The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-17
4 HAPPp SURPRISE.
Highly Enjoyable Affair at the city
 Missions.

| Missions.
 l The college executive committee in charge of the Berkeley Mems club met with a genuine surprise on Wednesday evening when they entered the City
 Mission hall for their usual weekly ses- 1 sion. Under Paul Jones, Yale 1902, as chairman faithful service had been rendered by this committee through the 1 first term of the present college year,
 was determined by the other members
 of the club, mostly made up of young
 workingmen of the city, to give them welcome on their return.
 With George P. Holt, chairman, a
 committee of the club had arranged for 1 Wednesday evening, on the return or
 the college men from their vacation, an
 entertainment and also a banquet,
 nothing of which was known by the
 committee until they entered the hall. Valuable assistance was given in the
 affair by delegation of young ladies from the Y w. c. A., who were accom- panied by the superintendent, Mrs. AL
 ice Tregaskis.
 l The public entertainment was given
 in the large mission hall before an au- dience of the members and friends of the club, and included a duet by Miss
 Nina Williams and Miss Jamie Noy; a
 recitation by Miss Williams; piano solos
 by Miss Elizabeth Peterson; trio by
 Misses Williams, Noy and Taft, and a
 pantomime by Miss Pearl Taft
 Rev George s. Parker, of Trinity | Episcopal church, then addressed the club and ended by the presentation to | the college committee of twelve, from
 the rest of the club, of a large and elaborately frosted cake, following l which was the presentation by W. H. Baldwin, the secretary of the club. of star badges to the college committee and plain badges to each of the other members A brief statement of the his i tory of the Mems, club at the City mts- sion was then given by Rev. MT. Moss man, the general superintendent, who also showed plans of the new mission house and the use to be made of It by | the Mems club. After a flashligh tplc- ture had been taken of the members of | the club in a group all were formed Tn line and, under guidance of MT. Holt, chairman of the entertainment commit | tee, marched to the upper mission nall, where another surprise awaited the col | lege committee.
 Under direction of D. P. Candee, the janitor of the mission hall. the supper | hall had been decorated with Yale flags, large and small, and with the United States colors, with satin banners kindly | loaned by William McGrath, of the New Haven Decorating company. Tables | had been spread for all the members of the club, together with their invited guests. included among whom, as val | ued helpers in the work of the club, were Charles A. Baldwin, George M. Wallace, Charles E. Hart, Rev. pr. L c.
 Meserve, Rev. George l.. Parker, Rev. T. M, Burgess and Rev. T. B. Wilson. Between fifty and sixty were present at the supper, and after the divine
 blessing had been asked by Rev. pr. Meserve the tables were very efficiently served by committee from the Young Women's Christian association, consist | ing of Miss Lucy Sagendorf, Miss Flor ence Fowler, Miss Elizabeth Miner, Miss Natalie Pierce, Miss Jennie Whit ney and Miss Martha Rogers.
 The college executive committee pres ent consisted of Messrs Jones and Ta- ! Der, 1902; Andrews, Johnston and Fitz" gerald, 1903 Boulton, Love and March, 1904 Washburn, Holsapple, La Blanc and Howard, 1905. As fitting close to the exercises Charles A. Baldwin was reouested to act as toastmaster, ana called upon each of the college commit- tee to respond to a toast placed upon the menu against his name, and, al though this was also surprise and there was very limited time to prepare to speak, each of the committee acquit- ted himself very acceptably to the other members of the club The Yale men also sang college songs and gave the club the Yale cheer By request Rev. pr Meserve, Rev. MT. Wilson and Rev. MT Parker also addressed the club, ana regrets were sent by Messrs. Hart and Wallace, who could not be present. The evenings enjoyment was contn- ued until quite late hour, and after hearty vote of thanks to Messrs. Holt and Baldwin for their committee work on the supper, and pointing, in connec- ton with it, to the Y. W. c, A. commit tee for their assistance in the entertain ment and otherwise, and by the college committee to the club for their welcome back to work. the session of the Berke- lev Mems club came to a. close with new and strong impulse of hearty good will for all who are included among it's members