Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-20
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY.
Third Annual Reunion oil Ai""i""'
Closes with Banquet

velcome OF a mother IOr Chiiui0 A'
bomeward hound that st. Mary.s open
81 w;de her doors last night to receive
bar Graduates and bid them take pos
session once more OF the home grounu
Of girlhood's happy day. Aud were
anv 10 question the Joyousness OF their
recnonse the most convincing answer
would be the ring OF merry voices that
echoed through the halls and the bright
and happy faces that. in revisting the
cherished haunts Of yore, said more
eloouently than words, How good 1t
if to be here ~
For days, deft and willing hands
were at work decorating the banquet
and reception hall; and when last night
fifty Of the old girls came back, 1t was
TO find new st. Mary's more beauti-
full, vet not more dear, than the simple
home Of their school days.
AT six O'Clock, Miss Matte Chilly, the
president, called the business meeting:
10 order and for an hour, topics OF
interest to the well-being of the organi-
cation or their Alma Mater, were dis
cussed. At seven O'Clock, the formal
greetings to the alumnae were rendered
in AN entertainment with the following
nroeramme, all the participants IN
which. with one or two exceptions, be-
ing children OF the alumnae or OF for
mer st. Mary's students:
PROGRAMME
O'i00''"s Miss Nellie Murphy
..T ittIa Ii1ette" Eula Pickett
piano solo Miss Sallie Patterson
GARDEN SCENE FROM "MARY STUART.
Queen Elizabeth Miss Katherine Wailer
-i''' Miss Kathryn Brill
wall, Colo Miss Alma Desio
"Nobody's Child ........ Florence Evans
PIANO Miss Theresa waters
1.-THE MINIMs INDIGNATION MEETING"
n Beall. X. Quinn, X Chilly, M, Hill, |.
CrilIv g. Lash. G. Davis, G. Adam, X
Gnrman. A. Sweeney, w. Bayne, ana Is.
Schiller.
The Informal PRAYER. Winifred Bayne
Vocal Duet Misses Waller and Brill
HBrier Rose" Miss Madaline Bryne
Piano Solo ............... ..... MISS Ella mn
At eight, the Alumnae proceeded to
the banquet hall which was respondent
with electric lights aud so beautifully
decorated that it seemed ana was a
bower of loveIiness. Here, as every
where else through the house, the color
scheme in all the decorations was blue
and white-the Alumnae and school
colors When the elegantly gowned
women. gay with the gaiety OF girl
hood. entered and took seats at the
bounteously laden tables, the scene
with its nature setting OF palms and
flowers for background, was one never
to be forgotten. Rev. Father Cutler
honored the gathering by bis presence,
and lent the charm of his ever ready
wit to the other delights OF the reunion.
At the conclusion Of the banquet ca
tered by Rammel Bros with their usual
elegance, Miss Matte Chilly, president
and toast mistress announced the fol-
lowing tOasts;
Our Guest Of Honor, Rev. Father
Cutler, Mrs Guido Kengla; Address to
the Alumnae, Rev. Father Cutler;
''The Old School and the New" Sister
Vincentia; alma Mater" Miss Sallle
Harlow; Miss Mary Harlow made this
response in the absence OF the one
named. "The Old Girls, " Miss Bridget
Greene; st. Mary's Alumnae, Miss
Bernadette Allen; Welcome to the class
of 1910, Miss Matte Crilly Response
Miss Theresa Waters.
The favors were dainty booklets
bearing on the cover a stamp OF the
min worn by the alumnae, and contain
| ing list OF the toasts and the names OF
the eighty members Of the organization:
They as we'll as the menu cards carried
out the color scheme, being blue and
white. -,
At a late hour, goodbyes we're said
and all hurried out into the storm, but
the sunshine in their hearts made them
forget the iuclemency Of the weather,
to think only of the happy evening
spent with Alma Mater and to lcok for
ward eagerly to the reunion in 1911.
The following we're present at the
banquet: Rev. Father Cutler, Miss Mat
tie Chilly, president; Mrs. James Bales,
vice. president; Ella Hill, secretary
Agnes Gilroy, historian; Rosa Chilly,
librarian; Mary Harlow, Mother M.
Bethlehem, Sister NJ. Vincentia, Angela
hewitt, Bridget Greene, Mrs. Martin
Greene, Mrs. James Quinn, Miss Mary
dewitt, Mrs. Guido Kengla, Margaret
Bashford, Mrs. Frank Quinn, Mrs.
William Quinn, Mrs. Philip Warren,
mrs. William Brown, Mrs. Frank
BeaH. Mrs. Frank Adams, Katherine
Ahern, Mrs. R. P. Torbert, Emma Nc,
Gahey, Margaret Greene, Mary Nugent,
lGertrude Crilly, Mary Sweeney, Me-
Ilanie Grammar, Josephine DAILY,
Georgiana lift, Lillian Chilly, Berna-
dette Allen, Sallie Patterson, Jennie
Grammar, Helen Corbett, Marie
Greene, Margaret DAILY, Agnes Grau'
mann. Rose Lash, Alma Desio, Esther
Kuhn, Theresa Waters. Marie Gaines,
Mary Murphy, Madeline Byrne, Kath-
crime DAILY, Maude Allensworth, Ellen
Jenkins and Kathleen Sullivan. Regrets
were received from the treasurer, Miss
lSaIlie Harlow, who was unavoidably
absent because OF sickness, also from
Misses Kate Corbett, Elizabeth Bayne
Louise and Estelle Kearney, Annie
Reattie Mrs. T. J. Echolls, Mrs. Henry
Collins, Misses Mae McWilliams, Mary
Walker, Emma Willis, Theresa sulll
van. Alice Treger, Nellie and Nettl'
lStudds. Ethel Mcdonald and Marl
Kavanaugh.