Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-22

teaching children of the Christian4faith.
AID teachers of the Christian faith are
imparting knowledge to children of the
Jewish faith, all forming a beautiful
nnd harmonious whole, thus showing
that While our people may differ in reli-
gious creed and politics, they do not diff
fer upon the great and all important
question of the education of the masses.
No man since these schools We're estab-
l1shed has ever been elected to high Of
flee in this city who was not in sympa-
thy with her public sehoois-noe man can
ever be, whether he be republican, dem
ocrat or popuHst.
There are many honored 1famesscon-
nected with the growth and advancement
of our public schools, and l wish l could
mention them all | might some legis-
lators, in fact all of them. There is Hon.
M. V. Henry, whose thought and study
found a way to amend our school fund
by levying an equitable county tax; and
there is that broad-minded Irish Catho-
lc who yields to no man in love for his
county, his state and his people, Frank
L. o BIlen, who successfully and against
numerous hindrances, at the last session
F of the legislature, engineered through a
tax bill which placed these schools be-
yond a present danger line. While these
few names deserve high. mention, there
are many others who should be listed
but none higher on the list than the peo-
port there could be no public schools
Again, congratulate you.
Young ladies and gentlemen, in closing
my remarks bid you 'godspeed on your
way. That way no human eye can see,
no human tongue foretell, but a human
heart can hope, and l hope for each one
of you that as your morning has been
mild and fair and sunny your meridian
Of manhood and womanhood may blaze
with power and with glory, lighting and
blessing hemisphere of influence; and
then as your midday merges into mellow
evening, as your sun begins to sink along
the western arch toward the horizon of
life Qor even suns must seO and as the
long arms of the shadows draw you to
the bosom of deaths night, oh, may those
who knew you in the mldness of your
morn and blessed you for the splendor
of your noon, linger and with fondling
eyes still 1inger on the glorious last
scenes of your llves-the sunset scenes
of memory of your deeds and your desert
come out in the sky to light up the dark
ness and the gloom Of the sorrow you
leave behind you. #a
superintendent ]. H. Phillips
then addressed the graduating class in
few terse, but eloquent, remarks, Such as
he is capable of using on occasions ike
the one at hand. He then distributed
the well earned diplomas to the follow
ing young ladies and gentlemen:
John William Altman, Elyira Cook
Lewis. Eyenora Bentley Mckee, Estelle
Bushnell Turner, Lillian Roden, Henry
Joseph Burney, Florence Estelle Rumph,
Sudie Simpson Bates, Eleanor Woods
Castleman, Aileen Gotten, Margaret
Branch Donelson, Sallie Wallace Duke,
Jessie Rolinha Ezell, Lula Reese john
ston, Carlese Elizabeth Lewis, Grace
Leon Loventhal, Ellen Elizabeth Nc
Knight, Maud Alice Minis, Elise Minor,
jamie Morton Moore, Maude Sears New
ton, Mary Crenshaw Reese, Ethel Han
sell Sharpe, Mary Edith Smith, Maliza
Colgan Moore, Addie Linton Norton,
Mary Hammond Shot, Elizabeth Chilly
Snyder, Ethel Marie Woods.
Commercial graduates-Robert Ely
Cooper, Elizabeth Nash Johnston, Allie
S. Loventhal. ,ss.s<-...,,,.-
The class song, a beautiful compost
ton, was then rendered. AS an intro
ductory Miss Aileen Gotten sang solo,
Leaving the Nest" which was followed
by the class Goodbye"
Rev. b. d. Gray of the First Baptist
church dismissed the audience with a
beautiful benediction.
Thus closed the twelfth annual COM
mencement of the Birmingham High
school.