The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-25
Executive Board Of kenosha High
School Association Plans for
the Bi. enniaI Reunion
LARGE ATTENDANCE ASSURED
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford Selected to De.
liver Memorial Address at Banquet
Plan Many New Features
for the Gathering

The executive committee of the Ke-
nosha High School Association, com
posed Of President G. E. Dewey, Vice
President Mrs. w. P. Robinson, Secre
tary Walter Burke and Treasurer L.
M. Theirs, has held it's first meeting
and the arrangements for the biennial
reunion Of the association are now
well under way and within short
time a letter will be sent to every
member Of the association urging them
to attend the reunion which is to be
held ON June Goth. The date set is in
keeping with the custom of the organi-
cation established years ago, it being
the last Saturday in June.
The reunion this year will be much
the same as those held in other years,
but the committee in charge promises
to make it the most interesting of the
long list of gatherings held by the as
ISOLATION. The program for the day
has not as yet been fully arranged, but
the reception to the members will
open with an automobile ride about the
city in which every automobile in the
city is expected to take part and after
this is over there will be a short re-
ception at the high school auditorium.
The hour for the banquet has been set
at one O'Clock in the afternoon. This
is decided change from former years,
but it is made with the view Of having
the entire program of toasts completed
before the visiting members are forced
to leave to take trains for Chicago and
Milwaukee. The program for the
toasts has been arranged in part and
while it will not be long one many
Of the most distinguished alumni OF
the school will be asked to make ten
minute responses.
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford of Menomi
nee, one Of the best known Of the
former teachers of the schools, has
been asked to give the annual mem.
orial, The memorial this year will be
one of great interest as since the last
gathering of the old school boys and
girls many of the we'll known members
of the association have died Among
the long list Of members who have pass
, ed on are Attorney Charles Quarles
and Attorney Howard Van Wyck OF
Milwaukee; Samuel Reynolds, Augusta
Gillett, Of Kenosha; Mrs. Mary Eel
lows, of Chicago; Mrs. Carrie Fisk
Johnson of Racine; Wainwright Lance
of Denver; Rebecca Southworth Bacon
Of Chicago; W. A. L. Gibbon of Oak
Park; Milton Pennoyer, of Kenosha
and host of other former students
who occupied high place in the ranks
of the association.
The members of the Chicago Kenoshs
Club have already started the work oil
preparing for the reunion and it i
said that at least two hundred former
Kenoshans will come from Chicago fol
the banquet. A meeting of the Chica.
go organization will be held early il
April to make arrangements for the
trip to Kenosha.
Secretary Burke has already received
a number Of letters asking in regard
to the reunion and carrying the assur
ance that the members will be out il
force to attend.
/ Committees have been named to hav,
charge of the various departments O.
work in connection with the reunion
! and these committees will be announced
in a communication to the members O:
the association within a. few days.