The pupils of old Ewing University better known as the "Girls of the '60's" met at the Presbyterian church for their twelfth annual reunion, Thursday September 27, 1917. The morning was cloudy and cool but did not prevent the "Girls" coming although the number was somewhat less than at former meetings.

The time until dinner was announced was spent in greetings and renewing old acquaintances. The dining room was very prettily decorated and the four course dinner was the finest ever.

On returning to the upper room our first Vice President called to order and the following program given:

Address of welcome—Mrs. Collins.
Piano solo—Miss Haner.
Reading of minutes—Mrs. Buckley.
Memorial—Mrs. Gault.
Piano Solo—Miss Haner.
Letters and greetings, Miss Sanburn

Then followed the election of officers as follows:
President—Miss Althea Sanburn.
1st. Vice—Mrs. Kate Pierce Gault.
2d. Vice—Mrs. Ella Cooly Bradshaw.
3rd. Vice—Miss Tillie Peterson.
Treasurer—Mrs. Alice McCracken Harmony.
Secretary—Mrs. Hannah Miles Buckley.

After the election of officers Miss Emma Dryer a Principal of the school for some years, gave a very interesting and instructive talk.

One stanza of "Blest be the Tie that Binds", was then sung and the reunion was over for another year.

ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

On account of the resignation of your chosen president, Mrs. Ferguson, it seems to fall upon me to at least give you a welcome. I accept the position with reluctance, not feeling myself capable, so will just say a few words.

Dear "Girls" of the Sixties—Students of the early days, to you I extend a most hearty welcome on this, our happy reunion day. Let us all be very thankful for this beautiful reunion and the spirit of love and good fellowship which it calls forth.

I feel that I can truly address you as "Girls of the Sixties", for although our school days are only a fading memory and our pulses do not beat as in the sunny time of youth, still new ideas and new interests keep up our girlish enthusiasm and we find in these days old age indefinitely postponed.

As in our girlhood, we are in these days again facing fateful hours. Many days of our youth were spent in troubled times in hearing news of battles, those exciting hours are almost repeating themselves and we have lived to see another cause to be won, more blood must be shed to save our National emblem from dishonor.

Hard as these dark hours seem still we may find comfort in the fact that the darkest hour is just before the dawn and there may dawn the brightest day of all, the day of universal peace.

Death has again entered our midst, but we have the sweet memories of the faces that are gone and blessed assurance for the future, that there will come a time when we will all meet again.

Let us not forget our dear absent girls who are not fortunate enough to be with us today. We have a kind remembrance of each one, and knowing that their thoughts are with us somehow makes us not feel that they are so far away. We send them also our greetings.

And may God bless us always just as he has done in the past.

MEMORIAL.

As once more we greet each other, with welcoming smile and the warm hand-clasp of friendship, we are mindful that since our last reunion, seven of our number have been called to the Higher Life.

Mrs. Mary Woods Jennings passed away on November 2nd, 1916.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carns Barnhart—on November 5th, 1916.
Mrs. Mary Carns Brewer—on January 3rd, 1917.
Mrs. Helen Peck Sanford—on February 7th, 1917.
Eliza Dempsey Parmenter—on April 1st, 1917.
Mrs. Susie Duncan Mount--on April 5th, 1917.
Mrs. Kate Rosenberg Parmenter—on June 6th, 1917.

It is a privilege to voice, in some degree, the esteem in which each one of these good women was held, during her life on earth; and the loving remembrance in which we shall ever hold them, until our work here is finished, and we too, can throw aside the heaviness of earth, to realize the freedom and joy of a spirit of eternal youth.

We feel that each of these, our school-mates, has lived the best life possible, under the varied conditions and circumstances in which their lots were cast; meeting with courageous spirit, the many character forming trials and obstacles that beset lifes' pathway.

No words of eulogy can add luster to the record of a well spent life; each life must speak for its self; and surely, of each of these dear "girls of the sixties" it may be said, "she hath done what she could;" and her lifes' work has been so faithful and earnest, that her fruition is rich and abundant in the beautiful beyond, where we all must reap what we have sown.

As the ill-fated 'Titanic' was sinking, Charles Frohman said to his panic stricken fellow passengers "why be afraid, death is the most beautiful adventure of life."

Believing that to be true, we should not grieve because these friends have passed us, in the line of promotion.

To the families, who are bereft of the loving companionship of our Arisen Sisters, we extend our deepest sympathy.

"Speak thou no sad and long farewell
To the friends who close their eyes in death;
To no far realm they go to dwell
When yielding up their mortal breath.
Nor does soul-love that made earth bright
Falter and fade, grow weak and dim.
On that celestial plane of light
As if twere but a mortal whim.
Nay, that sweet gift, entwining love,
Most precious boon to mortal given,
Is still supreme in realms above—
The purest, noblest joy of heaven.
That impulse, joining soul to soul
In this terrestrial, mortal sphere.
When reaching its immortal goal.
Is tenfold stronger there, than here.
There is no death! what seems so is transition.
This life of mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal, we call death."

We would like to have every letter and every greeting printed but for lack of space. Several of the Girls sent remittances for which we wish to give them a vote of thanks.

SOME OF THE LETTERS.

Dear "Girls of the Sixties"

The annual announcement of the reunion is before me. As I read memory's slate reveals to my vision faces of many of the dear girls who made the old school a very real thing to me. To meet with them on this occasion would be a very sweet experience but I am loath to say it will be impossible for me to do so. So I will just send a loving greeting to all not forgetting the absent ones.
Mrs. Jennie Hunter Mann.

Girls of the Sixties
Greeting:—What pleasure and joy it would give me to be with you today, to look into your faces and hear your voices once more; to exchange the events of the last four years since I was with you and may these wishes find one and all happy and in good health. If it had been at all possible I should have been with you.
Love and best wishes to all.
Mrs. Ellen Harvey Sanburn.

From nearly 10,000 ft in the grand old Rockies I send greeting to the Girls of the 60's hoping the sky may be as blue and the sun as bright on the day of the reunion as it is each day up here.
Mrs. Ada Mann West.

Dear "Girls of the Sixties" To be with you again would be heaps of fun if we are not so many or quite so young.
Mrs. M. Caldwell Runkle.

I send you all my best love and trust we may all live to answer at the next roll call. Affectionately your friend and old schoolmate.
Mrs. Julia Miller Burrows.

The following Girls sent greetings.
Mrs. Lucy Miles Mastin.
Mrs. Kate Hays Barnhart.
Mrs. Ella Bassett McBride.
Mrs. Emma Bassett Woods.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holcomb Shaw.
Mrs. Mary Armstrong Hoyt.
Mrs. Mary Perry Nolan.
Mrs. Libbie Sexton Newton.
Miss Lucy Stevens.
Mrs, Jessie Eliot Burgett.
Miss Mary Bestor.
Miss Eliza McCracken.
Mrs. Ella Whitton Weiss.
Mrs. Lizzie Higgins Carter.
Mrs. Tillie Brewer Marshall.
Mrs. Anna Deal Evans.
Mrs. Sarah Lindsey Charles.

NOTES ON THE REUNION.

A pleasant surprise was in store for the girls as they entered the the church when they saw a beloved teacher Miss Dryer Principal of Ewing University in the Sixties. Only one knew of her coming.

A letter was received from Mrs. Addie Sadler Newkirk expressing regret for not being able to be with us but on her way here as she was visiting a friend a telegram called her to the bedside of a member of her family.

We had the pleasure of welcoming one of the Girls for the first time, Mrs. Lizzie Morey Stout.