The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-09-23
s. z. sHARP's STUDENTS
PREVIOUS TO 1878

1910 met SATURDAY, Oepl. To- 1919 a.
! per printed call, published in The
/ Maryville Times, Maryville Enter
prise, Knoxville Journal and Tribune
and Knoxville Sentinel, in the beauti
/ ful shady lawn of James A. Goddard
known to most of US as the Julius
Fagg property"
!, There were present the following
representatives of those by Gone
Days.
Joseph Hudson Broyles, Implement
Dealer.
Pricilla Culton-C Chandler, widow.
Sarah Jane Yearout-C Coulter, wild
ow, Farmer.
Ex-Mayor Sam Everett, Farmer
Promoter.
Ella McGhee-G Goddard, wife of a
Real Estate Dealer.
Eugene Logan-Hair, wife of a
Farmer.
Marshall Alexander Hall, retired
Farmer.
Hassie Yearout-Hall wife of above.
George Craig Jackson, retired
Lawyer.
Rufus Stephens Kennedy, with
Aluminium Company.
George Humphrey Leatherwood,
Farmer.
Phoebe Malcome-Logan, widow.
Toney Nook, Painter.
Silas Madison Morton, Justice of
the Peace.
Laura Ann ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
widow.
Alexander Breckenridge McTeer,
Physician.
William Edmund Parham, with
Aluminium Company.
James Harrison White, Farmer.
Each gets their mail at Maryville,
or routes out from Maryville.
James Andrew Goddard, former
teacher with Sharp, and Ida Baker
Parham were guests.
Having spent some time in re-
miniscencing, we proceeded to feed
the inner man from an abundant
supply placed upon a forty-eight foot
table, finishing with ice cream, then
drinking from the old spring, under
the Oaks, which is now protected by
a concrete wall and covers.
After dinner we all seated our
selves upon nice folding seats, kindly
loaned for the occasion by Ed F.
Harper, furniture dealer, and pro-
ceeded to organize for future social
reunions:
Our teacher of "Ye Olden Days"
! S. z. Sharp, had written a letter stat
ing that he was strong, had never
needed to use glasses to read and
write, could shoot straight off hand
with a rifle, in spite of his nearly
eighty-four years of age. He says
his wife is eighty years and feeble,
and his daughter, Ann Sharp-Davis, is
in Washington, D. c., her husband
being in the office of Sect. of State,
Lansing. Her address is 10 Oak
Ave, Takoma Park. His son, Thea
dore, is in Dixon, Montana. His let
ter vas read and a vote of thanks was
ordered sent to himself and family
with u best wishes for their future
life, and much more thanks for the
good he had done us in the past, be-
lieving, as we do that he is the best
teacher we have ever had the priv
lege of being under, a thorough one
in his efforts to prepare US for life's
work. A vote of thanks were taken
for the photo of himself, which we
readily recognized, although taken
many years since we last met with
him and in return we send him q
permitted to attend this, the first re-
uIlOIls OSolHty OIlly WI Nv JlISS U
US are more than twenty-four years
younger than himself.
1t was then voted to make this a
permanent organization and a COM
mittee on future meeting time and
James A. Goddard and Mrs. Sam
Hair. We want all old members to
join with US, and we hope TO provide
Dnyt uoar tho nrneonoo of o1lp-tnonhnr |
Motion carried that we ask the
papers to publish the address of Prof.
Sharp and forward a copy to him.
Adjourned
w. f. Parham, Chairman,
M. A. Hall, Sec. & Treas.
Copy of letter written by A. z.
Sharp to his former students and
friends:
Fruita, Colo, Sept. 9Th, 1919.
To my friends and former students
at Maryville, Tenn, and vicinity:
My dear friends
l, extremely regret that l can not
meet with you on a reunion, while |
am still hale and hearty, the condi-
ton of my wife's health is such that
it would be unwise for me to leave
home. To meet with you would
bring back to my memory scenes and
events of some of the happiest
moments of my life. Our past asso-
Citations together have woven into our
lives, cords of friendship and affec-
ton which can only be severed by
death. While time has wrought
many changes upon US all, yet the
impression you have made upon my
memory, is that of a happy group of
young people, full of hope and deter
mination to undertake the great re-
sponsibilities of life and it's results.
How we'll have you succeeded?
1t always was my custom to offer
you advice that might be helpful to
YOU in future years and | can not re-
from embracing this last oppor-
to offer you one more.
When | was taking my college
course l read a little book in Latin,
entitled De Senectute, which contain
ed the story of an old man telling a
young man how to gain a happy old
age. That book made a deep i'm
preston on my mind and l have fol-
many of its directions, to my
great advantage so that | am inclined,
in a modified form to offer them to