The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-15
"Boys" Of 1891 Graduating Class OF
Old keokuk Medical College are
Celebrating In keo&euk To
day and Tomorrow.
WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO
Physicians Spending Time With Pro
gram, Banquet and Sight Seeing
Excursions TO Old Time
Hsunts and Hangoues-

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day, this evening and tomorrow. for
the graduates of the class of 1891
of the Keokuk Medical college who
are here celebrating class reunion.
The boys of thirty years ago have
been arriving in the city all day.
They are headquartering at the Iowa
hotel, and the lobby there is the
meeting place for them.
! It's the spirit of hail fellow well
met, the latest conner goes to the desk
to register and then looks around for
his brethren. He never misses pick
ing out the man in his profession
and he hurries across the room to
greet him. Names are often forgot
ten, but 1.-THE boys" shake hands,
look each other straight in the eye,and
nearly always hit on the proper han
die, sometimes, however, only after
the men have taken off their hats
and the familiar brows of long ago
are exposed.
. The two-day program was begun
this afternoon at o'clock when class
Organization and general business
meeting was held in the Tiffany room
of the hotel. The old college songs
were sung, greetings were given by
DIR. S. W. Moorhead and DR.. H. A.
Kinnaman welcomed the visitors to
! the occasion DIR. NJ. Alice Ingies, the
secretary of the class of 1891, called
/ the roll over twenty of the class
answering to their names.
! The hours between the meeting
| this afternoon and until o'clock to-
night. when they will all be guests
at a banquet, will be filed with more
"reminiscences of other days, and re-
ports on the members who are not
present. None of the class seem to
have been forgotten, even though they
failed to appear in Keokuk today. The
names of first one and then another
of the old crew would be mentioned
as some of their pals would look
around and not see them. Doc.
where'd you say Joe was now, and
can't he get hehre?" or Tom can't
come, had to see his boy graduate
from some school down In Virginia
this week" were examples of the in
tarested comments made on absent
members.
In fact the day has been brim full
of pleasant memories for the doctors
who are in the city to attend the re-
union of the class and they have been
visiting the places which they used
to haunt and the old hangouts OF
their college days.
The banquet will be held this even
ing in the Tiffany room of the hotel
with Dr.. c.. E. Ruth, formerly of keo-
kuk, acting as POSTMASTER. and the
other members of the class to make
short talks. Members OF the class
who were unable to attend the reun-
ion have sent letters to be read this
evening at the banquet. Dr. Belle r.
81 Kan has sent
an original poem to be read at this
occasion. ~
The boys" of the class of 1891 will
be remembered tonight with verses
parallel to the boys Oliver Wendell
Holmes wrote about thirty years after
his class graduated and presented to
them upon an occasion of reunion.
DR.. J. Whitefield Smith, president of
the class of 1891, has applied the
words of the poet to his class, and
they will be read tonight.
Tomorrow will be excursion day for
the alumni, and they will visit places
of interest to them with special ref
erence to sites which figured in their
college life. A class picture will be
taken tomorrow afternoon in Rand
mark to be compared with one taken
of the boys thirty years ago. The
nrograns which were sent out to the
class this year were decorated with
PICTURES of The Gate City building.
which was the home of the old med1-
cal college, the faculty of the schooi
and a picture of the boys OF the class
of 1891.
The class of 1891 has the distinc-
ton of being the first one to graduate
from the Keokuk Medical college, and
the officers of that year are in keo-
kuk today They are: President, Dr.
u. Whitefeld Smith; secretary, Dr.,
M, Alice Ingles; treasurer, DR.. B. S.
Pennington.
The program of today's events ana
low:
! TUESDAY
Two O'clock
Hotel Iowa
PROGRAM
Class Organization
| Greetings-Dr. S. w. Moorhead-
The Old College Som s-Dr. G. w.
Roller, chorister.
Welcome-Dr. H. A. Kinnaman.
Response-Dr. J. D. Chittum, vice
president.
I Roll call (Dr.-M. Alice Ingles, Sec.)
DR.. B. S. Pennington, treasurer.
Election Of officers.
Historical.
Adjournment.
| BANQUET
| 1870 O'clock
DR.. c. E. Ruth, Toastnlaster.
!Give them friendly welcome every
/ one; ...
Let them want nothing.
Shakespeare.
DR. H. A. Kinnaman. -. The College
Still are the thoughts to memory
| dear. Scott
DR. A. M. Pond. .... Student Days
i l cannot but remember sucn