The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-18

Recording Secretary-Miss Mary Grace
Weeks.
Directors-Mrs. Jennie G Hayes, VIM.
A Merrill. William Aver, Miss Grace l..
Dolley. Miss Nellie L. Cloudman.
Letters were read from past teachers.
pleasant feature Of the meeting was
the reading of the report of the Boston
branch transmitting from the Massachu-
sets alumni a gift of cast of the Winged
Victory. The plaster cast of the famous
piece of statuary is three feet in height
and stands on PEDESTAL two feet high.
The Massachuse is alumni sent it as the
first of a collection of works of art for the
adornment of the new dormitory. The re-
ports showed that the alumni association
is in four1shing condition.
THE DINNER.
The alumni dinner was served in the
vestry of the Methodist church. The
spacious room was we'll filed with a
cheerful company, who were seated at
heavily laden tables where bevy of
white capped maidens attended to their
wants. Those who sat at the tables in
cluded Principal W. j. Corthell, Governor
Powers, Mrs. Powers, Hon. Frederick
Robie Mrs. Robbie, State Superintendent
W. W. Stetson, Mrs. w. W. Stetson. Geo.
NJ. Warren, Viola NJ. White, John A.
Hinkley, Mrs John A. Hinkley, w. E.
Russell, Mrs. W. e. Russell, Gertrude L.
Stone, Il. Cousens, Mrs. H. Cousens, M.
Grace Pickett, G. W. Fem, Willard W.
Woodman, John A. Waterman. Mrs. John
A. Waterman, Mrs. Isaac Watson Dyer,
Mrs. Cashmere, William Cashmere,
Charles Z. Hinkley, NJ. S. Gage,
Katherine holiday, W. E. Aver, Mrs. w.
E. Aver, Mrs.. Lizzie I. bennett. Nellie
Elizabeth Marston. Mr.. Hiram Hawkes.
Miss Alden, MIR. and Mrs. E. W. Guptill,
Mr.. and Mrs F. P. johnson, Mrs, Seavy,
John F. Sucking, Mary Grace Weeks,
Frank l. Whitney, George r. Spinney,
Josephine A. Simonton, Mrs. Fred e.
Smith. Evangeline Chadbourne, o. F.
Chadbourne, Frank L. Douglass, '96,
Lizzie e. Boothby, Laura D. Boothby,
9s, Alice M. Jameson, 'e6. Bird Albee,
'96, Efie NJ. Harmon, 'e6, Florence S.
Loring, '96, Maude l. Bergman, '95,
Fannie e. Milliken, '92. Clarence A.
Du1gin, '95, VIM. Il. Dow, 'a5. Evelina
D. Mcclellan, '93, Carrie NJ. Bassick, '94,
Lillian A. Ridley, '95, Georgia N. Du-
rant, '95. Della E. Hill, '93, Howard A.
Sanborn, Elizabeth M. Colley. Susan Way
Merritt, Mrs. Gertrude NJ Lermond, L.
). Lermond, Nellie L. Cloudman, Alice
6. Priest, Fannie I. Soule. Grace Walker,
Ella F. johnson, Helen Burnell, Deering,
Wayne G. Lowell, Irving r. Hawkes.,
Alice G. Trafton, Clara E. Burroughs,
Louise R. Trip, Agnes Sleeth Fair
brother, Ida Gertrude Morrill,, Grace G.,
Davis. 1
Mr.. E. W. Guptill presided at the after
dinner exercises. He expressed gratidca-
tion at the large number present, spoke
OF the Gorham Normal schools successful
career of nearly twenty years and said the
state made no mistake in establishing this
third normal school. Mr.. Guptill then
introduced Gov. Powers, who app opri
aiely alluded to the influence exerted by
Mr.. Corthell upon Hon. Bartlett Trip,
now minister to Austria, and himself,
when Mr.. Corthell induced them to go to
college. Governor Powers spoke of the
prominence of Maine in the councils of
the nation, 10 state having a better
representation there Many of the promi-
nent representatives of other states are
natives of Maine. The Governor referred
briefly to the high character Of Maine
oh Qo hon, nIo ~ tbo Il
said that at this crisis, whatever may
have been the differences of opinion as to
the policy to be pursued those differences
have now been forgotten. 1t Is my
deliberate judgment, he said, that the
people of this state in common with
that the war must go on until the last
| vestige of Spanish misrule has been re-
| moved from the western hemisphere. We
| are engaged in this conflict with Spanish
despotism and chronic misrule for the
| benefit of mankind and its result is GER
| tain In securing this result, Maine must
| and will do her part faithfully and well.
Governor Powers's illusions to the war
were loudly applauded, and then Mr..
Guptil called on State Superintendent
Stetson to speak on education. Mr.. Stet-
son said it had been his uncomfortable
duty to say some disagreeable things
about the schools of Maine. He had done
SO for two reasons. First because they
were true and, second, because Maine is
big enough to hear the truth. 1t IS we'll
for us to know that the machinery of the
past cannot do the work of the present,
We must meet the questions Of the day in
which we live and meet them in our own
way. Get all the aid, comfort and wis
dom the past has to give but realize that
you are facing the rising and not the set
ting sim.
Mr.. Stetson. then spoke of the Gorha m
Normal school and said that it was some.
thing to graduate from a school at the
head of which is man capable of train.
ing governors for the greatest state in the
world, man W no easily stands first
among the educators in the common