BCHS Students of Years Ago Meet - 1946

Bainbridge Central  High School Students

of Years Ago Meet

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 18, 1946

 

 

Front row (LtoR):  Alfred Winston, Lee mills, Louis Stevens, Howard R. Fuller, Sidney R. Bennett, Floyd E. Anderson, Irving D. Tillman and Edwin Jacobson

Back row (LtoR):  Charles H. Peckham, Ward Loomis, Joseph Herrick, Leigh Evans, Vernon F. Hovey, Dr. Ralph H. Loomis, Harold l. Payne

 

A group of men, former students of Bainbridge High School, met Sunday evening, July 7, at DeCumber Hotel, Sidney, for dinner.  The occasion was the revival of the Refugees, a club organized in 1905 by some of the boys on vacation from college and those still here at home.  They met annually for several years at a banquet, then the interests of many took them to homes away and no more meetings were held. 

 

The night of the Old Home Day celebration in 1939 found a group of them assembled on the Central Hotel porch talking over old times till the "wee sma' hours,"  and saying goodbye to each other firmly resolved to meet the next summer, but other affairs, worldwide, diverted their attention, for either they, or their sons, or other members of their families were called into war service.  But two weeks ago, when Lieut. Col. Howard W. Fuller, better known to Bainbridge folks as Dick, came to call on old friends, thoughts reached out to fellows not seen in many years, and a wish was expressed that the Refugees might gather again for an old time conclave.  The wish was no sooner expressed than it was put into action by some of the home men, invitations posted, and prompt answers received, with the result that 16 of them were at the dinner.

 

Sid Bennett, acting as master of ceremonies, called on Vern Hovey, Lee Mills, Dill Tillman, Alf Winston, Dick Fuller and Floyd Anderson, who responded with reminiscences, and a gladness to be able to meet the old gang again, some of whom had not seen one another in 40 years.

 

Messages were received from Clay Wilcox, Ward Redfield, Aug Jacobson, of New York City; Prof. Harry VanCott, of Schenectady; Rex Randall, of Adams; and Earl Westcott of Oneonta, regretting their inability to come and with greetings to all the fellows.

 

It was an unanimous vote that they meet next year and thereafter make it an annual affair.

 

Leon Loomis, Louis Hartmann, Harry Humphrey, Frank Williams, Howard Whitman and Jesse Wicks were spoken of with feeling as five who have died.

 

In attendance were:  Dr. H. Lee Mills, of Burlington, Vt.; Vernon Hovey, of Schenectady; Alfred Winston, of Herkimer; Irving D. Tillman, of Norwich; Dr. Ralph Loomis, of Sidney; Edwin Jacobson, of Sidney; Lieut. Col. Howard W. Fuller, of Binghamton; Senator Floyd Anderson of Binghamton; Sidney Bennett, Joseph E. Herrick, Charles Peckham Perry Teachout, Ward Loomis, Harold Payne, Louis Stevens, Leigh Evans, all of Bainbridge.