Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-06-15
39rd. ANNUAL REUNION.
OF the Alumni Association Of Will
lamette University.
Grafton, Banquet, Toasts and Annihilatior
Of the Late Enemy on Portland
Peninsula.

Among the minor festivities Of com
mencernent week has been the annual
reunion Of the Willamette Alumni As
sociation.
The election Of officers resulted in the
reelection Of the old officers as follows /:
President, J.L. Carter '6S ;frst vice-presi-
dent, f.. f.. Mckinney 20; second vice
president, Rev. Belknap, 80; third
vice. president, Rev. Hoberg '9S; fourth
vice president, Myrtle Marsh '96; sec
retary c. J. Atwood '97; treasurer, l..
r. Reynold '95
Mrs. Ida NJ. Babcock '9S and A.. n.
Moores '7S were named as advisory
members Of the executive committee.
G. j. Atwood was named a representa-
tive member of the board Of trustees OF
the university, term 10 expire in 1902.
The exercises and refreshments suita-
BILE to the occasion, which constitute the
real reunion, were dished up in the
lecture room Of the First NJ. T.. church,
and that large space was well filed by a
o ly lot Of persons who have been gradu-
ated at Salem the past fifty years.
At about 8 o'clock President Carter
called the assemblage TO order and in
troduced the orator Chas. A. Johns, who
captured a wife at Dallas and gets his
subsistence at Baker City. He de-
livered an eloquent and scholarly ora
Hon that was frequently applauded. Mr..
Johns possesses the literary taste that
seems TO be one Of the traditions Of an
earlier generation, and no better alumni
address was ever heard. Two years ago
b. +. Irvine had raised the tonsure of
his more conservative hearers by his
eloquent plea for independence for the
Cubans. This was now supplemented
by another son Of thunder who dwelt
on the loss OF the Maine
and the summary vengeance of the
at Manila, all the result of
Spain having no public school system
by colleges and alumni
societies where freedom il taught and
liberty eulogized.
Miss Lillian Robin now sang The
Heart Of Love" and then resolutions
drawn up by specially appointed com
mittees were read in memory OF Mrs.
Anna X. Robb-Parrish, OF Canyon City
aud Hal G.. Elibbard. Letters were read
from absent members who enclosed
dollar, and it is n noticeable fact in any
line Of business that a person who en-
Hoses a dollar always writes an accept
able letter in good literary style.
President Hawley was invited TO speak
n memory or Hal IIibbard (who would
nave graduated this June had he lived
md not gone TO Manila and on whom
vas conferred the degree OF b. A. Haw.
ey's remarks displayed depth of feel
ny that threw hush Of awe over the
ssemblage. II was extremely appro- |
,riate and creditable 10 Mr.. Hawley, |
nd he was so moved and so moved his
earers that he was not called upon
0 speak although he was on the pro-
ram.
The irrepressible and impercepti BILE
enius of the class of 20 was
Ow denominated toast master and did
early all the toasting and roasting
imself until z. II Darcy and F. b.
ryne called his attention TO the fact.
ut Moores was not to be stopped. He
as bubbling over with fun
nj humor az the expense of pretty
luch all the decent people assembled.
e seemed 10 be- in his element and no.
)dy could pull him off. II would have
ken a strong man and he would have
nd 10 put him out OF the building and
, one seemed willing to resort 10 harsh I
easures. lie introduced Mayor Bishop I
the Reform running mate of Jones q
Toledo, Pingree Of Michigan, and ,
,nnoyer Of Portland, who had re- I
iced the police force in city OF II 900
two men and the electric lights To n
,thing, :
Bishop dried him upfor few minutes /,
telling him he was glad he was be- a
ming interested in reform as ne s.
loores) had not paid his taxes for o
rec years. Moores then introduced b
dge r. A. Moore as the man from {
aine, state whore the soil was 10 n
or YOU could not raise an umbrella. p
pores is from Missouri and not from n
egon as is generally supposed, or n
,ore would have told him there was u
trouble in raising that crop here. %
dge Moore was very brief as was the n
,yor, in order to give as much Of the Al
ne IA the toastmaster as possible until HI
~ struck Belknap of Turner the cl
islator-lawyer-preacher, horrible h,
ample OF composite lung power worse Il
ck ON his encyclopedias appendix than nj
salaried terminal oi the Oregon CITY |