Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-17
N.F. ALUMNI TELL WAR EXPERIENCES

vision saw fierce and continuous fight 1g for 26 days, a record for the american army. and lost heavily in officers and men, the number being bout 215 officers and 5000 men. Ser ;eant York. the Tennessee man. who ias recently been hailed as the great est American hero. Mir. Pullen said, was member of the sgd division.
 After two well rendered selections by tie boys glee club, Raymond Case, NcademE 1903. sergeant major in the '02d field artillery. with nine months
 ervice in France, was the next speak 3r. He gave it as his conclusion that he big lesson of the war to the Amer
 can people was that when a people unite for the right and an ideal they ,an accomplish almost anything.
 He mentioned meeting Bruce Mo Milan. another Academy boy one day
 T France, McMillan then a first lieu
 .na1lt and Case a buck private. but
 lie lieutenant sought out his old school
 acquaintance with four others of the
 utfit and set them up to fine sup per. Since then there has always been l warm place in his heart, the speaker
 aid, for Bruce McMillan, and the au-
 Hence applauded in sympathy. MT Case mentioned in passing the Nigh regard in which the American lestroyers were held as conveys and hat they sank one submarine with 'epth bombs while a British cruiser ot another of a fleet of submarines hat attacked the transport he was ,n. He spoke of the scarcity of am- l intuition for the troops and said that l though tho field artillery men car jed guns they had no cartridges fol l hem and he had none for the revol- ar that he carried
 | Earle c. Herrick, Academy 1905. 2 1 eutenant in the 56th heavy artillery | ave a description of the variou. l ehools that he was sent to in France | nd told. how he travelled back ant
 nrth, trying to find his regimen | Then he finally got orders to rejoin it l hey participated in the final driv' l awards Sedan but could scarcel. | nove the guns fast enough to keep il ange of the fleeing Germans.
 Lester Hull. president of the clas
 of 1919. spoke briefly for the class ant
 was followed by Principal H. A. Tir
 rell
 Principal Tirrell spoke in apprecia 1 tion of what the returned soldiers ha told and mentioned that he had take a census of what the pupils of tn
 school had done in war work and sai
 it showed their earnings had been owe
 s422,000 While there had probabl been a los- in scholarship in the pas
 year there had been gain in man
 ways.
 lie announced several changes
 the faculty for the coming schot
 year. Miss Charlotte Gulliver is |
 have a leave of absence for ha
 year and her place is to be taken b Mrs. Charles H. Haskell. forme teacher ia the Academy. Miss Hele
 De Long who has been the Englis : teacher is not to be at the scho'
 next year. Tn her place there hs been secured Milton McGorrill, who just graduating from Bowdoin colleg : He has been prominent in the gle club and the tennis club at college. There is to be an extenson of tf manual training work and Louis l Walden is to return to the school { an instructor there. The commerci : work is also 10 be enlarged and Mi: } Victoria Malmer will be added to tn:
 department.
 Principal Tirrell also announce : that the Academy was feeling the il crease in expenses and it would l necessary to make the tuition s 5 more than formerly for both local al /. out of town pupils.
 l At the adjournment of this part l the reunion, the alumni membe : present went to the gymnas sium in u t main building for dancing which las r ed till midnight Johnsons socie . orchestra played.