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Show BID DAY AT WEBER ACADEMY BEING OBSERVED Today is Alumni day at the Weber academy and the big "doings" started start-ed at 0 this morning with a meeting of the student body and the Alumni association The affair was presided over by President Peter Kasius of the Alumni association Lorenzo Richards, president of tho student body, in a neat address, wel corned former students to the school, saving that thoy had In years past worked for the upbuilding of the school In all of its different departments depart-ments and hoped that the present student bodv would work as hard as they had done to make Weber the foremost high school In the state. The response was made bv President Pres-ident Kasius, who said that he and the association appreciated the weV come of the representative of the student body and said that the purpose pur-pose of the day was to bring the students of the past and those of the present into a closer bond of common Interest He also said that the Alumni Alum-ni association is and had always been deeply interested in the growth of their alma mater. His talk waB followed by the rendition ren-dition of a pleasing piano solo and encore by Miss Beatrice Brewer of tho class of '11 Clyde Lindsay of the class of '04 was theo introduced and he told of former das at the academv. when they had only the old building In which to do all their class work. The only perrons present with whom he had associated, he said, were Pro fessors Ballantyne Terry and LInd 1 and the memory of the old days were very dear to him. He spoke In particular par-ticular about the Acorn," the school periodical of which he was the first manager. He said that the name had been suggested to him by David O. McKay, who was the principal at the time and that it been unanimously adopted. The name, he continued, had a special significance in that it meant a "small beginning with great possibilities" and so had the magazine progressed from a little lit-tle paper of eighteen pages to one at the present time of 75 pages put up in a manner that the school might well he proud of The first "Acorn" staff Included Mr Lindeay. Miss Lizzie Liz-zie McKay. Joseph Stlmpson and An gun Berlin William M. McKay "Billy" followed fol-lowed with a talk on the athletic progress pro-gress of the school, from the time when the basketball team practlde In the old Lester park pavilion, then in the Parry building and later in the Royal dancing academy, to the present time, and he hoped to see the team in the near future doing their athletic work in a gymnasium that would meet all of Its requirements. require-ments. Lawrence Greonwell was next on the program and sang in answer the song "Goodebve" and in answer to encore calls. ' Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes." Lawrence Richards spoke briefly on the subject of "After Weber; What Next?" urging the students to be ambitious, but to never lose their interest in the school or forget the benefits they had received therefrom Probablv the best received numbers num-bers on the program were the readings read-ings of Miss Lila Eccbs. two of them as encores They were. The One-legged One-legged Goose," "The Tenor " by Bun-ner Bun-ner and Riley'H "Bear Story" " Tonight at the school there will he a big basketball game between the Alumnus and the Webr teams, which will he followed by a reception. recep-tion. ru-i |