The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1908-06-27
ST. STANISLAUS ALUMNI
CELEBRATE REUNION.
At College On Sunday With Enjoyable Banquet.
Address Of Welcome By Brother lsidore.
Talks as the Banquet. - Officers Elected.

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The following was the programme OF
the day. Meeting at 10 a. m. for the
election of officers and transaction OF
business; banquet at noon; outing in
the afternoon; initiation of the new
members at p. m.
When the old boys arrived on the
college ground, shouts and joyous greet
ings filled the air. "Old grads who
had not. met for years extended their
hands in glad recognition and bid each
other hearty welcome. Young class
mates renewed their acquaintance with
a slap on the shoulder and a lusty
"How'dy, old boy!" After a while
groups were formed, and old times were
gone over. School boy tricks, exploits
and feats of daring were recounted
amid peals of laughter.
! After mass the meeting was called to
| order, and the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Chas. F. Engle, Senator, from N atchez,
Miss; vice president, George T. Nc
Closkey, of New Orleans; secretary,
| Brother Francis; treasurer. Cleveland
P. Huggins, of Biloxi; executive COM
mittee, Guy v. Ros, Scranton; James
D. Grant, of New Orleans; w. j.
Eroche, of Raceland; Linden F. Breaud,
of New Orleans; and James Riddle, OF
New Orleans. sProf. John Hemmei s.
| bach was elected honorary member of
| the Association.
The members then wended their way
to the banquet hall, where feast that
| would have done credit to the chef Of
Louis XIV was spread before them, to
| which they did ample justice. The
| menu follows: Entree, Vermouth, ice,
olive de Marseilles; butter from S. S.
c. dairy; ham aux fines herbes. FIRST
course: California claret, fish PES :
pagnole. cream potatoes. Second
course: ST. Julien wine, veal roast a
ll'Italienne, tomatoes frappes, mayon-
naise, petits pois maitre d'hotel. Third
course: Broiled chicken aux cham
pignons, stuffed eggs, Prince Edward
stuffed eggplants, desserts, assorted
fruits, cakes, ice cream a la Creole,
caffee noir, cigars. By unanimous ac-
clamation Brother Lambert was chosen
toastmaster, and he called on the fol
lowing for addresses: Rev. Bro. Isidore,
| address of welcome; James Riddle,
"College Days.; A. Deramee, ''The
Absent; Jos. McGinn, "The Dinner;
J. B. Delaney, "Athletics"; F. Tarut,
GA Choice Profession; F. Labarre,
rOld Times; L. Braud, "Parting ~;
Brother Stanislaus, "The Alumni.
Others that were called upon were:
George T. McCloskey, Jas. D. Grant,
Guy V. Ros, C. J. Tassin, and Rev.
Father E. Husser. The toasts were
responded to most happily.
The afternoon passed all too quickly
in sports of younger days. The boys
renewed acquaintance with once familiar
hooks and corners, while memory re-
called the pleasant years OF their col
lege life.
New members were then initiated with
appropriate ceremonies, and, after
adieus and regrets at parting were over,
the associates went their several ways,
well pleased with the pleasant day they
had spent and promising to be on hand
at the reunion next year.
Rev. Brother Isidore's address of well
come was as follows: Dear Alumni!
| Why need the word welcome be spoken
when you can read welcome in our eyes,
on our faces, in the exuberance of JOY
your presence creates, in the very spread
set before you. A stranger, an ac-
quaintance or friend welcomes guest
in words, but mother clasps her son
in her embrace, and her ecstacy OF joy
proclaims the glaa, sincere welcome.
| Although to the eldest born among
you her looks are not the same as OF
old, yet the same heart and spirit give
her life, the same spot shelters her, the
same sports cheer her campus, the same
bay bathes her feet, the same breezes
/ cool her brows, the same oaks give hel
shade, the same pines murmur repose.
the same birds sing her songs, but alas!
the same clog" does not punish her un-
ruly boys.
She is grown, but only in beauty, in
strength and in the number of her chill
! dren. Like mother, she is proud te
see her sons return home; proud to see
them grow; proud to see them strong;
proud to see them true; proud to see
them successful. She is eager to heal
about their past, anxious for their fu-
ture; she has smile for their joys, 9
tear for their woes; she exults in theil
successes; she is depressed at theil
failures. She is ever happy to gree
her boys home again. In her mind, hel
boys never grow old. Their presence
lreawakens the sweet memories of boy.
hood, careless days Of the gay old time
/ Especially is she glad on this occa-
sion when so many of her sons have
gathered to pay homage, to reaffirn
their loyalty, TO strengthen their ideals
Ito receive inspiration from one another
and to devise means to extend thei
Alma Matters influence.