Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-25


| on Thursday with the usual large gath
ering and the usual enjoyable and sue
| cessful exercises. The business meet
| ing of the association was held in the
! morning in the historic old Academy
building on the hill. This was called
| to order by President Walter J.. Palm
| er OF Midway Mass, and opened with
prayer by Rev. Charles FL. Spaulding,
| DID,, of Boston.
A few words of welcome and greet
ing by the president We're followed by
the reports of the secretary. Mrs. An
| ME Newton Johnson and the treasurer,
Miss Annie L, Tillinghast Flank H.
! Tillinghast, Mrs. Charles Barber and
Henry Dorrance were appointed the
committee on nominations and Mrs.
Fanny P. Clark, Mon. George J. Corey
and Mrs. Susie w. Mowry the necrol-
ogy committee.
Deaths During Year.
Five members of the associa ton
whose death had occurred since the
! last meeting two years ago were We'll
come H. Browning, Judge Daniel W.
| Bond, John P. Kingsley, Miss Sarah
| DIN and Mrs. Emma Spaulding Raw
cliffe. Others connected with the
school We're Edward d. Burleigh, Ma
than L. Bishop. Oliver Bowen, Alfred
Crary, Mrs. Ella Tiffany Eaton, David
=. Francis. Daniel Grover, Harry C.
Kline. DR.. Ladd. Miss Mary A. Phipps,
W. H. c. Pyncheon. Miss Susie Wit
ter and Mrs. Gertrude Burleigh Sim
mons. Rev. Dr. Spaulding spoke of
the wreath of Richmond roses repre-
| SentlnS the associations last tribute
| OF affection to Judge Bond and the
place of honor given them among the
| flora tributes. He and Mrs. Johnson
OF the library committee reported the
| books of the association placed in the
Benedict library at preselil.
| Six New Members.
! Letters of reoref and orootipc f,o,,,
twenty four absent members of the
association in all parts of the country
were read by the secretary. Six new
members have been added this year
| one hundred and forty eight have been
added since the formation of the So
ciety-with p deaths.
Officers Elected.
The report of the nominating com
mittee was given by F. H Tillinghast
and the following officers elected:
President, Lucian Burleigh of Troy,
n Y; first vice president, Winslow
B. Gallup of Chaplin; second vice
president, William ?. Barstow of South
W1ndham; secretary, Mrs. Annie New
ton Johnson of Plainfield; treasurer
Miss Annie l.. Tillinghast of Plain
f1eld board TO mana gers, Rev. Charles
H. Spaulding, DID, of Boston. Mrs
Lydia Starkweather Hall of Los Ange-
les. Cal. Hon. George ]. Corey of
Brooklyn, n. Y, and Everett E. Brown
of Pomfret Center.
Banquet in Afternoon
Adjournment was then made for
social hour and a banquet served at
l.3o p. M in the church to about 125
alumni.
Flowers and music were combined
with bountiful repast. The after
moons exercises were held on the
lawn in front of the church and opened
with selection by Bakers orchestra
1 NOr%x TI,.1
called for the report of the neurology
committee and the resolutions drawn
up by it were read by Hon g. j.
| Corey.
Dr. SpauIding POSTMASTER.
Mr.. Palmer then introduced Rev
Dr. Spaulding as POSTMASTER for the
afternoon, who spoke in his usual hap
py way of the honor thrust upon him
and of this day of rejuvenescence of
the Plainfield Academy alumni, sons
and daughters of an honored alma
mater He called upon Mrs. Mary
Bradford Gallup of Plainfield who re-
sponded with q clever original poem
| describing her Memories of Plainfield
Academy
Lucian 5urIeish Spoke
Lucian Burleigh of Troy, ~ Y, was
next called upon and made short
address full of enthusiasm for the as
ISOLATION and its threefold circle of
increasing membership above. Mrs.
F. P. Clark of Waterbury read a mes
sage from Miss Metcalf, former
teacher in the Academy and Mrs. Jen-
ME Olin Mathewson of Plainfield read
composition written by one of the
Academy pupils forty years ago. DIR.
Spaulding gave a humorous introduce
ton to the next speaker.
Judge Cross Heard.
William IT Cross of the superior
court in Providence, who paid tribute
to his former teacher, Mrs Simmons
This, he said. is unique association
in that it has no additions. It's as
sociations are all in the past. We
must make the most of the present and
keep new the old associations and
friendships. DR.. Spaulding referred to
d recent address on the Puritan home
which remined him of PlainfieId and
in the same line was the poem by Mrs
Fannie P. Clark of Waterbury, giving
the delights of farm life in charming
fashion. This was entitled Freedom
of Farm Life
Patriotism of Alumni.
Rev. Frederic S Bamford, the pas
tor of the Plainfeld church, complain
ed that he was outside the circle. but
spoke of the patriotism Of the alumni
as a most praiseworthy thing. The
Academy is more alive today than ever
in the past and holds record of great
men ana women and great enterprises.
Rev. Henry T. Arnold of Norwich
q former pastor, followed and spoke
of the good. honest work which was
an enduring founda ton, oh the cour-
age and love which made success and
unity, of the dignity and worth-the
fruit of high ideals upheld by. teach
ers who taught virtue and religion
For high ideals are of God and Plain
field academy stood high in these
May its influence never cease. Mrs
Lydia Starkweather Hall told of Los
Angeles, Cal. where she has made her
home for the past % years, and of the
phenomenal growth and progress of
this western city
F. H. Tillinghast read a letter from
J. Cleveland Cady of New Lork The
tone of the people in it makes the
tone of any place and the influence of
Plainfleld people and Academy went
deep. He gave many individual names
of people whose fine traits have been
repeated in the lives of others
Former Principal Jencks.
Hon. H. Hartweil Jencks of Lime
Rock, r. L. principal OF the Acad-
envy fifty or more years ago. gave