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Fourteenth Reunion of the Ohio Deaf-Mute Alumni Association [THE• J^ ^^^^^ OHIOP ^__________________________________________________£_£______________________________^___________________________________________________________________ CHRONICLE *\ ————————- Published by and for the State School for the Deaf. ^^———————————————————————————2_S———————————————————————————-**< VOLVNE XLI1I. COLVMBVS, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 24, 1910. NUMBER 1. able lives and thereby be an example unto the yonuger generation and an honor to the Institution. He thanked the audience for listening so attentively, and closed with the hope that they understood just how he stood. REUNION NOTES . Proceedings in Full of the . Upon Mr. Jones' invitation Miss Elizalwth Fay, daughter of Dr. Gilbert Fourteenth Reunion of the Ohio Otis Fay, took the floor. She said she was glad to come in her father's place. Her father had left the School just thirty years ago yesterday. But though The Columbus Advance Society Deaf-Mute Alumni Association separated from it he never lost his interest in the School and all connected with reated the visitors to ice-cream at sup- it. She herself was born in the school building and had never lost her love for >er Sunday. Held in Columbus September 2, 3 and 4, 1910 her birthplace. Some in the audience she knew, but she loved all whether she W. \V. Hines and his big Regal knew them or not beat ise ot thnr i t Sc.iool. She said sht ive-passenger automobile were a center was glad to meet us aB ;md thanked us tor the warm welcome extended to her. )f attraction. He took a party up to the Home on Saturday. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910. Mayor George S.llarshall was to have given an address at this point, but The e.\]K)sition was not as large as Morning Session. a letter had been recew- d from him in which he said that business in connec­ tion with the local strike situation made his presence absolutely impossible. former ones, still the exhibits were first and fifteen second At fifteen minutes after nine oYl, >; ' ;. I , Ihiy :ivirninj, September 2nd. On behalf of the jx-opl' of Columbus he expressed appreciation of the fact of good. Nineten piemjums were awarded. President \Villinm H. Xorn called the Association to order in the chapel of the the Association holding its meeting in Columbus notwithstanding the disturb­ Institution. ed conditions. He hoji'd the meeting would Ix; pleasant and successful. He All bore the strike in g<xxl humor and "walked" when necessary. They The Rev. Austin \V. Mann opened the meeting with invocation. remarked that if we s<y\i fit to meet again in the city next year, he was sure Un­ President Xorn then introduced Superintendent J. \V. Jones who gave the did not find conditions here so bad as people would IK: able fo give us more pleasant entertainment. they had Ijeen led to ex]>ect. address of welcome. President Zorn made the response to the address of welcome. He s]x>ki The mortgage on the new farm, SUPERINTENDENT JONES' ADDRESS OF WELCOME. of how during the first reunion under Superintendent Jones' management wt which had Ixren cancelled in January, Mr. Jones wel< oined his old pupils and friends most heartily. He an- had felt some uncertainty lx:cause Mr. and Mrs. Jones were strangers to us 1909, was burned at the Home Satur­ nuonced that this very day was the fifteenth anniversary of his election as su­ but said that their intense interest in the welfare of the School and the want day with much rejoicing and speech- perintendent of the School. The end of tlfteen years seems a long way off when welcome they had extndod to us had made us come to love them and look upon making. looking forward, hut when one looks backward, it seems a very short time. Mr. Jones as a father. He called down God's blessings on lx)th of them. Our graduates certainly compare well accomplished He then enumerated changes aliout the School that he had Then followed thr President's address, Miss May Greener reading tin in ap|x'arance, conduct and self-reli­ during those fifteen years. When he first came, pupils were allowed but ten same orally: ance with any other class of people of years in school. Feeling the time was too short, he succeeded in having the our State, and no one need Ix-grudge time extended first to twelve and then to thirteen years. The new fine and THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. the e.\])cnse of training them to such airy school house was built up during his suix-rintendency. It is a building good citizenship at our School. hat all love. Plenty of sunshine and air encourages the children to Higher ef­ Ladies and Gentlemen >l thr O. /). M..1. .1.- fort than the old dark clo.se sch<x>l rooms of former days. That building is his The hour has arrived for the ojx;ning of the Fourtenth Reunion of the dea Louis Bachelxrle was up with sam­ own monument. The new fireproof hospital, costing $.iO,0(X), stands as ; Ohio Deaf-Mute Alumni Association. I take pleasure in calling your attention ples from his "Card Printery," and won Mrs. Jones' monument. She has always taken much interest in caring for the to the fact that the Aso> iation was founded just forty years ago. I request tha a first premium on them in the exposi­ sick. those who participated m the First Reunion of the Association will kindly rise tion. He does his card printing in his The cha|>el, the dining-room, and in fact all of the rooms in the old build­ (Those who rose were Dr. Patterson, Mr. MacGregor, Mr. and Mrs. P.P. Pratt spare* time with a hand press. He has ing have been greatly improved, and all the work has been done by deaf lx>ys. Mrs. A. B. Greener, Mr. \V. H. H. Grigsby, Mr. William Nooner, Mr. Jame a gtxxl line of hand alphalxrt cards. The Legislature of Ohio has always been willing to give Mr. Jones the money N. Gilmore, Mr. John F. Heyl, Mr. Goo. W. Fancher, Mr. Wesley H. Frazier he needed for the various improvements. Never once has he been refused. The Mr. James H. Smith, Mr. Lemen L. Gibson, Mrs. S. H. Kuhn, and Davi< All were glad to have Superintendent salary of every one with one exception has been raised from tim», to time, the Ross. | Only fifteen o.U of the 140 original meml>ers'. You are surely to I Jones with them. This was the fourth one exception Ix'ing Mult of KIr's. Jones. Classes in "art, gymnasium, embroid­ congratulated, and fhuy you live to see and enjoy the golden jubilee of the As Reunion held under his administration, ery, cooking, cabinet work and painting have Iwn added. He now wants to sociation, only ten years hence! and it was the fir>t one he had l>een add photography and china painting and to increase teaching in sign- painting. We have here an opportunity to express our pride in what has l>een accom­ able to Ix.- with us. His presence and A new linotyjx- machine has Ix-en installed in the printing department, plished, to approve the achievements of the past, to continue the policy of al- his addresses in chapel were much ap­ and Mr. Jones said he would IK' willing to let one or two ex-pupils at a time trustic work in connection with the Home for Aged and Infirm Deaf and to preciated. come to the School and learn how Ui work on it. The cabinet department has strengthen the Ixwids of friendship and g(x>d work. The photograph is a novelty, lx»ing turned out handsome chiffoniers and tables and has IHXMI at work on dining- It is my sad duty to announce that since the last Reunion two of the for­ six inches wide and forty-one long. It mer sujxirintendent.s of this Institution have departed from this life. I refer is an excellent picture, and nearly 150 to the Rev. George I.. Weed, 186.MH66, and to the Rev. Gilbert Otis Fay, orders have tat-n received for it. The 1866-1880. Mr. Weed was instrumental in bringing about the construction of price is $1.00, of which fifteen per cent this building. He died in Mt. Airy in 1908. Dr. Fay died in Hartford in goes to the Home. Orders may Ix.- sent February, 1910. To his wise counsels helpful encouragement and strong in­ to Mr. A.W.Ohlemacher at the School fluence our Association is greatly indebted for its formation and establishment for the Deaf. u]xjn a firm basis, and for the privilege of holding our meting- in a place so homelike and rich in associations as this. He was untiring and unselfish in Ray Black had a suit case full of promoting the l>est interests of the deaf of Ohio and of the Association. In printing samples from his shop, the spite of the severance of his connection with our ulntn muter as su|>erintendent Magee Brs' at Piqua, at the Reunion he kept a warm s]H>t in his heart for us to the very last. It is not my intention and some of the printers enjoyed a Uxik to s|>eak hiseulogy, but to suggest that a memorial meeting Ix: held in his honor at them. The editor is sorry he missed here on Sunday evening. them for he lx.-lie.ves they would have We appreciate the kind visit of his daughter F.lizal>eth at this gathering been interesting to him.
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