Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-19
WHAT NORWICH FREE ACADEMY STANDS FOR

G1&$k AA~A@AEA ) IA N@~a~ l Washington.) She was made more of | than was anybody else in the class,
 with a beautiful, broad friendliness
 which touched every person in the | audience. That was my first impros- l sion of the Norwich Free Academy"- l the Alma Mater, which has ever since l held her welcoming arms open, to re- 1 ceive her children of all colors, creeds | and races; rejoiced with them in their successes, sorrowed with them in their | losses!
 From the first, friends of the town
 and of education have gladly aided in | expanding the Academy's work. Such
 names as Charles J. Stedman, Gen.
 William Williams, Henry F. Bowers,
 Jeremiah Halsey, Mrs Harriet Peck i Williams, J. Newton Perkins, Adam | Reid, Mrs. D. G. Evarts, Robert w. | Sayles, William c. Birge, William H. | lin Nichols. Joanna D. G. Mitchell, | above all, William A. Slater, Charles
 A. Converse, and Lafayette s. Eos | ter, are written in gold in the list of | her benefactors They have provid- l ed the medals, the prizes, the build l ings, the grounds, the working capital, ! which enable the school to live up to 1 the aims of its beneficent corporators. Others, too, have helped. While with many the sentiment has been, at | graduation, that of the typical small | boy, ''Hurrah! Schools out!" some ! who have gone forth, sinnce the Acad- eny spirit inspired her sons to glory | in the Civil War, have returned, an nually, when possible, to say to their
 Alma Mater, "All that I have. owe
 unto thee!" A f1nancier as able as
 Arthur H. Brewer will marvel at the | generosity. the liberality, of the men | who, in those early days began with | the splendid offering of over $7.000 toward free academy. A travelled, | cultured gentleman such as George s. l Palmer will tell with gratitude of what the Norwich Academy did. in putting | into his hands the key to the treasure | house of knowledge. Governors and | statesmen and writers, merchants and | mechanics and artists and scholars | and college presidents and divines, the | soldier. the hOme-maker, in many | lands, carry love and veneration in | their hearts for the old Academy. True; at times she has been like | other neglected mothers, her sons and 1 daughters spendthrift, prodigal, for | getful. But ever she sits like a queen, | in the shelter of her wooded hills, at | her right her handmaidenS, Literature,
 Art; on her left, Labor. Domestic | Sciences, glorified; the shouts of | health and joy and recreation rising from her wide campus. It is not too early to return to her with gifts and | gratitude on her sixtieth anniversary; ;
 and whether the conner be the friend 1 of emperors, whose heart turns joy
 fully toward Norwich and the Acade-
 my" or the plain worker with the
 smut and smudge of labor on his hands.
 she is still the welcoming mother!
 There is big lesson in the list of
 officials of the school, from 1854 to the
 present:
 Corporators and Trustees-Russell l Hubbard, William P. Greene, Governor | William A. Buckingham, William Will
 Hams. Henry B. Norton, John Breed, Caleb B. Rogers, William W. Colt,
 James Lloyd Greene, Daniel Tyler,
 Samuel c. Morgan, Israel M. Buck ingham, lafayette s. Foster David | Smith, John F. Slater, Charles Os- good. Erastus Williams, Lorenzo
 Blackstone, John A, Rockwell Leon-
 ard Ballou, Charles J. Stedman, John
 Gulliver. Charles N. Farnham, Edward | Q. Abbott, Charles Tracy, Albert H.
 Amy, Jeremiah S. Webb, Lucius w
 Carroll, Jedediah Spalding, Stephen
 nB. Meech, Henry Thomas, Christo-
 pher C. Brand; Charles Johnson, Eb- | enezer Learned, Elisha Edwards, An | drew Currier. William M. Converse | George Perkins, J. Hunt Adams, J. l Newton Perkins, Amos W. Prentice, l James M. Huntingdon Charles A. Con- | verse. Timothy B. Norton. Hennry Bill 1 Gardiner Greene, E. Winslow Will
 Hams, Amasa Hall, Daniel F. Gulliver | Gilbert Osgood, Moses Pierce. William F. Greene, Jr, John Mitchell, A. P. | Sturtevant, Thomas D. Say1es, Ed ward Chappell, James S. Carew, B. w | Tompkins, Charles H. Kenyon, Charles
 Bard, Edward N. Gibbs, William H | Fitch, Miss Sarah A. Huntington, Mrs 1 Harriet P. Williams, Frank Johnson, | William A. Slater, Bella P. Learned l William A. Aiken. Jeremiah HaIsey | John M. Johnson, Hugh H. Osgood | George $. Palmer, William N. Black | stone, Jonathan Trumbul1, Francis J.
 Leavens, John A. Rockwell, William | A. Buckingham, Edward A. Palmer | Costello Lippitt, Arthur H. Brewer ! Oliver L. Johnson, Judge Gardiner | erill, Wallace S. Allis, William B.
 Aiken, Frank L. Woodland, Adam Reid | Charles L. Hubbard, Archibald Nit | cheI, Winslow T. Williams, Albert H | Chase, Willis A. Briscoe, Waterman R. 1 Burnham, Grosvenor Ely, Charles w | Frederick T. Sayles, Leonard O. Smith, Ebenezer Learned, Archa P. | Willoughby.
 Presidents-Russel Hubbard, Will | nam '. Greene, William M. Williams, 1 William A. Buckingham. Henry B. l Norton, William A. Slater Lewellyn | Pratt, Francis J. Leavens.
 | Vice Presidents-Amos W. Prentice | George s. Palmer.
 | ecretaries-Ebenezer Learned, Ed ward O. Abbott. John M. Johnson, l William N. Blackstone, Costello Lip pitt.
 | Treasurers-WiIliam A. Bucking-
 ham, Ebenezer Learned. Frank John | son, John M. Johnson, William N. l Blackstone. Francis J. Leavens, Cos 1 tello Lippitt.
 THE DICTAGRAPH.