St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-13
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
Caledonia County Grammar School
Alumni Banquet.

Caledonia County Grammar Schoo
Alumni Banquet.
EIected-Addressb by william Strong
| Other Addresses from absen
Members-Pictures Presented to the
Society.
Tuesday, June S, the New England
Alumni of Caledonia Co., Grammar
School, of Vermont, held banquet
at the United States Hotel, Boston
A business meeting preceded the din.
ner, and as rotation in office is the
custom OF the society, the nominal.
ing committee of gentlemen decided
to honor the ladies by making Mrs.
Abby S. Tyler, an old teacher in the
Academy, the president and she was
unanimously elected. She will be
ably supported by seven vice presi-
dents, for FIVE of the gentlemen were
her former pupils. The seven gentle
men were as follows: Rev. E. E.
Strong, D. D., Judge Ira O. Miller,
Rev. Moses Martin, D. D., Judge
John B. Gil6llan, Judge VIM. Harri-
man, DR.. E. E. Cowles, L. L. D., and
DR.. David GOodwillie.
William Strong, the president, hale,
and hearty at rs years of age, made
an excellent opening address, inter-
spersed with so many Latin quota
tions appropriately brought in,
which he had learned when a boy at
school at the Academy, that he sur
prised all present. He studied law
with Daniel Webster, and after
wards, on account of his health, be-
came horticulturist and was form.
erly president of the Horticultural
Society in Boston. Mr.. Strong re-
ferred to the high character which
the school had borne III its early his.
tory, and to its extensive influence in
sending forth so many prominent
sons and daughters over the country,
being the sixth Of the kind incorpo-
rated in the state of Vermont,
DR.. Edward Cowles gave quite an
account of two members who had
recently passed away. DR.. Chester
Cowles and Charles Chase, a precep.
tor in the school for nearly six years.
DR.. E. E. Strong enlivened them by
many amusing anecdotes. Mr.. Aus
tin Kenerson gave very interesting
account of his recent visit to Porto
Rico. He evidently did not fall in
Iove with the island nor with the
people, and he felt that the governor
had his warm sympathies. He con.
hrmed the statements made by |
others that the mass of the people
are ignorant and not ambitious.
Miss Sarah A. Bailey, the new Sec
rotary, read letters from old Alumni
who were not able to be present.
Miss Jane E. Chamberlain, felt that
the Alumni who had walked so
in the humber paths oflife,
deserved mention as we'll as the more
brilliant and noted and have also
argely brought honor to the Acad-
my. Mrs. Mary Walton Dewev's
ancestors were connected with 1.-The
Green Mountain Patriot" the ninth
newspaper published in the state, at
'eacham, by Farley and Goss, from
'eb' l79Suntil 1907, when the press
vas taken to Montpelier, and later
The Montpelier Waterman" an
'eared. The Walton family were
NelIknown publishers in the state, i
Miss A. M. Chamberlain gave a
mort account of the seven members
whose photographs had been re-
elved and framed by the society,
ney represented six gentlemen and
me lady, the latter, Mrs. Senator
'alllnger' of New Hampshire.
b. r. Stevens, son of the well.
'nown antiquarian, Henry Stevens
II Barnet, followed his older brother
o London, England, and has acted
IS the United States Despatch Agent
or a great many years. Titles are
ommon In England and the older
'rother' although a resident nearly