The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-04
LARGE CLASS is GRADUATED
Great Crowd Attends Closing Exercises
of the Popular Educational Institu-
ton and App1auds the Efforts of
the Members of the Class


large crowd of people. Every seat
in the big auditorium was filled be-
fore the curtain went up and many of
the friends of the graduates were
forced to stand through the exercises.
The crowd and the interest shown
in the exercises was splendid tes-
timonial to the high place held by the
College of Commerce in the hearts of
the people of Kenosha. The decora-
tions of the theatre were the most
elaborate ever arranged for any pub
lie function IN Kenosha. The entire
front of the theatre was mass of
green and yellow and white. The
boxes we're draped in the class colors
of yellow and white, while the stage
was marvel of palms and ferns and
daisies. Over the stage, done in
ferns and daisies, the class flower,
was the class motto, "Ever Upward. :"
The class, the largest ever gradu-
ated from the College, with the mem.
bers OF the faculty, completely filled
the large stage, aud the white of the
young ladies' dresses mingling with
the green of the decorations offered a
picture of rare beauty. The program
was one of uniform excellence and
the young men and women who took
part are entitled to great praise.
The program opened with an over
ture by the Jacoby orchestra, after
which the Rev. Florence Buck, of the
First Unitarian church, offered
prayer.
The first number on the program
was the Salutatory, given by Miss
Margaret zievers. In very charm
ing manner Miss Zievers greeted the
audience on behalf of the class. She
spoke of the class motto and declared
that the ambition to advance must be
the keynote of every successful life.
The Salutatory was we'll written and
delivered in splendid manner.
Lewis NORM, the second member of
the class, spoke on "Providences in
History" He spoke in a forcible
manner of the great part that Divine
Providence had taken in great his
torica1 events. He spoke especially
of the Civil war and Gettysburg. He
traced the slavery movement which
told of the war, picturing the story of
the great battles in strong pen pic
lures. He traced the war to the de-
cisive battle at Gettysburg and the
Providence which saved the Union
army. While the College is not
school of oratory, Mr.. NORM is GER
talnly an orator and he received great
applause as he completed his grafton.
After vocal solo by w. E. Harter,
Miss Elsa Kindt gave the annual class
prophecy. The pictures which Miss
Kindt drew from her horoscope in
Guided pictures of the future of every
member of the class and the fair
speaker called forth many a smile
from the audience by her witty proph-
ecies of the future of her classmates.
'Getting the Right Start" was the
subject of recitation given in a
splendid manner by Harry F. Huff.
Then came the class memorials as
presented by Louise M. Hopf and
Christiana Jorgensen. There was
gift for every member of the class
and each recalled some trait of char
acter of the recipient, or some of
the happy incidents of College life.
AS each gift was presented Miss Eopf
had an interesting little coup1et, and
many of the hits on the mem bers of
the class were so we'll taken that they
evoked rounds of applause. The pre-
sentation of the mementos was one of
the best features of the program.
After avocal solo by Hiss Josephine
Darrin, member of the class, Will
liam Kirk gave the closing number
on the program, IN grafton on the
subject, "Rocks Ahead"
Mr.. Kirk spoke of the perils now
facing the United States govern
ment. Spoke of graft and grafters,
and referred at length to conditions
in San Francisco. of unjust treatment
of employees, of sweat shops, and
child labor, and of troubles between
Capital and Labor. He spoke of the
famous Idaho trial now in progress,
and censured the men who were de-
Tending the men charged with crimes.
He spoke of 1awlessness and the weak
ness of executive officers, and found
the remedy in the election to Office of
men who would insti1l in the minds of
the people tie dignity of the law.
He declared that there was no dan.
ger of too much government in this
country, Ibut not enough of the men
who were willing to sta nd behind the
laws andShelp enforce them.
The entertainment closed with the
presentation of diplomas by Prof.
Otis L. Trenary, the President of the
College. Mr.. Trenary had few
words of advice for the members of
the class after which he conferred
diplomas upon the following members
of the class of 1907:
Business Course-Carl M. Reed.
John N. Fonk, Angelo Cerminara,