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Denney.

ACKWORTH

OLD SCHOLARS'

ASSOCIATION.

REPORT OF

INAUGURAL MEETING.

WITH AN ACCOUNT APPENDED

OF THE

SCHOOL YEAR, 1881-2.

DARLINGTON:

HARRISON PENNEY, CROWN STREET PRINTING WORKS.

1882.

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LF195 A31 A3 1881-1890

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY

Dec 21,1935

DEAR FRIEND,

At the General Meeting of 1881, a proposal was brought forward by William Coor Parker, to form an Old Scholars' Association for Ackworth School. The subject was warmly taken up by the General Meeting, and the following were appointed an Executive Committee, empowered to form such an Association:-Mary Caroline Pumphrey, Mary Ann Euitt, Eliza Pickard, Henry Thompson, Thomas Pumphrey, W. C. Parker, Fredk. Andrews, William Harvey, Charles Brady, Ceorgo Simpson, John William Graham.

That Committee thought its first duty should be to collect opinions from Friends up and down the country, as to whether such an Association was desirable. Favourable replies were received in nearly all cases, among others from the following Friends: Wm. G. Norris, Coalbrookdale; Jos. Simpson, Mayfield; Charles Thompson, Penrith; W. E. Turner, Liverpool; Edw. West, Bradford; Saml. Fothergill, Darlington; Arthur Clark, Exeter; Smith Harrison, London; Walter Wilson, Hawick; F. W. Follows, Manchester; Joseph Jesper, Preston; Alf. Kitching, Hull; H. Armitage, Hull; Richard Shackleton, Blackburn; James Thompson, Kendal; J. S. Wood, Nyborg, Denmark; John Taylor, Coringa Park, India; Robert Smeal, Glasgow; Martin Lidbetter, Wigton; Wm. Dodshon, Stockton; R. Barringer, Mansfield; Thomas Emmott, Oldham; Arthur T. Palmer, Wilmslow; Henry Tennant, Scarborough; Alfred Wright, Pimlico, London; with many others.

Thus encouraged, a Meeting, preceded by a Tea, was held in the Reading Room on the Third Day evening before the General Meeting of 1882. All old scholars were invited; about one hundred attended, and the proceedings were enthusiastic throughout. We append a Report of the Meeting, from which thou wilt gather what are the objects of the Association.

REPORT OF MEETING.

JOSEPH SIMPSON, of Mayfield, was called to the CHAIR, and in his opening remarks said that it had been felt by the Committee that very general enquiry was necessary before they could take the responsibility of launching an Old Scholars' Association, and that it would not be worth while to have one at all unless it received general support, and could be carried on with spirit. He called upon

GEORGE BAKER, of York, as joint Secretary with Mary C. Pumphrey to the Committee of Formation, who gave an account of what that Committee had done.

HENRY THOMPSON read one or two letters of approval which had been received: one from the venerable Walter Wilson, of Hawick, and an enthusiastic one from F. W. Follows.

WM. COOR PARKER moved the first resolution :-" That an Ackworth Old Scholars' Association be formed, with the object of cherishing kindly feeling among old scholars, and of promoting their welfare, and that of those still at school."

He felt so strongly on this subject that he was afraid that very fact might prevent him speaking on it so well as he might if he had been more indifferent. What we wanted was a focus to which we might bring all the feelings of loyalty and comradeship which we felt more or less indefinitely, so that they might bear fruit. He did not wish us to turn into a Mutual Admiration Society, but thought that a little help and advice might often be given at our annual meetings, to younger ones to enter into fields of useful effort, and to older ones to persevere therein. The Committee preferred that suggestions as to what shape our efforts should take should arise from the meeting rather than be dictated by the

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