The first student to step on to the National Farm School campus when it was an undeveloped tract thirty-two years ago, returned for the annual reunion of the Farm School Alumni Association held at the school this week-end. He is Joseph Goldman of Rockford. Ill., who returned for the first time since 1901, when he and five other students were graduated.
The institution now accommodates nearly 200 students and has 1,200 acres of rich farming soil.
Four hundred graduates of the school attended the reunion. Services were held in the Krauskopf Memorial Library, in memory of the founder of the school, Dr. Joseph Krauskopf. The dedication of the alumni grandstand on the alumni athletic field, their gift to the school, in memory of Dr. J. Ludwig Stern of New York, was a feature of the three-day event.
At the annual business meeting, the following were elected to office: president, Isaac Stern. New York; vice-presidents, Carl Kahn, Chicago, and Edgar Hecsh, Philadelphia; secretary and treasurer, Samuel B. Samuels.
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