The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-27
Class of Twenty-Four Received
Diplomas From Kenosha High
School on Friday Night
vALEOlCT0RY BY MISS zENS
Sa1utatory is Delivered BY Miss Mary
Jackson, While Miss E. K. Kelley
Gives the Class Prophecy
End of EventfuI Year

were held at the Rhode Opera House
Friday evening and surrounded by
their friends and relatives with all the
accomplishments OF the gold COM
mencement season twentyfour young
men and women received their certi-
hcates of graduation from the High
School from the hands of President
w. j. Craney of the Board of Educa-
ton. Seldom has class gone out of
the High School under such suspicious
circumstances and the members of the
class of 1907 may we'll be proud of the
showing that they made in their last
public appearance.
1t was an ideal commencement exer-
else. The rain of the afternoon thin
ned out the crowd SO that the auditor
ium Of the Opera House was we'll fill
Cd without the usual crowding and
the program had been arranged just
long enough to furnish pleasant
evenings entertainment and just
short enough to keep it froml becom-
ing tiresome. The representative of
the class who took part on the pro-
gram did well and there was no drag
ging along so common to commence
ment exercises. There were the usual
flowers for the graduates and the
usual decorations of the Opera House.
The stage was banked with palms
and ferns while done in evergreen
and white over the proscenium arch
was the class motto "Gradatim". The
young women of the Junior class act
ed as flower girls aud distributed
flowers to the members of the class
during the continuance of the exer-
cises.
The exercises opened with an over
ture by the Jacoby orchestra after
which the Rev. Harvey Dee Brown of
the First Baptist Church made the
invocation.
The Salutatory
Miss Mary Elizabeth Jackson was
the first speaker on the program she
having been selected to give the
salutatory. Miss Jackson proved
charming salutatorian and she spoke
on the class motto, "Gradatim" Step
by Step. After welcoming the large
crowd on behalf of the members of
the class Miss Jackson showed that
all great movements had been &C
complished by the slow toiling step
by step. She took up the story of
slavery and told of its introduction
and showed that nation moving step
by step had finally eradicated slavery
after bloody civil war. She spoke
of the liquor traffic and it's growth.
but declared that the business had
reached its climax and that step by
step the American people would break
down the liquor traffic just as it had
solved the slavery question. She
spoke of education and showed the
development of the great educational
movement in the nation from the few
scattered school houses along the
New England Coast until at the pre-
sent time every cross road in the
country has its school house and every
city and village has it's high school.
She drew lesson from these step by
step movements in the nation and
urged the members Of the class tn
seek the highest advancement "step
by step.
Miss Myra Florence Grifin was the
next speaker on the program and
speaking from the subject "What
England Has Done for Egypt" Miss
Griffin gave splendid presentation
of the conditions that existed in.
Egypt before the coming of.the Eng
lish twenty-six years ago and showed
the great progress that had been
made in Egypt underline rule of the
English. She showed the conditions
that had forced the English people to
assume the control of the government
Of Egypt and showed THAT oy strict
economy in the management of
political affairs and in develop
ment of the great natural resources of
the country the English occupancy
brought Egypt to its highest financial
development. Miss Griffin paid high
tribute to the sterling worth of the
English authorities that had handled
the affairs of Egypt nd.predicted for
the country even greater develop
ment.
Preservation of Forests
There was practical story told by
Miss Minnie Larsen, the next speaker
on the program, who made z strong
plea for the preservation of American
forests. She urged that all people
unite with the societies now working
for the preservation of the forests and
aid in the great work. Miss Larsen
showed the great value fof the forests
Ia preventing floods and the great
usefulness of lumber in all of the
great industries of the nation. She
showed that the forest fires had
destroyed almost as many of the
forests as the ak Of the lumberman.
In urging the protection of forests
Miss Larsen declared that this was a
sacrifice which posterity demanded
from the present generation. Her
GRAFTON was splendidly written and
well delivered.
Miss Myrtle v. Kiehl, the next