Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-11
xps JANET HARRIS GAINES PRESIDENT ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION


Carolina; Mrs Poteat, of North Cardinal;
Mrs Normer Morton. Miss Daisy Todd
Miss Bessie Scott. Miss Rosa Gary MISS
I.ucv ThornhiH Mrs Kate Ryland. MISS
Mary Anderson: Mrs. Harvey Seward, OF
petersburg: Miss Jennie Gates, Mrs. ,.
Y Atkins: Miss Alice Taylor. Chase CITY;
Miss Daisy HutsOn. Miss Katie Hay
wood Miss Mary Franklin, Miss Alta
Cooper. Miss Kate Foster, Miss irene
Foster. Mrs. Willie Matthews, Mrs Nhll-
field: Mrs. X. c. Warren, OF Forts
mouth; Miss Corneile Willingham; MIS-
DeNott. of LynchbuTg; Miss ORE Hatch-
or Miss Elizabeth Hatcher, Miss Edith
Hatcher. Mrs. Gwathmey, Miss sue
Brooking, Miss Lellie Briggs, Miss Will
son shelton, Miss French shelton, Mrs.
l. c. Tucker. Mrs. G. II. Davis; Miss
Annie Goodloe, of Gordonsvillc Mrs. A
q. Shelburn. Misses Garlick, Laura
Bacon. Mary Goode; Minnie Dyson, OF
Hanover; Lucy Moseley, Florence Myers
Jane Stanard, Irene Pension, Marian
Ryland. Julia Ryand, Mary Hancock
Kate Mcmillan. Nellie Burton, Maggie
Williams. Ellen Scott. Minnie Lifesey.
Edna Barnes, jamie Thompson. Miriam
Milhisor Mamie Wright Carrie Goodloe,
Emily Raab, Iaila Pollard, Lena Rudd.
CLYDE Swift Emma Harris, Mabel Fitz-
patrick Gertie Clash. Mary Allen, Madge
Bagley, Mamie Mcmillan, Belle Ander-
son, and Caroline Marsh, of the class or
1899
PRESIDENTS WORDS OF GREETING.
After the elegant bill of fare had beea
discussed, Mrs. Janet Harris Gaines, the
president Of the Alumnae Association
who acted as toast-mistress. extended
cordial greeting TO the company. she
said:
Your Alma Mater sends loving greet
ings to-day 10 all the children that nave
clustered around her knee and received
her words of instrucuon-to all OF her
children, from those whose grandchildren
we will soon be welcoming among our
number TO the sweet girl graduate,
caressing so affectionately the newly-ac-
quired sheepskin adorned with the seal
and blue ribbon.
not unlike those good, old Christmas
family reunions. We who look back with
Increasing pleasure upon the quiet school
girl days, having LETT at home our bur-
dens and our babies, are girls again, and
Join hands with YOU. who are just issuing
From the portals - lay at the feet OF our
honorod mother our common love. We
find her not In sorrow nor misfortune, but
in the hour of her triumph. Crowned
with honor and success, she calls on us
for renewed zeal and increased activity.
The social feature OF this occasion Is, OF
course, not to be overlooked or under
W.
many of the rough places in our lives ana
do much toward fitting us for the serious
side Of life. But the pleasure OF spending
an hour here together is, after all. only
an incident of the present occasion. 1t
Is our love for Alma Mater-an earnest
desire TO promote her interests ana en-
large her opportunities for usefulness That
Is uppermost in the minds or us all, ana
j trust that in the responses which we are
presently 20 enjoy something VIII be salu
which will give us "a fuller realization or
the debt of gratitude which we owe 10
our Alma Mater and which VIII STIR our
hearts TO do what we can 20 perpetuate
her future success. But / must not FUR
Their encroach upon the time of those who
have been specially designated TO speak,
each OF whom | am sure will bring 10 us
message worthy of the occasion. Every
child, / suppose experiences a little sur
prise when he learns for the first time
that his great. big father was once a
little boy like himself. Most OF our IN
stitutions. like our great men, started
from small beginnings and just as in the
biographies of the worlds heroes the
most interesting chapter IS often That
which deals with the childhood. with the
lttle-hatchet stories and the like so the
early histories Of our institutions are tull
of charm for US. We had hoped TO have
with us to-day Mrs. BETTE Leftwich Gray,
who was here nearly forty years ago,
when Alma Mater was indeed in her girl
hood She was prevented from coming,
but has sent her papcr. which will be read
by Miss Mary Carter Anderson
Miss Maria Childress responded to the
toast "Thc Woes OF a Youthful Peda-
gogue," and doing so made one Of the
brightest and most entertaining speeches
delivered at the luncheon.
SOUTHERN GIRLS AT NORTHERN
COLLEGES.
Miss Grace Warren Landrum responded
20 the toast Southern Girls al Northern
Colleges" In bright, happy speech She
said:
1t gives me greater pleasure than can
express TO DO with you all to-day, For
the first time since my graduation. in 1873.
/ now see large number OF my class
mates together. the girls of even carrier
years, and, surely not least interesting.
these younger daughters OF our Alma
Mater. You are all dear 10 me Tor her
sake She was such faithful mother TO
me that have never forgotten her or hcr
children In the subsequent years OF col
lego life.
/ am 20 tell you to-day l believe. OF
what / did as your representative at a
northern college. This Is such faVorite
theme Of mine that fear Should never
stop. when once started. SO j will change
the point OF view and tell you what fell
low-students at Radford College did for
me.
Their Kindness TO me and interest in
me ! could hardly exaggerate. Unless one
has been north she can hardly conceive
The kindly curiosity Qor l have found IL
always kindly that northern girl feels