The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-25
How Fund Came into Exist
ence-Annual Income
from $4,000
FIRST AWARDS MADE
ON JUNE 20, 1907
List of Recipients in Each Year from
Then Until Now With Statement of
Present Whereabouts and occupa-
tion-Three Have Died.

Then Until NOW with statement OF |
Present Whereabouts and Occupa-
tion-Threc Have Died.
When Col William Austine of Brattle-
boro died he left $4,000 to the incorporat- |
cd school district with the provision that
the income should be awarded each year
to the member of the graduating class
who had maintained the best scholarship |
during the course The probate court
and school officials considered it legal and
wise to divide the income, which is $500,
TO. the four students maintaining the high
est standing for the four years, and that
course has been followed, but in some
years the marks of some of the graduates
have been so close that it has been neees-
sary to divide one or more of the $lOOl
prizes. Many will be interested to know
what the prize winners III former years
are now doing.
ON June %, 1907, the first winners of
the prizes were announced. The interest,
which amounted to $500 that year, wasi
distributed on the basis of SO each to the
four pupils who had the best showing
on the years work They were Miss Mar
ION +. Simonds, now secretary to Fred
Cricll L. Houghton of Brattleboro, who is
secretary of the Holsten-Freisian Asso-
citation of America; Harry c. Sargent,
who died Feb 6, l9lS;. Miss Corona A..
Bell, now certificate clerk for the Hol-
stcin-Frcsian association; and Miss Flor
crcc l.. Strong, now Mrs. Harry Rafferty,
OF Glastonbury, Conn.
The second class to receive the prizes
was Of June IS, 1908, when the honors
were divided equally between boys and
girls, the marks being based on their
records for two years. Paul p Jones
of Windham is now principal of the high
school in Antrim, n. H.; Ralph w. Howe
of East Dover is now junior member Of
the drug firm OF Parmalee & Howe Of
Wilmington; Miss Margaret G.. Barber of
this town is teacher of mathematics in
Mount Vernon seminary, Washington, ID.
G.; and Miss Nellie ]. Fem Of Westmin-
stcr is teacher Of geography and science in
the seventh and eigth grades of Brattle-
boro school district, No. ,.
Girls cXcellcd in the honors for the
three-year record in the class which grad
uatcl June %, 1909. when prizes were
awarded to four Brattcboro students,
a.
in the Presbyterian hospital in New York
city; Miss Ruth A. Brown. now Mrs
Raymond s. Richardson of Lowville, n
N.:Miss Irene A. Plimpton, now Mrs
H. Chester lIoyt Of this town; and Miss
Helen NJ Betterley, now Mrs. Arthur
Noon OF Manila, Philippine Islands.
Austinc honors for the class of June p
1910, were based for the first time OIL
marks for the full four-year course ant
were awarded to two boys and two girls
all Brattlcboro young people. They wer
Miss Miriam \. Howard. now wife o
Clarence +. Merrill of this town; Harol
T. Staples. who is with the law firm o
Tillinghast & Collins in Providence, Il. !.
Harold +. johnson, agricultural agent 70
Orleans county with headquarters in New
port; and Miss Mary +. Austin, stenos
laphcr for Barber, Barber & Miller, law
ycrs, and clerk of the municipal court.
Miss Helen +. Kenney, who died Jun
O. 1915, had the highest rank for the fou1
year course of any member Of the elias
Of June %, 1911, The three other priz
winners were Miss Evelyn Emerson, VIII
has been teacher Of domestic science
the high school in Woonsocket, II. l., tn
past two years and has just accepted a
appointment as dietitian at the Lincol
House in Boston; S. +. Brecse Mors
who is ia Athol, Mass, with the d.
Adams Sill, Co., of which he will becom
manager as soon as he has learned II
business sufficiently; and Miss Laura
Walbridge, who is now teacher of Lat
in the high school here.
On June Is, 1912, for the first tin
Eve students in the high school partcipa
cd in the Austne prizes, two young wor
On, Miss Marguerite H. White and Nj
Rosahcl Miller, beth Of this town, tyil
for fourth place oad each receiving
check for $50 Mss White is pow Nh
Iazcn Stockwcll Of this town, and Mi
Miller died Oct Is, 1918 The FIRST, Sc
ond and third honors went to Everett
Wentworth Of East Dover, who was pr
cipa OF the Hinsdalc high school pro
, Gus TO entering the military service. ]
IS now working ON a farm in Sprngiic
Mass hut will resume teaching in I
fall; Miss CarIotta Il. Hopkins, now W
of Paul y. Convey Of Baltimore Md; a
C. Warner Hopkins, who is manager
the Hopkins greenhouses in this town.
Five Brattlcboro girls received Chico
i'm the class of June IL, 1913, the fou,
honor being divided equally with NJ
Gertrude s plummer, who is now ST
ing in the home of her parents on Ca
street, and will lie married in
home this evening, and Miss j.
isc b. Brockington, who was m
Rcd last evening TO Henry
Chandler Of this town Miss Car
NJ. Duuton, winner of the first honC
now lives in the home Of her father, JC
n. Duntou of Highland street; Miss NJ
ioric T. Leach is teacher of mathcmat
in the high school in Stafford Sprir
Conn: and Miss Godie r. johnson
now Mrs. Willard S. Richardson OF w
= Brattleboro
The only time when the boys have Y
Tire majority of the Austine prizes
june lG 1914, when the first three hor
went to them, the fourth going to a
They were Clyde w Horton. who era
ated this week from the civil engineer
course at the University Of Nermc
Leslie c. Wyman, who is paymaster
the Fort Dummer mills in this to