The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-04
CROWD SETS NEW RECORD
Guests Are Royalty Entertained With
Auto Rides Abont Greater Keno
sha and Banquet Is Spread
This Afternoon
From Saturdays Dailv)

OSTS OF the hGuOSnd f1lgH 0CHOCl AS
ISOLATION returned to Kenosha today
TO attend the biennial reunion Of the
Association and to recall if only for
few hours the happy memories of
other days. The reunion is the great
est gathering of the boys and girls of
other days ever given by the associ-
alton and no less than three hundred
and fifty alumni of the high school at
tended the reunion. Many of them
were from the city and the surround
ing villages, but more than hundred
and fifty came from Chicago and Mil
waukee while many other cities in the
middle west were represented at the
festa1 board this afternoon.
The crowds of former students be-
gan to arrive on the trains this morn
ing and as soon as they reached the
city they we're taken for an automobile
drive in order that they might have a
chance to see Greater Kenosha. The
great bulk of the out of town guests
arrived just after noon and another
auto trip was made with twenty-five
loads of former students.
Many of the alumni who have gain
ed fame in the different walks of life
returned for the reunion and there
we're one or two in the number who
had not been back in Kenosha since
the day they graduated from the
high school. The committee in charge
had made elaborate arrangements to
welcome home the wanderers. The
school building was most deliberately
decorated.
The big auditorium in which the
banquet was served was a mass of
color. At the east end of the hall had
been put up great screen of ever
green's bearing the words, "Kenosha
High School '49-'O7.'' The tables, at
which covers were laid for almost four
hundred guests, nearly filled the great
auditorium. The tables were deco
rated with garden flowers and plants,
while the speakers rostrum was
banked with palms and flowers. A
new arrangement in the seating of
the members was observed this year
and the members of the different
classes we're kept together with the
exception of the members who sat at
the speakers table.
One of the most interesting things
in connection with the reunion was
the splendid display of pictures of the
graduates and teachers of the High
School which had been placed in the
new auditorium of the school. Here
decorating the walls were to be found
the pictures of more than seven hun
dred of former students and teachers.
Many additions had been made to the
list IN the past two years and the pic
lures attracted great deal of atten-
ton. Prominent among the new pic
lures was one of Johnson A. Jackson,
the President of the Association, who
had died since the last gathering of
the alumni The older pictures Of
fered great deal of interest for the
former students and little groups
gathered about them during the after
noon and recalled many incidents in
which the men and women shown in
the pictures had taken part during
school days. Some of the pictures of
members of the Association taken in
school life were also of great interest
Many of the members of the Asso-
citation read with interest the great
bunch of letters which had been re-
ceived by the secretary from absent
members of the Association who
found it impossible for them to attend
the reunion today. The members of
the alumni gathered at the auditorium
for the banquet at half past three
O'Clock. At the speakers table we're
seated Col. Dennis Hynes, acting
president of the Association; ] James
Cavanagh, e. c. Theirs, Mrs. George
Redeker, Miss Burke, the Rev. S. J.
Vinegar, Fillmore and Mrs. Stark
weather, Mr.. and Mrs. E. III. Hol1ister
and Arthur n. Sager. The dinner
was served by Kupfer and he was
assisted by an army of high school
boys and girls who acted as walters.
After the dinner was over the usual
program was carried out, E. c..
Theirs acting as toast master. The
following is the program arranged
AOA lAC POSl PIduuld1 EXERCISES:
Acting Presidents Address ...
Dennis J. Hynes of Chicago
Report of the Secretary and the Appoint
ment of the Nominating Committee.
Toast Master. ............ Edward G. Theirs
Greeting-The Board of Education.
Hon. James Cavanagh
IN Memorlarn :, .........,...,,.......s...
Emory L. Grant
ADDRESS .'.,...'...... ...t..t...".......
Hon. Arthur N. Sager, of ST. Louis
Song-"The Star Spang1ed Banner'......
Recitation-"The Mouse Trap. w. D. Howells
Winefred Hynes Burke, daughter of Louisa
Hynes of the Class of 1868
The Glass of 1907. ........... .............
Elizabeth j Jacob
ImPromptu Speeches ............,...,.....
Report of the Treasurer Observation-Disclosures.
Report of the Nominating Committee -.
Elecuon OF Ofhcers.......... ............-..
"Auld Lang Syne". .....,......
Among the out of town members of
the Association present at the reunion