The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-29
Hundreds off ormerStudents
of High School Attend
Biennial Reunion
GREAT GATHERING OF ALUMNI
Members Of the Association Meet at
the High School and 400 Sit Down
at Biennial Reunion Banquet-Re-
cali Other Days.


With the light of other days around
them hundreds of students of the old
Kenosha school came back to Kenosha
Saturday to attend the 18th biennial
reunion of the Kenosha High School
association Rambling like boys and
girls among the points of interest in
their childhood and recalling memories
Of ten, twenty, thirty and even sixty
years the former students came from
all over the country back to spend a
day in the shade of the old trees, on the
site Of the old school and to recall the
names Of the old friends and press the
Iands Of those who had been students
with them in other years.
Jt was the most pleasant reunion
ever held by the old Kenosha boys and
girls The fact that the day was OBJ
served as the golden jubilee of the
class of 1861 made it day of unusual
lhbCLC6G CduQ bulo AnCU bIuCd LII UAAuS
lug back many of the "Old Timers"
who had not attended the annual re-
anions in many years. Members of the
association began arriving in numbers
en- Friday evening and every train
Saturday morning brought great
crowds Before the call for the ban
quyt which was hold at the high school
auditorium this afternoon it was es-
tmated that there were fully 400 of
the former students of the high school
lore and more than half of this num-
her bad come from other cities. AS in
other years Chicago sent more than a
Auadred of the former Kenoshans and
very large delegation came down
Y from Milwaukee.
Almost every class graduated from
The school was represented
The returning school boys and girls
Were given "a cordial welcome by the
people OF the city and scores of auto
mobiles were in waiting to take the
members OF the association to places of
interest in the oity. The city hall
which has been completed during the
past year, was a place of great inter
est to the great mass Of visitors, but
many Of the old haunts still held their
peculiar charm. Not few of the re-
burning school children mingled pathos
with pleasure and many went to the
city cemetery where they recalled
memories about graves over, which the
grass has grown for many years.
Since the last reunion there had been
many notable deaths among the list
of the alumni of the school and chief
among those who have fallen was Col.
Dennis Hynes, formerly mayor of the
city and one of the most active mem
bers of the association. The grave of
Col Hynes out in st. James cemetery
was decorated with flowers and
many of the returning alumni went
out to the grave and paid loving
tribute of memory.
The members of the association be-
can gathering at the high school long
before noon and an informal reunion
vas held. In the main assembly room
at the school had been hung the pict-
Tres of hundreds of members of the
alumni and many of the pictures
=cre taken nearly a half century ago.
Tor this reason they proved of greater
interest.
The returning members of the alum
al were especially interested in the
boulder and tablet placed by the
Daughters of the Amen scan Revolution
to mark the site of the first free
school and the tablet was formally
presented to the association during the
reunion services in the afternoon.
In honor of the gathering the audi
forum Of the high school was beauti-
fully decorated and at the long tables
which almost completely filled the big
room covers were laid for SIS people.
The dinner was served by William
Senne. The banquet was started lust
before two O'Clock with the singing
of the old familiar "Home Again -
with G. Fillmore Starkweather of Chi
cago, one of the members of the class
3f>1861, leading the music.
Following the banquet President L.
A{. Theirs acted as toastmaster and the
following program was rendered:
Song Home Again, Home Again. ).
=. ......... Golden Wreath
G. fillmore starkweather ('61)
Chorister.
BANQUET.
csident s Address. Louis M. Theirs
ecretary's Report. 49,. F. H. Lyman
oastmaster. Arthur Dana Wheeler
Memoriam
Mrs. Harriet Wattles Saunders
and Mrs. Flora Parish Tobin.
ercises in Celebration of the Fiftieth
anniversary Of Their Graduation,
by Members of the Glass.
dress Of Welcome ............
...... Emory L. Grant, Kenosha
sponse -.