Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-08
NORWICH MEN WILL
 ATTEND ALUMNI BANQUET
Governor Mccall to Speak on Duty of
 Americans in Present Crisis.

Local men who are listed among the
 members of the Worcester Academy Alumni have received notification to
 the banquet and reunion to be held at a Boston hotel on Friday evening of
 this week.
 Governor Mccall is to speak on the duty Of Americans in the present crisis at the great banquet and reunion of be held in Hotel Somerset. Boston. on Friday evening, March 9th. This will
 be the first public utterapces that he has made upon the topic in the pres ly many pressing invitations to speak. The main theme of the evening being patriotism and the duty of citizens in the present crisis. Governor Mccall
 will seize upon the occasion as an suspicious opportunity to present his
 views.
 The evening will be notable. in other respects. Hon. John Barrett, director general of the Pnn-American Union, and graduate of the Academy in the where he is closely associated with all shades of opinion of North and South America. to present his view points His utterances will command great proof of his loyalty to his school that he consents at this critical time to leave his post, and to voice in his effective way the Academy Ideals Of
 
 Another of the most prominent graduates of the Academy, President Ernest Martin Hopkins, of Dartmouth college, a graduate of the Academy in 1896. gives up important engagements that he may be present. and make the contribution of a typical college man to the theme of the evening. The younger alumni are to be represented by Walter H. Wheeler, Jr., class of '14, who returned last fall from arn- bulance service in Europe, having been wounded while at the front and hay ing received the French Croix De Guerre for conspicuous bravery. Wheeler is the captain of the Harvard football team for the coming year.
 The number of Acadmy men who will gather to do honor to those speak CTS and to pledge their patriotic ser vice to the country as a school and tendance at any previous alumni re- union of the school. The scope of the is national. and invitations have been sent the alumni from New England to California Special trains are to be run from some New England points, and a special car will prob ably run from Chicago. picking up alumni at Cleveland, Detroit. Buffalo, Syracuse and other points along the route.
 The fact that in the present Euro pean war thirteen alumni of the school have gone to the front was large factor in determinipg that the theme of the evening should be Patriotism. Three of these have already laid down their lives for their fellowfnen. Albert 's7. Sumter Arnold. 'o5. and Merrill S. Gaunt, 10. News of the de- parture of the thirteenth has just reached the school. he being William s. Johnson. also of 1910, who sailed Feb. { for Bordeauz on the steamship and who Ia already on duty with the ambulance service on the French-Gernan front Attention. however. is not to be restricted to the participation in the pres ent world struggle, but her honorable career of service since her founding in 1884 will be dwelt upon. A feature of the evening win be the presence of an Academy student in 1860, who saw service Shreughout the Civil war.