Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
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was so excellent that it was surprise to
the audience. She gave the members
of the Board picture of how they |
would look in twenty years; all still
living, but only one still on the board I
and that the indefatigable president, e.
d. Jones, who has won the hearts of the |
pupils by his devotion to the interests |
of the school. After complimenting |
the present Board for its progressive /
policy and for our good schools, for |
the schools are as the Board isl she |
said that the innovation of having |
woman on the Board had resulted so |
happily that now, in 1923, one half of |
the members are women and the prinei- |
pal of the high school was also a
woman.
For once, the faculty got its just dues
in Ada Beane's clever poetic response |
to the toast, The Faculty" She said
it was a poem written during her last |
year at school, but kept from the light |
of day through modesty. 1t was highly
enjoyable and took off the characteris-
tics of the faculty in highly entertain
ing spirit.
Jane Slaymaker had the closing asst
High School Days" and did very we'll
indeed, speaking with the fevor and
ease of regular after dinner speaker.
1t was response replete with feeling
incident, wit and good fellowship, and
with its call, Here's to the good old
high school days." the curtain dropped
on prophesy that will long live as one
of the most beautiful pictures on men,
ory's walls.
The Teachers Quartet followed with
Parks beautiful music to Fields "See-
in Things at Night" and sang it so
well that it was with sigh of regret
that the audience realized that this was
the last time this popular quartet would
be heard
Then came the closing essay and
valedictory, ''Climb Tho the Path be
Rugged" by Lily r. Fuenfstueck, the
valedictorian of the class. 1t was alto
gether most fitting close to very
successful commencement, for Miss
Fuenfstueck evidently had a theme that
she loved and give it with ability Es-
pecially marked was her genuine feel
ing over the solemnity of the parting
hour.
To illustra tie the class motto, Climb,
Tho the Path Be Rugged" she had
taken Switzerland as an example
She first described the rugged scenery,
as for instance, Before our rapturous
gaze, many streams, Graded in the
glaciers, often leap boldly thousand
feet over some high precipice and
dash into spray, sway from the fir
clad rocks like transparent wells woven
with all the colors of the rainbow"
After having completed the description
of the scenery, she continued, But
Switzerland possesses not only gran
deur of scenery, but the additional
charm of human interest. Here we
find people whose rugged and sterling
race qualities harmonic with the
natural environments" After showing
how their struggles with nature for
the supply of their daily wants have
greatly increased their strength of
body, brought out their mettle, and
quickened their natural intelligence"
she spoke of the love of liberty inner
ent in the Swiss character and then
as an illustration of their great sacri
fees which this peasantry gladly made
for their freedom and independence,
she took the battle ofSempach in which
Arnold Won Winkslried made himself
famous. She closed with the following
sentence:
AFTER centuries of struggles such as
this, often amidst enormous difficulties
and against appalling odds, always
trusting in God, Switzerland has taken
its place among the great nations of
Europe--a peaceful republic, among
whose mountains the spirit of liberty
shall dwell forever"
Then turning TO her classmates, now
assembled on the stage in all the beauty
and vigor of young manhood and young
womanhood she pronounced the
vALEDICTORY
Dear ClaSsmdtes:-Amid the joys which