The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-02


ditors.
Owing to the absence of Fred Riet
brock, who was to have responded to
The Early DAYS." that toast was
omitted, and Miss Lille Runals sang
two charming little songs in her own
graceful and accomplished style, re-
ceiving much applause.
In response TO the toast Good
Schools Make Good Men," Mayor
Charles Pfennig spoke in laudation of
the public schools Of Kenosha, men
tioning with pride the men turned out
fluence they exerted on the life of the
community. "Good schools, = said the
speaker, "make good men, and it is
equally true that good men make good
schools, the two being as indissolubly
connected as the light with day, and
both being necessary for the highest
happiness of which existence is ca
pable."
Among the most pleasing of the
afternoons speeches was that of Mrs.
Lille Burgess Lewis, who, in response
to ''The Heroic Age Of the Kenosha
High School," recited many incidents
from the lives of her schoolmates-in-
cidents that stamped the boys of that
day as worthy to be classed with the
heroes of old, with Achilles,
Richard Occur de LioL and Bayard.
These "reminiscences aroused the en-
thusiasm of the younger generation,
who, perhaps, had been bemoaning
the by-gone days of chivalry and leg
endary heroism, but were now aroused
to see the grand possibilities in the
every day life of High School pupil.
But if the days of Mrs. Lewis were
the "heroic" age, Miss Lulu Rowbot-
tom showed that the "recent years"
were the responsible age. In short
sketch with well-rounded periods she
reviewed the deeds of those who had
been graduated in former years. and
exhorted those who had gone but re-
Gently from the High school to emu
late what had been done previously
and to preserve the reputation of the
institution by high resolve and worthy
action.
That the class of 1903 intends to
equal, and perhaps outstrip, other
classes in the race of life was the theme
of the response by Richard P. Cava-
nagh, who certainly deserves the
thanks of his classmates for the credit.
able representation that he made for
them through his easy and bright
style, and that, too, before so many
older and more experienced speakers.
Howard VanWyck, of Milwaukee,
had to say something about "Boys and
Girls That | Knew" He evidently
knew girls enough in those days, and
recalled many happy hours that he had
spent In strolling up and down the old
| walk" with his "sweethearts." He
earnestly recommended that if that
walk had disappeared the Board should
take steps to reconstruct it, or to pro-
vide some other resort which boys and
girls may frequent in their spare
hours, for it is with those tender me-
anderings that most of the delightful
memories of youth are associated.
When the formal part of the pro-
gram was concluded the toastmaster
called on several speakers who re-
sponded readily to the invitation.
Among them were w. ]. English,
w. A. L. Gibbon, Senator Ouarles,
Louis Rahr, Mrs. Mary D. Bradford,
Mrs. ]. McMynn and Martina Errick-
son.
No meeting connected with the
| schools of Kenosha could be regarded
as complete unless Senator Joseph v.
Quarles were present, and his presence
implies speech. Soon after the inn
promptu speeches began there were
calls for him, but he had an under.
standing with his brother that he
should not be called upon, and in ac-
cordance with that agreement, Mr..
Charles Quarles, to crafty the audi
ence and at the same time to keep the
pact with the Senator, Withdrew, and
| the new incumbent called on Senator
| Quarles who spoke accepta bly, as he
always does to Kenosha audience
dwelling chiefly on the fact that the
first school in Kenosha was not spoken
of in any other way than as the Free
School, the school that was free to all,
the school in which was taught the
living lessons of freedom and love of
country ia which such freedom could
exist. 1t was for this those early pio-
neers had 1abored; it is for this free
dom that the school OF today is striv
ing-equal opportunities for every
pupil.
There is nothing more touching
than the gratuitous tribute of wife to
husbandsor of a husband to a wife,
and when Mrs. McMynn spoke of the
closing years of Col. J. G. McMynn,
describings.the love he found among
books and old friends gathered in his
library her words struck a chord CT
sympathy.sin the hearts of those who
listened to her praise on the old school
master so dear to all who we're privi-
legged to be his pupils. She had some
thing to say about one who for years
was known to every one in Kenosha
and she said it we'll and pracaful1v