Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-06-01
Seventh Annual
Commencement
Clsses q Successful Year Il the nigh
Scsssl sf Rocky Fsri.

Rocky Ford has always taken great
pride in her public schools, and has been
fortunate year after year in having n
board of directors who gave much tirnc
nnd careful study to the wants OF the
school and to providing competent fac
nifty. The result hns been steady pro.
grcss aud today tho Rocky Ford schools
rank second TO none in this portion of
state.
The series of events incident to Com
mcnccmcnt week Of the Rocky Ford High
school opened with the.
Class bay Program.
Friday afternoon. Tho exercises opened
with vocal solo by Miss Stcidlcy.
Fred ki.nzey's orntion.
Night Brings out the Stars,
Dealt with the lights and shadows
which are inevitable in all lives. We
make the following extracts.
There may be traced through the whole
creation. a quality Of which the antipodcs
day and night, light ind darkness, are
the types, II seems to have been the plum
that there should be constant struggle
between two opposing elements. That
life should exist only at the expense OF
life and that death should be its oppon.
ent. Nlan himself was created with this
dual nature. He is material and imma.
terinl. He il earthly and he is spiritual.
Take Lincoln aud Garfield and Grant,
three Of Americas great men. Each
had night, q dark untutored youth
which brought out his real character and
made him shine in manhood like "a gold
A. 4. T. A. ss,
the lives OF these men 30. literally, n
night precedes each day and the darker
the night the brighter the stars brought
out by it.
Miss Grace Babcock's essny wns entitled,
The Rise and Progress Of Civil and
Religious Liberty.
The eesay was largely historical, re.
the earliest days The progress Of the
centuries reached most important phase
in the new world us indicated in the fol-
lowing extracts:
In Plymouth harbor on that bleak
November day. in 1920. surrounded by
the prineval forests, the savage redman,
and the beasts OF prey, in deep solemnity
and the fear of God they entered into
u sOltthIl thc hibe SpuStHuti VI
modern times aud the first Declaration OF
American Independence.
But no sooner had the bud opened in
the wilderness and the colonies begun to
assert their natural rights than the hand
Of oppression was laid heavily upon them
and their bright dream of civil liberty
was suddenly dispelled. Manufactures
and commerce were discouraged, and op-
pressive taxes were imposed by assem-
blies in which the colonies were not rep
resented.
The oppressive hand was laid so heav-
lily upon them that it drove them to the
Continental Congress, the Revolution
and finally to the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence. 1t was through the struggles,
trials and sufferings of those brave ances-
tors that we are the nation we are today.
The Class Poem
BY Miss Alta Barker contained the
following strictly personal stanzas:
In another fair one of our number
Are sweetness and dignity rolled:
Her talent Is one Nature gives to the blest.
Nature made her, then broke the mould.
And her namo-sake, good naturcd and jolly
She's a fayorite. with young and with old !;
She's Just full Of jokes, and Of good natured
wit,
or envy or jealousy, hasn't a bit;
She's well worth her weight In gold.
There's one whom surely can't pass;