Arizona republican., 1914-06-06
TEMPE
SOME "REMINISCENCES
 AT BANQUET TABLE
Annual Alumni Banquet on Thursday Evening at Tempe Normal
 Splendid Success


 over one hundred members of the Alumni Association of the Tempe Normal assembled at their annual banquet Thursday evening to wei come into the organization the sixty nine members of this years gradu- aline class. Many of the classes that have graduated from the normal since 1886 bore representation at the gathering and many were the pleas ant "reminiscences of olden times call ed to mind during the course of the evening as the old and the young met, became acquainted and talked over the days of yore and those of the present.
 The alumni members and seniors first met Thursday evening on the i lawn by President Matthews cot tage where they spent a pleasant hour in social chatting. From be- heath the electric lights of the lawn at 9:30 the gathering retired to the dining room where the remainder of the evening was spent at the ban ] quet table. Here for the first hour the excellent repast prepared by Chef Krause of the normal was en- 1 joyed.
 | Short addresses by some of the older alumni members and present officials of the normal filled in the | time after the banquet When the roll was called immediate response was secured by President John Null len +b olo of 1886. Two of the four members who comprised that first class were present Thursday evening" Reese M Ling, who claims the distinction oe graduating from the Tempe normal in sixteen weeks time as the first teacher ever granted a teachers cer- tficate from that institution. and Col. James H. McClintock. who re- celVed his credentials but a fer months later. Both of these gentle men reviewed their life at the nor maj, comparing it then to what it is today.
 The class of '93, the next one in crder to be represented Thursday evening. was brought back to life ri the Alumni association with shor. and highly enjoyable address by At. torney Chas. C. Woolf, the only one of the seven members to be present
 94 had two representatives present {:
 96, two; '97, three; '99. three: 0l. two; 'O2, one; '03, two. At this point m the roll call the assembly was again favored with a review of nor , nal life during the 1900 days. Ivy Attofhey Linn Laney, one of the two members present of the class of 1903
 l''i was represented by two mem
 bers: '05 by two; 'O6, two; or. one:
 10. six, 'f2 by six: IS by twelve and "A by practically all of the sixty
 nine graduates With the roll called to date, Sidney B. Moeur, president
 Of this years class. in short ana Interesting talk, told of the future intentions of those of "A. A class corresponding secretary has been ap-
 pointed and the members have pledg. , ed themselves to keep in touch witt , that person and through that medium with all their old classmates. , During the banquet and througl the remainder of the evening whe, . there was q lull in the program. yer, o enjoyable music was rendered by tn, . Tempe orchestra, which made it. f flrst public appearance on this oc caslon. Their renditions were splen Q old and undoubtedly aided in the at Q traction of more enga gements fo I them during the future.
 While the alumni banquet this yea II only attracted 150 or so of the SO c graduates of the normal. it turne, f out decided success and gives ev e cry indication that next years at , tendance will be much larger. Al V the members have pledged themselve
 to solicit the presence of more of tn II Valley members in future years an V do everything possible to make tn r annual reunions of Tempe norma V graduates occasions always to b V remembered and always to be locke . forward to.