The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 251, May 1884, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 884 ~ Fanny Washington's death, like her life, was obscure. She was said to have fallen from a farm wagon and suffered injuries, but other accounts attributed her death to ''consumption of the bowels.'' Writing of her in the early Lagos, BTW concluded: ''Perhaps the way in which Fanny was able to impress her life upon others most was in her extreme neatness in her housekeeping and general work. Nothing was done loosely or carelessly. In this respect, she taught our students many valuable lessons. Her heart was set on making her home an object lesson for those about her, who were so much in need of such help.'' (Twenty-two Years Work, ~77.) A Report of the Triennial Meeting of the Hampton Institute Alumni Association ''Hampton, Va., May 23, 184] The third triennial meeting of the Alumni Association of Hampton Institute, organized in 1878, was held this year, and made a very pleasant addition to the Anniversary exercises. Ninety-seven were present: fifty-four alumni and forty-three alumnae; representing ten States, seventy-nine from Virginia, the rest from N.C., D.C., Penn., Mass., N.Y., Ala., Md., S.C., and Tenn.; and eleven of the ~~ classes which, besides the present one, have been graduated from the Institution. All arrived in time to attend the anniversary exercises, in which five of their number had part as speakers. They lunched together in Virginia Hall as guests of the school, and were received in the evening by the Principal, meeting also their friends among the officers and teachers, but saddened by the fact, which some reamed for the first time, that it would be their last greeting in his official capacity from the friend who had given his Godspeed to every class, the honored Treasurer of the school, Gen. J. F. B. Marshall. The morning of the Dad was occupied by the business meeting of the Association. In the afternoon, a public meeting was held in Whitin chapel, Virginia Hall, and largely attended by the officers and teachers, the class just graduated, and others. The President of the Association, Mr. B. T. Washington, made a feeling and eloquent speech. ''What does this coming together every three years of Hampton's sons and daughters mean? That we love our mother; that we want to bear our share of her burdens, drink fresh of her spirit, keep pace with her progress, keep up our friendship with each other, and accomplish better 251