The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-13
TAB
LET UNVEILED
BY Alumni of Goddard Seminary
This Forenoon
IN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
Exercises Were Attended By Large Num-
ber of People-Annual Meeting of
the School Alumni Association
Was Also Held.

the unyelling OF a splendid memoria
tablet in bronze in memory of William
Rollln Shipman, long presiden
of Goddard seminary benefactor of tn
school and one in whose mind was prob
ably conceived the idea of establishin,
a secondary school by the Universalis
convention of Vermont Besides the stu
dent body a large number of alumni
were present at the exercises, which i'm
mediately followed the annual business
meeting of the alumni association in thu
seminary parlors at l0;30 o'clock.
President Ernest j. Hewitt of Soutl
Royalton, Goddard 'g3, acted as chair
man throughout the program, and h,
introduced Mrs. r. M Chase, IA, ot
Bethel, who sang solo. Rev. STANLEY
G. Spear, '93, of Dexter, Me, Offered
prayer and Miss Bessie +. Spear oi
Barre, '03, followed with piano solo.
The unveiling of the bronze memorial
which hangs on the east wall of the
chapel, then followed, President Hewitt
which concealed the tablet from view
The ceremony which accompanied the
unyeiling was carried out as follows;
! President of alumni association-'D Dear
/ Friendsi 1t is a part of our eommem-
Grafton service to-day to dedicate this
memorial tablet, which faith and love
have placed in this hall in memory Of
him whose life was bound so closely TO
the life Of this institution. To this end
let us pray
% God, our heavenly Father, we thank
far "a be- Il
us in other days, especially for the life,
whose memory we now honor. We thank
Thee for his faith and courage and in
tegrity of soul; his life OF service and
Of love. Bless us in our loving thought
OF him as we gather here to-day"
people-"We thank Thee, o Lord"
pres.--"We bless, consecrate, and dedi-
cate this tablet, in the name of that rev.
erent love which has placed it here, in
the name Of the virtues and graces OF
life which il commentaries; in the name
of Christian faith and hope
People--"In the name of all that Is
pure and true, we conseerate this, our
offering OF love-
Pres, Tn loving memory OF William
Rollin Shipman, friend, counselor, leader,
present this memorial to Goddard semi
nary, which was so dear to him and hon
ored by his patient, genial and loving
service"
People-"ln the spirit of love we pre-
sent this our memorial gift
President OF board of trustees tCharles
H. Darling, LII, D., Burlington -"In
behalf Of this institution / am pleased to
accept this gift in honor of William Rol-
lin Shpman, the late president of this
seminary, and trust that this memorial
will serve to perpetuate in this school
the Goddard spirit, which our honored
friend possessed in such fullness
People Accept, God, our memorial
Offering
Pres. of alumni-"Unite us, most mer.
cifu Father. to all the good in earth and
Heaven
People-"That all life in this world
may be filed with joy and peace"
Pres Blessed be the name of the
Lord"
People -"From henceforth even for
ever"
The alumni Grafton by A. w. DeGoosh, !
80. of Boston, followed the dedicatory |
services. Mr. DeGooeh disclaimed any
idea of giving an Grafton in the accepted
meaning of the term, but proposed rather !
to delve into the history OF the man |
whose memory the tablet was intended |
TO honor. The speakers paper was filed |
with valuable historical data concerning |
the establishment of Goddard seminary |
and of the part which William Rolin
= IN ip nj
il on such firm foundation. Mr.. De-
Goosh gave "reminiscences of the expires
dent's early life in his native town of
and of the years which marked
his attendance at Middlebury college.
According to his researches. Mr.. Ship
nan taught at the o.l South Woodstock
lcademy soon after his graduation from
IL was while thus engaged
hat he first seems to have foreseen that
he days of academies and grammar
schools of those days were numbered.
This for the reason that the sole means
# support upon which these schools re-
led was tuitions. He believed that
within few years the only survivors
If the 100 secondary schools of this kind
would be the institutions that had Sc
ured substantial endowments. The wis
lom of his contention has been well sus-
aimed by the latter-day school history
# Vermont.
In order to emphasize the difficulties
which confronted Mr., Shipman's task,
he speaker went back to the earlier set
ing of Vermont school history and
'rought his audience up through the
ears to the time when the Universalist
of the state. in session at
lontpelier, voted to establish the school. I
he formation OF the school and the
ecision to locate it at Barre, the history
+ the institution and its future pros {
ects formed the concluding part of Mr.. I
)eGoosh's excellent address. a
Just prior to the close of the exer- I
ises, Miss Blanche ]. Tihen, 70. of g
iarre delivered the alumni poem. Miss I
'ilden's interesting contribution was a c
leasingly metered review of Goddard's a
istory and in several of the stanzas c
he touchiagly referred to the unwilling c
f the tablet to ex-President Shipman. n
lrs. r. NJ. Chase was on the program b
Or second solo, and she was obliged
D respond to an encore. She was accom-