The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-15
BOYS AND GIRLS AGAIN.
The High School Alumni Association
Meeting

such. They dropped everything IN
hand and fastened to this sacred spot
to renew the memories of childhood.
All this relates to the fourth biennial
meeting of the Kenosha High School
Alumni association which met at the
High school building at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. Great preparations had
been made for the event. Invitations
were sent to the four quarters of the
earth to all who have had sufficient
interest in their old alma mater to join
the alumni association, to come to-
gether and enjoy one more day as it
used to be enjoyed in the days gone by.
The event to take place this afternoon
was advertised as an old time Friday
afternoon when the pupils would be
expected to speak pieces, read essays
written out of any old encyclopedia,
and sing such songs as they heard
almost anywhere in the gamut from
the street to the stage.
This advertised program was carried
out. The gray hairs of those who
we're men and women yesterday turned
now to golden and faxen curls, with
here and there one with raven locks.
There was genuine renewal of youth
all through the building as the 80 or
200 people thronged it.
The crowd came together at /
o'clock and spent an hour in shaking
hands and getting acquainted all over
again and bringing about the big
transformation scene described. The
complete transformation was brought
about through that apparently simp-
lest of all processes. the shaking OF
hands and the looking into each others
eyes. Some may be so unkind as to
suggest that it was in the eyes of those
who looked, from their membership in
the organization, that all the transfer
nation took place. The point is not
worth the arguing. 1t is sufficient to
say it was there.
The program opened with Principal
James E. Petit, of Chicago, at the
teachers desk. He directed the
school to sing " Home Again" and it
did, with right good will. Then he
called upon W. A. L. Gibbon to get up
and speak his little piece about " Our
Social Relations, or the Fruits of
Friendship" All the rest Of the pro-
gram was carried out as follows:
Essav-The Lords Prayer .............. 80.
.Rebecca Southworth Bacon
Essay Chronicles OF 1866 Eta Clapp Hastings
Vocal solo -. $500. ......... VIM. McDermott
Essay ........ .......... Julia Stebb1ns
Defamation Nothing to Wear ........
Essay-Uses and Abuses Sue Veazie Wakeman
Essay-Spring ......... Mary George Robinson
Vocal soIo-Bendemeer's Stream. ..............
Bessie Robinson
Declamation-'sYou Would Scarce Except One
of My Age. &C. Fillmore Starkweather
Vocal Solo ................ Harry Baldwin
Essay-Chronicles of 1897 John Hegeman
Defamation Tribute to Webster. -
49,. Charles P Parish
Essay-Hope . Harriet Wattles Saunders
Essay-Visions. ........... Lille Burgess Lewis
Defamation Gentleman" . :.
49,. William English
ssay-"Looking Backward" ........ ..........
.Rebecca Jones Apologize
Closing Song OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. America
Among those from out of the city
present were: Mrs. Rebecca Jones
Applegate, of Tacoma, Wash; Mrs.
Fannie Petit Wells, of Denver; Mrs.
MARITIME Gonzalez, OF Grand Rapids,
Mich; George Fl. Francis, of Bradley,
H.; Mrs. Amelia Merrill Reeder, Of
Richmond, H.; Mrs. S. G. Johnson, of
Racine; Charles 81. Hackley, of Mus
kegon, Mich; Mrs. d. F. Coe, Elkhart,
Ind; Mrs Francis Ehle Lake. Winona,
Mimi; Mrs. Madeira Dodge Cannon,
Ripon; L. w Briggs, Oshkosh; Mrs.
Anna Hyde Merrill, of Spring Valley,
H.; Mrs. Harriet Northway Burgess,
Salem; Miss NJ. Luela Dodge, Eau
Claire;. j. V. Quarles, Milwaukee; Miss
Jane E. Dale. Winnetka, Ill; Mrs.
Susan Veazie Wakeman and Mrs. Ella
Veazie Fitch, Oak Park, ILL.,;
John g. McMynn, Madison; Glenn
Jones, Hastings, Ia; and Mrs. Anna
Jordan Cheetham, Julius G.. Mcintyre,
Mrs. Libbie Tymeson Woodbury., j. 81.
Windsor, G. G. Curtice, George w.
Warvelle, Mrs. Ida Stryker Downs,
Misses Margaret Fl. and Joanna S.
Peters, Messrs. and Mesdames j. E.
Petit, II. B. Briggs; Mesdames Flora
Parish Tobin, Lee Fellows, Anna Ely
Nelson, Celia English Bailey, Charles
Deming, Frances Willis Jones, Sarah
Bayliss Radcliffe, Alice English Ryan,
Rosa Reed SHIRLEY; Misses Ella Stan
ton, Emma Atkinson, Jennie Bayliss;
Messrs. D. j. Hynes, James Hannah,
Charles Parish, Walter Stebbins and
Fred Tracy, all of Chicago.