Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-06-14
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COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
One of the Best and Largest Classes Ever
Graduated.
The fifteenth annual commencement
exercises of the Audubon High School
were held in the Presbyterian church,
Thursday night June Z. The class
was one of the strongest ever sent out.
AS they sat on the platform in semi
circle their motto above them, lettered
in their chosen colors, light blue and
garnet, the great American beauty the
only flower to be seen, they seemed the
embodiment of youthful vigor and
ambition. The school board on the
right looked their pride in so large
class, while Prof. Hooker with his able
assistants Miss Harriet BilhaZ, the
principal and Miss Dora Larson the
assistant principal seemed confident
that they were turning to the world
class that was a credit to their hard
work and to the school. A noticeable
feature was the large number of boys
finishing the course. A former pres
ident of the board in an address not
= long ago to an audience, stated with
pride that the boys who had formerly
graduated from our schools all now
held positions of trust and responsible
ity, and were never seen loafing on
the street putting vile cigarette,
while many who had dropped out
were to be found among this kind.
The inspiration of a completed course
in good high school, such as we have,
gives momentum to the individual
that does not die in day. The lessons
that our teachers give are impressions
we'll defined into an ambition to go on
and up. They realize the power of
education, strength in weakness,
yelled power, the star in the mist
guiding, reckoning, drawing upward"
Education is the touchstone that turns
mans thoughts in upon himself only
to send him reeling onward to greater
things where in the consciousness of
power he stands erect in all his nobler
instincts to face a groveling stagnant
world.
This class must soon enter upon
the, to them, untried world, but if the
lessons taught have done their work
they have caught the scent of future
struggles. The noblest thing yet is to
and privations knowingin ones secret
heart that these are angels in disguise;
to bravely, nobly, joyfully fight lifes
battles as they come; to inhale like a
bracing atmosphere the inspiration of
purpose enthroned in the soul; and
finally, in the fulness of manhood and
in womanhood in its finest concep-
ton to gradually emerge from creek and
shoal, free and independent, out upon
the high seas of life, with their craft
small but seaworthy, their iron will
for rudder to when it readily re-
spends; their mature judgement for a
compass, the horizon of their pos
sibllities broad as the curves of the
earth; their freedom only limited by
the shores of the ocean. This is what
their teachers have striven for and
their motto, "Nothing but something"
teaches.
The music was given by the boys
and girls glee clubs under the able di-
-Irection of Mrs. Carmichael.
LAVISH oyERHoLTZER
as salutatorian, spoke with her usual
strong matured personality on ''You and l.
She beautifully spoke of the strength OF
strength and power, and with vividness
held forth the nobeness of the man or the
woman Who in all forgetfulness of self, reaches
out to lift, ennoble and sustain those about
Turning to sefishness she gave no quarter to
the force of the present age that seeks to draw
all persons into the malestrom of self interest
self purpose self greed. In glowing aud elo
quent terms she sighted her hearers to noble
lives in the past who had laid the marble rock
upon which great civilization has been
built. She told how our actions affected not
only ourselves, but with the power of circum-
stances were forced upon everyone and whether
good or bad would affect all. Then after pay.
ing beautiful tribute to our own America,with
the hand of purity pointing to the master ex-
ample, deity itself, she closed her talk leaving a
strong impression on her hearers.
HARVEY A. DELAHOYDE
stepped forth in a manly manner and
in a style free from embarrassment, told
how creations swung into existance and
by the immutable laws of nature kept Their
trackless paths to the tmepiece of divinity
The, Importance ofPunctuality" is necessary
to the success of every individual He who
pursues his way through life with no compass
to guide no rudder to keep his course must in
evitably fail. He told how all the trades and
avocations of life are necessary, but polntedy
showed that he who succeeded, who lowered
as a giant among his fellow man, whether be
hind the counter, at the desk, in the halls OF
legislature or the humber walks of life was the
man who was methodical, punctual and always
on time. Turning to the past he showed how
battles had been lost and banners trampled
beneath the feet of the victorious foe, because
men'had not been time. Punctuality is the
loadstone that leads men to success, greatness
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