The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-16
HAVE RAISED
$4,000 FOR
ACADEMY FUND
Enthusiastic Meeting of
of Academy Alumni
Association

Green little town atop the hill
With a white spire guarding all,
Across your smiling valley still
The long shades fall.
Through all your wide and leafy
lanes
The sun has now unrolled
The royal rug of dapple stains
OF gloom-flecked gold.
For old St. j., my dear,
For old St. j.,
Wen sing a SONG and raise a cheer
For old St. J.
Here still the Mother sits cnthron-
Among her lordly trees.
Her children's voices rise, e,intoned
Like June's glad bees.
The angry winters cannot break
The scepter of her charms
And the beauty still the summers
Gake
In their fond, proud arms.
For old st. j., my dear, etc.
Whatever paths our feet have
known,
I{Fhey her return to rest.
However far the wings have flown,
These elms are still their nest.
And where we sang our morning
lays
bet evening songs be sung
The memories of olden days
In hearts still young.
For old ST. j., my dear, etc.
This was the reunion song writ
ten by Judge Wendell p. Stafford
to be sung to the familiar Scotch
air of "Auld Lang Syne" which
enthused the $50 alumni OF St.
Johnsbury Academy at their an
nual banquet in tn South church
vertry Thursday afternoon, and
where it was announced during the
meeting that over $4,000 had
been subscribed for the half a NIL
lion dollar endowment fund Many
classes were represented at the
various tables and alumni from
near and far were present, Bella
S. Huntington of the class of '78
oming from Portland, Ore.
Music for the occasion was furn-
ishcd by the Academy orchestra
and after an excellent dinner the
class of 1922 gave a series of yells
that aroused much enthusiasm.
Arthur X. Brooks, president Of the
association, then raped to order
and referred very happily to the
gavel presented by Charles II.
Horton from some of the wood of
the steering wheel of the U. S.
warship Brooklyn, one o fthe fight
ing units of the navy of the Civil
war. Later in the afternoon a vote
of thanks was extended Mr.. Hor-
ton for his highly appreciated gift.
Hon. Charles W. Gates of
Franklin, president of the board
of trustees, was the first speaker
and paid notable tribute to the
three founders of the school their
sons who carried on through their
long and useful lives and to the
principals he knew in his Acad-
emy days, Dr.. Fuller and Mr.. Put
ney.
Prof. L. S. Hastings of Dart
mouth College was a member of
the last class that was under the
instruction of Principal James X.
Colby and in the opening of his |
address he asked those to rise who
were in the Academy in those
days. These then stood up and |
were applauded, c. c. Bingham,
Mrs. Rebccca Z. Fairbanks, Prof (
James f. Colby, Miss Augusta I
Gorham and Mrs William H.
Ward
Prof. Hastings then spoke of the |
great men Derry had furnished to ,
the country. teachers, state and |
national officials, and said as a
Prof. Colby possessed F.,
three notable traits, accuracy, !
thoroughness and rapidity. He
said he was a disciplinarian in the
finest sense. In closing a splendid !
tribute to the man that for "a
years guided the deStinies of the |
school declaring that the founders
succeeded by working through Mr..
Colby.
All the students under Principal
Colby gave brief "reminiscences of
those early days, Mrs. Fairbanks
contributing the information that
the real instigator OF the founding
of the academy was Mrs. joseph
Fairbanks, d sister of Samuel H.
Taylor, the great educator, who
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