News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19
PROPOSE SPAULDING ME-
MORTAL
Old Barre Academy Students
Organize an AsssoCiat ton
for the Purpose
From the Barre Time.1

At memorable gathering of Barre
academy alumni held in Barre recently, a
movement looking toward the erection of
a suitable memorial to DR.. and Mrs. ia
cob S. Spaulding took tangible form in
the organization of an association. Tbir-
| teen members of classes in the early '7O's
came together, some of them for the
first time in more than 40 years A TT.
union dinner at Hotel Barre was followed
| by gathering in the chapel at Spauld-
| ing high school, which was placed at the
! disposal of the older graduates through
the courtesy of Prin. H. H. Jackson,
In the party who dined together and
afterward gathered on the old grounds
for "reminiscences were MIR. and Mrs.
George E. G. Wheaton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles w. Averill, Mrs. Flora Peck
Burnham, Mrs. Carrie Bowles Carpenter
of Montpelier, Mrs. Clara Peck Osgood
of Lynn, Mass, Virgil E. Ayers. Louis
F. Rabbit of Northampton, Mass, Fred
X. Blount of New York City, Gregory
Carleton of Marbehead, Mass, John II.
Pollard of Fair Haven and Prof. w. A.
Wheaton.
While the informal gathering at the
high school was in progress, many letters
of regret from all parts of the country
were received. Naturally, recollections
of old days at the academy centered "a
round the revered names of DR.. Spauld-
ing, "Uncle Jake" as he was lovingly
called, and his faithful wife. Tribute
was paid to his prophetic eye as man of
affairs, as well as a ripe scholar. His
early enthusiasm for the development of |
Barre granite found expression in his |
saw the day when Barre would make re-
markable strides, and some of the changes |
that have come about were interestingly |
discussed by his students.
Among those from whom letters were
received were Mrs. Ella Bacon Clark of |
Saltwater, Mimi, Mrs. Frances COmings
Parker of st. Paul, Mimi, Mrs. Fannie
Carleton Dixie of Chicago and DR.. Leon.
aid X. Graves of New York City.
= The Barre Academy association, formed
for the purpose of securing funds for a
has for its officers Frederick
Il. Blount as president, w. A. Wheaton
as vice-president, Mrs. Flora p. Durham
as secretary and treasurer. A committee
made up of G. w. Averill, V. f. Ayers
and Miss Carrie Wheelock was elected to
cooperate with the Barre Board of Trade
aud citizens in the memorial project. An
appeal to all alumni of the academy is to
be made, and it is stated that any former
student of the academy may consider
his notice, should it chance to meet his
Eye, as an invitation to aid in the move
nent. 1t is hoped that older graduates,
who had their tutelage from DR.. Spauld-
ng, will be especially interested in the
move to commemorate in granite and
,ronze his achievements for Barre and
he cause of education. Men who have |
made their mark in the world of affairs
rave gone out from the old Barre acad-
my, and the response to the appeal is
to be prompt and spontaneous.
Later in the afternoon, the alumni
vent to Elmwood cemetery, where choice
lowers, contributed by former students.
we're strewn over the Spaulding family ,
OF In the evening, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E.
:. Wheaton entertained the party at a
at their home on Kinney street. S
Rev. Artemus Dean, said to be the
ldest surviving alumnus of Amherst Col l
ege and prominent PresbYterian clerrr- | z