Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-16
ANNUAL DINNER oF
 THE NORWICH SOCIETY
George H. Hyde Elected President For
 the Coming Year.

The annual dinner of the Norwich l Society of New York was held Satur- day evening at the Majestic hotel, Cen tra1 Park West and 72nd street, New York city. There were 36 members present.
 The socisty has lost one member by death during the past year. Dr. Car l rington Miner. Three new members were taken into the society Saturday l night The following officers were
 elected for the coming year: President. George H. Hyde; vice president, Edward c. Ely; treasurer, 1 O. Chester Johnson; secretary. w. l Clark Huntinkton.
 Executive committee: Charles A. Terry, Elisha Mcclure. Louis J. Cham | onsky, J. w. Farrell and Frank c. Pal
 mer.
 Howard C. Russ. chairman of the en- tertainment committee made a report of the smoker given short time ago. Charles A. Terry. president of the society referred to several notices that
 had appeared in The Norwich Bulletin
 during the past year about what the
 Norwich Society was doing in New
 York.
 Henry W. Keigwtn. former teacher
 at the Norwich Free Academy, who is
 a new member of the society spoke
 very interestingly about the society
 and thought it a fine idea for former
 Norwich men to get together and talk
 over Norwich matters.
 Bruno H. Grodotzke another new
 member, also William B. Klein, gave interesting talks.
 John W. Reynolds said he was much
 interested in the Norwich society. and
 the members agreed with him as he came over from Philadelphia to take in the entertainment and dinner.
 Gilbert Lamb, lawyer of New York city, talked about Norwich and said that most of the summer he was at his farm in Franklin and would be pleas ed to see any of the Norwich Society members there at any time. He buy property around Norwich even if they did reside in New York the great CT part Of the year.
 Edward c. Ely gave very interest ing talk about his two years trip around the world. He told of the diff ferent customs of the people. the war preparations that were going on while he was in these foreign countries. He told about the sinking of the German raider Emden near Australia while he was in that country. also the sfzillfuI methods used by the British in trap ping the Enden.
 MT. Ely promised to give another talk at some future meeting of the socte- ty.
 Leroy Stearns. who is sergeant in the 7th New York regiment. told about his experiences on the Mexican border He was located at McAIlen, Texas, Marco Parker. who was also sergeant in tbe 7th in the medical department, also entertained the members with stories Of happenings while f1 Texas. Both Sergeant Stea<as and Parker thought sli 1rf1o could. saouid enlist as this was the time to show. the patriot ism.
 The valjo orchestra went down from and furnished fine music dur ing the evening. They were given a vote of thanks by the society.
 The next get-to-gether of the society 1 will be in about two months and will l be ah informal dinner. Following are 1 the list of members who were present: 1
 Howard C. Russ. Edward c. Ely. Ed l win A. Reeves. william T. McNamara, l Edgar L. Messinger. Anthony B. Ar 1 mold, Fremont D. Palmer, Louis J. | Gilbert D. Lamb. James A. | Somers M D.. William B. Klein. F. M l J. M. Reynolds. William Os- | good Morgan, Henry W. Keigwin. Ar thur P. McWilliams. Louis IT. Afofsfn, Nj. D.. P. B. Post, Arthur l.. Post. Ed ward L. Dennis, F. s. Gilbert. J. W. Farrell L. L. Stearns. Walter M. Rose, l Frank L. Potter. Marco S. Parker, Rru- 70 Grodotzke, William F. Cunningham, VI. D. ". c. Huntington. J. H. Storer. Charles A. Terry. George IT. Hyde. O. '. Johnson. Everard Brfgden and Wn1- am c. Brfgden.