Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-06-22

The alumni and alumnae of the
Plymouth high school held their annual
reunion and banquet at the Washing.
ton building Wednesday evening, where
an excellent program was carried out.
There were present about $50 alumni
and citizens. The menu consisted of
the following:
Cold Sliced Tongue
Sliced Sugar Ham Chicken Salad
Saratoga Chips
French Split Rolls (BUttered)
Lemon Jell Pickles and Olives Salted Peanuts
Raspberry Ice
Coffee
Dark Fruit Cake
Plain Vanilla Cream
Strawberries
White Cake, White Icing
Gold Cake. Chocolate Icing
MacarOOns
Fruits
The program arranged and carried
out was ss follows:
Doun,a ouartotta a Spring Song, s,......- PiDsuti
b Lullaby ............ Barnby
Miss Helen A. Disher. '95; Mrs. Bertha
Mcdonald. .'ss; Miss Mary X. HOham. 95;
Mrs. Daisy b. Schlt. "a; Fred W. Hill,
70; James o. Parks. Ol; Frank X.
Brooke 80; Emory f. Hess. go.
RaSnonSa .s1ha EirSt cf a Nohla | Iua1'
Miss Ida C. Klinger. 70.
SolO-"The Flight OF Ages '...B Bevan
Fred w. Hill. '79
Reading Selected. =. .... Miss Grace Durr, 81
Solo Selected. Mrs. Pearl Woodward wilding's7
Address-"A Dream of 10th Century Education
Bertrand +. Nussbaum. 49,
Duet-"Sing. Smile, Sumber' .Gounod
Mrs. Bertha Mcdonald. 'ss; Mrs. Maud
HOughtOn. SO.
Poem" Bygone Days" Chas p Drummond. '79
Response THE Latest of Noble Line"
Ralph X. Jacoby. 1900.
Glass Song-"We Are Waiting" BY the Alumni
Supt Chase made short talk at the
close of the regular exercises.
Miss Ida G.. Ringers response to the
toast, 1.-THE First of a Noble Line" is
full of many historical "reminiscences
which all will appreciate. She reluc-
tantly consented to having iepu5lished.
1t is as follows:
Mr.. President, Members of the Alumni,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
To my lot has fallen the pleasant
duty of responding, on behalf of the
class of '76, to the toast, 1.-The First of
Our Noble Band" Though my words
of greeting are not many, trust you
may feel them to be sincere. am very
glad to see you ali here, and only regret
that 80 many of my old time friends
cannot be here with u.s.
Some are born great, some achieve
greatness and some have greatness
thrust upon them. When our worthy
president first informed me that | was
selected to respond to this toast, he
said that departure from our former
method of responding by classes was
contemplated and that the design was
TO present an interesting program. The
thought instantly came to me that q
talk on ancient history was hardly one
that could be considered very enliven-
ing, "reminiscences being rarely interest
ing save TO the people most nearlv con-
cerned. However, took it for granted
that the committee knew what they
were doing when they selected the sub
ject, and the speaker and after vainly
endeavOring to have my clsssmate, MIR.
Pershing, the orator Of our class, sub
stituted as the speaker, accepted the
greatness thrust upon me; thought the
matter over and concluded to tell you
how it came about that to us was given
the honor to be the first of this noble
band.
When our honored friend, Mr.. Chase,
first came to Plymouth to cast his lot
with US and take charge Of the schools
of our little town, he found assem- bled
in the large upper room of the old
wooden building, known as the Semin-
ary, lot Of boys and girls of various
ages and sizes, full of life and capable
of doing anything required of them,
but he found no high school. Being q
young man, full of ambition and energy,
anxious to do credit to himself and the
town, he sized up the situation, saw
that it was only matter Of time until
order could be brought out of chaos,
and at once began to organize. He saw
that he had before him the material to
make school second to none, although
at first inclined to doubt that any good
could come out of HOosierdom.
Well do l remember that first day of
school. We had gathered in our old
places at the ringing of the bel, anxious
to know what the new teacher was like,
eagerly Discussing the probabilities of
the curtailment of our old time privil-
eyes for you must know that his pred
ecessor was an easy-gOing gentleman,
blind in one eye and easily imposed
upon. Even we younger pupils knew
the advantage of getting on the blind
side.
One of the then members of the
school board brought him into the
room and introduced him to the assem-
bled pupils. can see him yet as he
was then-sn old looking, young man,
With the side w hiskers depicted I'm the