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

| hOmeWdTQ DOuDu 'i'"
ed wide her doors last night to receive
her graduates and bid them take pos,
session once more OF the home ground
Of girlhood's happy day. Aud were
any to question the jovousness OF their
response, the most convincing answer
would be the ring OF merry voices that
echoed through the halls and the bright
and happy faces that, in revisitlng the
cherished haunts Of yore, said more
| eloquently than words, How good it
if to be here !"
For days, deft and willing hands
we're at work decorating the banquet
and reception hall; and when last night
fifty Of the old girls came back, it was
to find new St. Mary's more oeauti-
full, yet not more dear, than the simple
home Of their school days.
At six o'clock, Miss Matte Chilly, the
president, called the business meeting
to order and for all hour, topics OF
interest to the well-being of the organl-
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
programme, all the participants in
which, with one or two exceptions, be-
ing children OF the alumnae or OF tor
mer St. Mary's students:
PROGRAMME.
'ioo's' Miss Nellie Murphy
Eulo Puck EFT
piano solo ........ Miss Sallie Patterson
GARDEN SCENE FROM 'MARf STUART.
Queen elizabeth Miss Katherine Waller
t'"'s ~oo " Miss Kathryn Brill
y;oyin Solo Miss Alma Desio
sNobody's Child ....... Florence Evans
PIANO Solo. Miss Theresa Waters
1.-THE MINIMs INDIGNATION MEETING"
n Beall X. Quinn, X. Crilly, M. Hill, I.
CrjlIy, G. Lash, G.. Davis, G. Adam, n
German, A. Sweeney, w. Bayne, ana ID.
Schiller.
The Informal Prayer. Winifred Bayne
Vocal Duet w Misses Waller anu Bril-
.sBrier Rose. Miss Madaline Bryne
Piano Solo.................. go. MISS Ella Eli
At eight, the Alumnac proceeded to
the banquet hall which was Respondent
with electric lights and so beautifully
decorated that it Sc:mrd and was
bower of loveliness. 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 ana
flowers for background, was one never
to be forgotten. Rev. Father Cutler
honored the gathering by his 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 Sallie
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 Chilly Response,
Miss Theresa Waters.
The favors were dainty booklets
bearing on the cover stamp OF the
pin 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 look 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 NJ.
Bethlehem, Sister M. 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
Beal, Mrs. Frank Adams, Katherine
Ahern, Mrs. r. P. Torbsrt, Emma Nc
Galley, Margaret Greene, Mary Nugent,
Gertrude Chilly, Mary Sweeney, Me-
LAME 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
we're received from the treasurer, Miss
Salie Harlow, who was unavoldably
absent because OF sickness, also from
Misses Kate Corbett, Elizabeth Bayne,
Louise and Estelle Kearney, Annie
Beattie, Mrs. I. J. Echolls, Mrs. Henry
Collins, Misses Mae McWilliams, Mary
Walker, Emma Willis, Theresa sulll-
van, Alice Treger, Nellie and Nettle
Studds, Ethel Mcdonald and Mary
KavaDaugh.
LUNATIC AT LARGE.