The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-22
COLONIAL DANES
HELD ANNUAL
MEETING
Vermont Society Here Wednes-
day for Annual Gathering
OFFICERS AND MANAGERS
Society Votes to Assist In Erection
of Memorial to Old First
Church.

The annual meeting of the Ma
tional Society of the Colonial Danes
of America in the state of Vermont
was held at the Mount Anthony
Country club Wednesday, May Fl,
with members present from st.
Johnsbury, Lyndonville, Royalton,
Rutland and Bennington.
Arrangements for the breakfast,
which was served at one o'clock
were in charge of Mrs. Arthur j.
Holden and Mrs. Collins NJ. Graves.
Colonial colors were used in the
table decorations which were small
vases of forget-me-nots at either end
and in the center a large basket fill
ed with yellow tulips, Shasta daisies
and carmine japonicas and tied
with blue ribbon.
Breakfast was served in four
courses: Fruit cocktail, chicken
ia king, potatoes la natural, aspar-
agus with Hollandaise sauce, hot
rolls, ripe olives, sailed almonds
spring salad, cheese straws, straw
berry ice cream, hermits, coffee, con-
fections.
Letters were read from Mrs. Will
liam Rufus Cox, president of the
national society, Mrs. Joseph r. La
mar, vice president of the national
society, Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Ledyard
Goddard, president of the society in
Colorado and several members of the
society in Vermont including Mrs.
William Gerry Slade, president of
the United States Daughters of 1872,
Mrs. Helen NJ. Winslow. Mrs. julius
j. Estey, Mrs. Orion NJ. Barber and
Mrs. Theodore ~ Vail.
Immediately after the breakfast
meeting of the board of managers
was held which was followed by the
business meeting, at which the fol-
lowing officers were elected.
Honorary president, Mrs. Bradley
B. Smalley, Burlington.
President, Mrs. Henry S. Bingham,
Bennington.
First vice-president, Mrs. John A.
Mead, Rutland
Second vice-president, Mrs. Horace
Hoxie Dyer, Rutland.
Secretary, Mrs. George Allen
Laird. Royalton.
Treasurer, Mrs. Arthur j. Holden.
Old Bennington.
Registrar, Mrs. Perley F. Hazen,
st. Johnsbury.
Historian, Mrs. ]. Holmes. Jack
son, Burlington.
Board of Managers, Mrs. Collins
NJ. Graves of Bennington, Mrs. Clara
Denison Mcclellan of Briarcliff
Manor, N. Y, Mrs. Frank Denison
White of Rutland, Mrs. Arthur j.
Holden of Old Bennington. Mrs. Geo.
Allen Laird of Royalton, Mrs. Perley
+. Hazen of st. Johnsbury, Mrs. J.
Holmes Jackson of Burlington, Mrs.
William A. Root of Bennington, Miss
Mary Rogers Cabot of Brattleboro,
Mrs. Orion M. Barber, Washington,
ID. c., Mrs. James Douglas Abercrom-
bic of Greenfield, Mass. Miss Ger
trude NJ. Dension of Denver. Col.
Appropriations were voted for the
Vermont Association for the Blind,
the monument to mark the site OF
the first meeting house in Vermont
at Old Bennington, and for whatever
commemoration of the landing OF
the Pilgrims at Plymouth shall be
given by the national society at the
three hundredth anniversary of this
event. After adjournment tea was
served.
AS the work of the National Socie-
ty of Colonial Danes is better known
members of the society in Vermont
have an increasing appreciation OF
the privilege and honor of being affi-
lated with this great body of wo-
men who are not only 'honoring the
memory Of their heroic ancestors"
but are also stimulating "a spirit of
true patriotism and a genuine love
of country" and trying to help and
broaden the lives of the present
generation.