Connecticut western news., 1921-07-28
MOUNT HERMAN TO CELE- BRATE 10th ANNIVERSARY Of Its Founding in 1881 on
 July 30, 31 and
 August 1st

Mount Herman School celebrates the Fortieth Anniversary of its found ing, in 1881 by Dwight L. Moody, on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, July 30-31 and August 1st.
 Former students have written from all parts of the country that they are coming back to. spend these three days as the guests of their Alma Mater. The man who is coming from the longest distance in the West is from Idaho, and from the longest distance in the South, from Florida. Between eight hundred and one thousand alumni will be on the campus during the reunion days. To accommodate this large number of men, additional beds will be placed in the dormitories, and the recitation buildings will be turned into dormitory buildings.
 The first formal event on the pro- gram will be the faculty reception on Ford Cottage lawn, on the even ing of July 30th, from S:30 to 10:30 P. M. The Address of Welcome
 will be given by Principal Henry F.
 Cutler, and the Response by Wm.
 Aver Mckinney, '96, of Chicago,
 President of the Mount Hermon
 Alumni Association.
 The Exercises for Sunday, July
 31st will begin with a Prayer Meet
 ing in the Memorial Chapel at S:30
 A. M. led by Rev. John D. Axtell,
 10, of Hall, N. Y. The church ser
 vice will be held at 10:30 A. M. at
 Memorial Chapel. Reverend Charles
 A. Brooks, '93, one of the secretaries
 of the American Baptist Home Mis-, sion Society, New York City will
 preach the Anniversary Sermon.
 Other Alumni will participate in the
 service. Following the morning ser
 vice, there will be the unveiling of
 the tablet erected in memory of the
 sixty-nine Hermon men who died in
 the service during the Great War.
 The addresses will be made by Col
 onel James A. Trotten, U. s. A. of
 Washington, D. C., of the class of
 '99, and by Principal Henry F. Cut
 Ter. There will probably be a ser
 vice in the afternoon, form to be
 announced later, in the Memorial N Chapel at 500 o'clock. In the even
 ing, beginning at 2 o'clock, there will
 be half hour of vesper music, with
 Edward F. Holbrook of Keene, N.
 H., of the class of '95, as organist . The evening service in the Memorial
 Chapel will be at 7:45 o'clock. .. A
 number of speakers will take the general topic Mount Herman and , the Worlds Needs" Men who are l already listed to speak are John L. Tildsley, 's9, Asst. Super,ntsn1t=t Public Schools of New York City, Richard c. Morse, Jr,, '02, Superin- tendent of Freight Transportation, Eastern Division, Pennsylvania Rail- road, Philadelphia, Pa., pr. Walter W. Palmer, '01, formerly of the John Hopkins Medical School, and - just now of the Presbyterian Hos
 pital, New York City, Rev. Wm. '.
 Duncan, '06, associated with the . New York Home Missionary Socic3y,
 New York City, and Wilfred w. Fry, '96, of the firm of N. W. Ayers
 & Son, Philadelphia, Pa.
 Monday, August 1st, will open f with the annual meeting aof the s Mount Hermon Alumni Association, , Memorial Chapel, 8:30 A. M. Irniae- 7 diately after dinner, arrangements f have been made to take a panoramic 5 photograph of the Fortieth Anniver- sary guests. This is to be followed by class meetings at 200 P. M. at the 5 various rooms and houses which f have been designated in the formal
 program. Beginning at 4:00 P. M., . the Alumni give themselves up to ? fun and frolic. There will be a par , ade of the different classes dressed . in various and fantastic costumes.
 to Chambers Field, where each clss
 will march to a point designated by 7 the Committee. Following tilis .he.e
 will be games of various kinds ar 1 P descriptions. All this IS undsr .ne
 direction of Leslie M. JShn1.e,. '~ !. l General Manager of A. M. Byers - & Co.,, Pittsburgh, Pa. The closing formal event of the program will be s the dinner at West Hall, at 2 P. M. l The Postmaster will be Dr. W. g Richard Ohler, '06, of Boston. Among the speakers will be; one of the trustees, Arthur G. H. Power. l '04, an attorney in New York City, r Paul M. Thomas, '08, a manufac- t t': - EGston, Pa, George S. l Hurst, 'a9, who has charge of the l adva i-s;ng of J. B. Williams & Co., Glastonbury, Frank L. Duley, .'93, of
 the Northfeid Seminary faculty V and Wm. R. Moody, 's7, President of = the Board of Trustees. Following the dinner there will be an informal V sing east of West Hall.