Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-15
TOWNSHEND
Commencement Week at Leland
& Gray Seminary
Prize Speaking, Concert, Graduating Ex-
erclses, Trustees Meeting and the Glass
Retention,


erclses, Trustees Meeting and the Glass
Reception.
The real entertainment part of the
program began Wednesday night with
the prize speaking contest. well filled
hall greeted the speakers and the even
ing proved to be one OF enjoyment.
Those participating In the contest gave
evidence of having put In good, serious
work on their part and painstaking
effort by the teacher Of elocution, Miss
| Sharp. Miss Nellie Dale was successful
in winning first prize, So, and Miss
Hazel Taft second SO. Miss Alice Ware
had honorable mention, she having the
record of the most rapid progress Of any
during the few weeks OF training While
all entering a contest cannot expect to
| win a prize, the fact that the training
! thus gained is invaluable should not be
lost sight of and a stimulus to higher
effort should be created. The judges Of
| the prize speaking were Col OsgOOd and
Rev Mr.. Pratt of Bellows Falls and
| Principal Edgar Burr Smith of Brattleboro
| high school.
Thursday morning only one thing re-
| garding class day seemed certain and
| that, no matter what the clouded skies
| had in store, the program which had
been so carefully planned should not in
any way be cut short. so to make sure
| of this, IL was decided to hold the exer-
| cises in the seminary hail. instead Of on
the common as planned The following
program was carried out in a very enter
tanning way:
Class history, Gerald Allbee.
Glass WILL Miss Olive Pierce.
Class prophecy, Ned Wyman.
| Class flower. Miss Alice Dale.
| Address to undergraduates,
Miss Abbie Adams
Presentation OF gift, Miss Ethel Follett.
The gift of the class Of 06 was a bust
OF Shakspere. Principal Lewis, in
few well chosen words accepted the gift
for the school. This closed the program
proper, but the common was not to be
left out entirely on this occasion. and Il
was found to be an excellent plan to
promote sociability aided by the dis
pensing Of ten gallons OF ice cream
Thursday evening was one Of relaxation
to teachers and students VINO for several
weeks previous TO this time had been
under considerable mental strain. The
program afforded an entertainment
varied from those OF previous years.
Mr.. Kendall, impersonator. on introducing
himself as substitute for Mr.. Poland, en-
gagged for this date. but on account OF
death in his family unable to be present.
mentioned that such an announcement
was like n wet blanket" to the pro-
gram, but people are yet trying to dis
cover where the wet blanket came In.
but no one missed anything from the
program, and not 10 laugh was simply an
impossibility with the majority One
young lad began at the first and laughed
straight through the evening and lady
| of considerable dignity announced that she
awoke in the night and laughed Mr..
Kendall in How the Old Man Sewed on
a Button" though impersonated by action
alone. was irresistible and nothing was
left uncertain but the color of the thread,
while 1.-The Postal Card" gave him oppor-
tunity for the passion and pathos OF
human life.
Miss Phinney was welcome from the
first and played the harp with much ex-
preston. She was given an encore after
each selection and generously responded
/ with sweet old familiar hymns and mel
E odies.
t Friday at 10 a. M. graduating exsr.
cises were held in the Baptist church
with the following program:
Scripture reading and prayer.
Prof Lewis
Salutatory. The Modern Sir Galahad.
? Florence Ethel Toilet
I Determination Is Success,
Abbie Nellie Adams
l The Growth of Invention
( Gerald Moar Allbe
4 Pathology. Olive Belle Pierre
:. our Responsibility as Nation,
Ned Winfield Wymal
h Valedictory, Music in Peace and War.
|. Alice Franklin Dial
= Glass motto was "Spectemur Angendo;
= class flower, white rose. Following ar
h the graduates with courses OF study
J, Latin scientific-Florence Ethel Follett
Abbie Nellie Adams. Alice Franklin Dale
t English-Olive Belle Pierce, Ned Win
e field Wyman, Gerald Moar Allbee.
J., Miss Follett in her salutatory paid hig
e tribute to President Roosevelt, and sal
= 1T II not necessary to be the Presiden
$ OF the United States to be a Galahad, bu
r it is necessary to have those qualities $
s moulded together that a character
$ formed, not like the sunhower, turne
e about by the suns and winds of publ
0 opinion, but like the mountain, strong an
great, and grand in tempest and in sun
shine, and which will stand through a
= eternity"
/ fectly at home in her subject and made
= very charming by the interspersing c
a snatches OF hymns and sweet old songs
y The diplomas were given by DR.. II. 1
Il Holton, president of the board OF trustees
who spoke of his interest in the schoC
4 and Of his pleasure in performing tina
= duty.
~ Prof. Lewis in few remarks spoke
the three stages of life and of educatio
~, as the power of bringing out the soul
e The music for graduation was furnishe
u by Leitsinger's orchestra OF four piece
y from Brattleboro. Immediately after tn
II exercises in the church the alumni bar
e quet was held at Townshend Inn, {
a sitting TO the spread, fit for - wei
u almost anybody.
y The POSTMASTER was DR.. II. d. Ho
: ton and these sentiments were responde
D. to: odd School Days" Mrs. Plumb; "Ol
: Kindergarten Alumni" Ethel Toilet
e Aspirations of Trustees" Dr. F. L. Os
:, good; The Girls of L. G. S." letter rea
Is from Judge Waterman by Mrs. o. v
FolletJ; The Needs of Leland & Ora
s. Seminary" Prof Lewis
/ During the afternoon the alumni NEE
lie ing was held and officers chosen as 70
e, lows President, c. II. Willard; vice pre-:
/. !; ThnIIc0nhc nf