Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-17
Reception Follows
Opening School Year
Oak Grove Seminary

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completed at Oak Grove Seminary,
on Friday evening, when the members
of the faculty gave a delightful re-
ception to the students and friends
of the school. This is an established
custom at the Quaker school and
forms a most fitting close to the
varied activities of the opening week.
Every detail of the schedule of work
had been so carefully planned in ad-
vance that the students were regis
tered Immediately upon their ar
rival on Tuesday and all of the class
es met promptly Typographical work
on Wednesday morning. This was
made possible by the fact that every
member of the teaching staff arrived
in advance of the student body and
the first faculty meeting was held on
Monday evening previous to the arri-
val of the students on Tuesday. BY
this means, as fast as the students
were registered and given their books
they were all able to have confer
ences with their instructors. Two out
ing parties for the girls, regular foot
ball practice for the boys and the
excitement of settling rooms have
kept the recreation hours so full that
the students had not had an oppor-
tunity to meet socially until Friday
evening.
The reception was held in the IL
brary, music room and spacious re-
ception halls. which were filled to ov-
erf1owing with merry boys and girls.
The halls were artistically decorated
with massive jars of phloX and hyd-
rangias. while the smaller rooms were
set off with the smaller bouquets OF
eladioli and cut flowers. The girls OF
the junior class served the dainty re-
freshments which considered of har-
leQuin ice cream and fancy cakes.
After faculty, students and friends
had met socially. a musical program
was enjoyed and then the students
retired to their rooms to receive the
parents and guests, who welcomed
the opportunity to go over the entire
building. The gymnasium and
Sophia Bailey Memorial chapel We're
also open to guests at this time, and
the campus was a gay scene with the
company charmingly set off amid the
background of beautiful shrubbery
that adorns the grounds. Parents of
the students. members of the Board
of Managers and friends of the school
were among the guests at the rccep-
ton.
Another event Of the opening week
was the mid week chapel service on
Thursday "a IL p. NJ. Principal Owen
presided and the speaker was Rev. H.
Z. Dunnack of Augusta, who gave a
forceful and inspiring challenge to
the students to live up to the splen-
did traditions of Oak Grove. The
speaker next Wednesday will be Er-
nest Mariner. the newly elected Ii
brarian OF Colby college.
Coach Schneider has had his team
doing some real football already and
the boys are showing a lot of snap in
their practice. The first game will be
played at Nassalboro next Saturday,
with Winslow high school.
The year has opened under most
suspicious circumstances and the
prospects are excellent for the best
year in the history of Oak Grove.
The maximum capacity of the dorm
tory has always been considered as
sixty. but in order to meet the de-
mands of late registrants. extra &C
comodations have been fitted up and
siXty-five boys and girls are now
cared for with several on the waiting
list. One mother who could not Sc
cure rooms for her two sons in the
dormitory has rented rooms in the
village and will live there during the
school year in order that her boys
may attend Oak Grove. The dormi-
tory and day students usually total
about seventy at the opening of the
school year. but there are already
ninety enrolled and a few more will
come in as soon as ARRANGEMENTS can
be made for them. For the first time
in a decade every one of the forty
eight seats on the boys side has been
assigned.
The following students are enroll
ed to date in the entering class: Lew
is Turner, Weeks Mills; Robert Rice,
Columbia, S. c.; John Arnold, Lynn,
Mass; Clarendon Hyde, Augusta;
Harry Smith, Boothbay; Elston Eat
on, Stonington; Tilden Baldwin, New
York City; Lorimer Eaton, Stoning-
ten; Allen Jones, South Vassalboro;
Wendall Austin. South China; Ray
mond Haynes, Lynn. Mass; Coch-
rane Lynch, Brewer; George Mce
Causland, Winsl wv; Gilbert Tooth
aker, Gardiner: Wilbur Smith, Me-
thuen, Mass; Maurice Cannon. Sid
ney; Cony Haskell. South China:
Everett Clifford. China; Kenneth
Marsh, Windsor; John Babb. Wash
ington; Orville Tanner, Sidney; Mar
tina Weed, Tamworth, n. H.. Mar
jorie Bragg, Sidney; Doris Page, Sid
rey; Ruth Walenta, Philadelphia,
Pa; Doris Jones. South China; Mar