Word: reunioner
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Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
...Mellon enterprises - principally Alcoa, Carborundum Co., Koppers Co. and Gulf Oil. His duties as president of the National Gallery and director of the Bollingen Foundation (grants to scholars in the humanities) and the Old Dominion Foundation (education, the arts, mental health and conservation) seemed more imperative than any family reunion...
Before long, Dunfey inns will have another feature. In August, when the entire 13-member clan jets to Dublin for a reunion on the ould sod, the family plans to recruit local barmaid talent to staff "Dunfey's Taverns," being set up in the family establishments...
...football team started the season with impressive trouncings of Lafayette and Boston University and then continued its winning ways in the League against Columbia and Cornell. As in so many years past, the reunion-day game with Dartmouth loomed as pivotal in the Ivy race...
...CRIMSON described the occasion in words that might again serve the Class of '18 on its fiftieth reunion: "Class Day, war or no war, is a time for rejoicing. It is the day of reunions, of confetti, of lantern lights, of beautiful girls,--it is, above all, the one day when eveerybody should be happy...