homecoming in this room where we have
spent so many happy hours. New classes
come in each year, and, as the work OF the
Alumni broadens. earnest workers are ready
to labor for the interest of the school. We
find on our roll call the names of thirtv-fiye
members.
A new name has been discove red during
the year, which we are glad to add to our list
OF members. He adds another to the list of
those who are to-day active and successful
in the industry of the world. In a few days
another of our number will graduate with
honor at Cornell University. "-'--
When distinction comes to one of our
number it seems to belong in measure to
all OF US, and we rejoice in his success as if it
were our own.
The proudest event of the closing year ia
the pleasure we have in welcoming Six n ew
members to our ranks. In joining our
Alumni Al Association @ we cordially give you
tinue the habits of Industry and integrity
which you have formed, and to remember
that your course in life may ref ect honor
upon the good name of our school. When
school days are over, and we go out into the
world, we are apt TO think that our course in
life affects chiefly ourselves, but let us re-
member that we owe 1t to our society, to our
teachers and to our friends to make q good
record in the coming years.
And now, In the name of the Alumni
Association, bid you welcome to our num-
bers. Again we welcome all those present,
and trust you may enjoy our program and
spend a pleasant social hour witch US.
The class of '97, just admitted to this
new fellowship, sang their class song, and
there were readings by Miss Lizzie Mem
steal and Miss Ada Polk, trio by Misses
Belle G. Crothers and Nellie Il. Rich
man and Mr.. U, G. Hillman, and Mr..
Arthur Coca, an alumnHs of Haver-
ford College, gave most interesting
description of the visit of the Haverford
cricket team, of which he was a member.
to England last year, their reception and
treatment at Rugby, Eaton and the other
famous schools, with whose cricket
teams they played and their impressions
of English life and customs in general.
There were several choruses to vary TIE
exercises.
County Superintendent Gwynne was
present and made an address, in which
he congratulated the people of Woods.
town on the excellence of their public
schools, and commended the Alumni on
the special feature. new to him, of invit-
ing others than mem bers of the associa-
tion to participate in its annual reunions.
The Alumni of the Salem High School,
now twenty-five years old, had never ad-
mitted any one to its charmed circle but
graduates of the school, and he thought
the Woodstown plan the better one, be-
cause it has a tendency to give the pat
rons of the school better conception OF
its value in training the boys and girls
for future usefulness. He pointed out
ways for the Alumni to be an aid to the
school, and suggested as one of these a
reading circle, by which the literary tone
of the community might be greatly i'm
proved, and urged them not to cease their
interest in it because their school days
had come to an end.
Several charades were given at the
close, and then social hour ensued, dur
ing which refreshments were served, and
the company dispersed with feelings of
mingled pleasure and pride in the work
of the Woodstown High School as shown
in the graduates with which it is yearly
recruiting the Alumni Association.