Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-16
GOOD WILL
Directors Meeting.

At the meeting of the Directors of
the Good VIII Home Association held
in the Staff Room of the Adminfstra-
ton. Building, Friday morning, Presi-
dent c. /. Bailey presided at the
morning session, and G.. w. Hinck-
ley, chairman of the Board, in the
afternoon. w. w. Drew of Stamford,
Conn, who was elected director at
the annual meeting in June. was In
troduced, as this was his first meet
ing with the board. Mr.. Drew is
native of Starks, Maine, graduate
Of Good Will High school and of
Colby College. He Is engaged In
Real Estate business.
The directors were informed that
the water system, aside from sec
ton across Marten Stream, connect
ing the Boys and Girls Farm which
cannot be laid until the bridge now
being build is nearing completion,
is finished and the workers were just
being paid off.
The directors. by formal vote, ac-
cepted the anonymous gift of a
school building for girls, for which
ground has already been broken.
Report on the problem of rebuilding
of the Ryerson Building, lost by fire
last spring was considered and archi-
-tects plans were examined. This
structure which when destroyed by
fire. was thought could not be rebuilt
will be replaced next summer. Much
interest was shown in an architects
drawing of the coveted High school
building. A friend of Good Will had
employed an architect to make a pic
ture of it which had been hung in the
corridor of the Administration build
ing. With the Girls school building
provided and to be dedicated within
a year, and the replacing of the Ry-
erson building next summer assured,
the high school building may ma
terialize almost any time now be-
cause the Moody building where the
Boys Grammar school and the High
school are housed is becoming
crowded; someone will come forward
and offer to build it.
The John Francis Sprague library
of about two thousand volumes,
which was bequeathed to the Good
Will Home Association by the late
John Francis Sprague, editor of the
Spfague's Journal of History, has
just been transferred from Dover
Foxcfoft to Good Will, but 1t will be
several months before it can be fully
indexed and available for use.
The Museum at Good Will has nu-
cleus of Indian relics to which addi-
tons are made from time to time.
There is an ambition at Good VIII to
make this collection as complete and
instructive as possible, and a fine ad-
ditfon to it has just been made by
Miss Sarah ]. Clarke of Norridge-
wock. This recent increase in that
department of the Museum consists
or about three dozen specimens rang
ing from arrowheads to axes, plum
NETS, net sinkers and game stones.
DIR. G. G. Averill and Mrs. Averill
of Waterville were present at the
opening exercises of the Good VIII
High school and the Boys Grammar
school. Friday morning, although DR..
Averill has been a director of the AS
ISOLATION for several years, this was
the first time that he had been pres
ent at morning chapel. Under the
leadership of John Farraday, official
cheer leader of the high school. the
visitors were accorded q rousing re-
ception.
preparations are IN progress In all
the cottages for Good Wills annual
Home Night" which comes Oh
thanksgiving evening, when, In
prescott hall, the IA families of
young people at Good viii vie with
each other in an attempt to put on
the best stunt of the evening and
cheer the Qoudest for their own cot
tage. Home night at Good Will is a
tlme honored and unique occasion. 1t
cannot be opened to the public in
general but any friends of Good viii
who are especially interested in the
work can obtain sittings for the
evening by arranging with the Good
VIII office any time previous to noon
on Thanksgiving Day.