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Keystone Gazette June 15 1900, page 8
CLOSING OF THE ACADEMY
Elegant Reception and held Last Friday Night
"On Friday evening the annual reception took place at the Bellefonte Academy and it proved to be one of the most elegant social occasions of the year. The event was especially interesting from the fact that it marked the ending of the thirty-second year of Rev. James P. Hughes principalship of the old historic school on the hill. This week Rev. Hughes left for Princeton College, where he attended the meeting of the Alumni Association, of which he has been a member for the past fifty years.
Several hundred people attended this reception which lasted from 7:30 until 10 o'clock. The campus and the apartments in the interior of the building were beautifully decorated for the occasion and everything passed off very pleasantly. Principal James P. Hughes, his son, Prof. James R. Hughes, the instructors of the institution and a committee of young ladies greeted the guests cordially and everyone was made to feel they welcome and all passed a most pleasant evening. Light and during the whole evening an orchestra under the capable leadership of Christy Smith discoursed delightful music.
The patronesses were Mrs. James R. Hughes, Miss Helen E. Overton, Miss Carrie A. Lawrence, Miss Edith Werts and Mr. Maurice Rubb - the last mentioned from Williamsport.
Friday evening after the reception the members of the Gamma Beta society of the Academy held a farewell banquet at Harrison's ice cream parlors, which proved to be another very interesting event. It was in honor of four of the members who will not return next year to indulge in such delightful festivities with their comrades They are E. Miller and Robert Van Valzah, who will enter Princeton; Steven Van Tassel, who will go to Temple Business College of Philadelphia, and Horace Church, who will enter business life in the City of brotherly love. The other members who sat about the festive board were president Harry Stevens, Frank Cassidy, John McGee, William Phillips and Louis Brosius. Prof. James R. Hughes was present and gave the boys some good and healthy advise."
Democratic Watchman June 22 1900, page 8
AT THE ACADEMY
"Never in the his history of the Bellefonte Academy has it had such a successful or prosperous year at the one just past. The dormitories were full and the work done in all departments was most satisfactory. Indeed it was so satisfactory that before the faculty and scholars separated for the summer vacation the teachers were all re-engaged and many of the pupils registered for next term. It has always been a good school and now it is taking on the proportion of a big school for there are so many scholars that the corps of teachers has had to be increased. Maurice J. Babb, a graduate of Haverford college, who has been teaching mathematics at Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport for the last four years, has been secured to assist Rev. James P. Hughes, the principal, in the science and mathematical department. Miss Lawrence will have charged the girls department and teach English and modern language. She is Miss Julia Reed's successor and in succeeding that excellent teacher had quite a difficult position to fill. Miss Edith B. Wertz has been retained as head of the intermediate school, while the primary department, which has grown and thrived under Miss Overton's capable management until it is one of the successes of the institution, will continue under her care.
Prof. James R. Hughes, head master and teacher of classics, with Mrs. Hughes and Miss Overton are now out camping on the Allegheny mountains eight miles from Beech Creek with a party of their They went Monday to stay ten days or two weeks. With them are Joe and Helen White, Mary Crider, Helen and Roxy Mingle, Jennie Harper and Dick Quigley and Will Merry, of Beech Creek. Mr. James will not spend the summer at Cape May this season, as he has been doing for some years, but is going up into the northwestern part of the State to spend his vacation which began on Monday."
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