The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-01
OUT IN The WORLD
Seventy Five High School Stu
dents Graduate.
Large Audience Greets The m at
the Auditorium.
HERO ON PLATFORM
He Summarily DispOses of an
Offensive Canine.
Rev. w. f. Anderson Delivers
Address to the Glass.

class of 1907 of the Topeka high
school were held last night in the au-
ditorium. This class numbered sew
enty-fve, and as is usually the case
the girls outnumbered the boys, there
being forty-three girls in the class and
thirty-two boys. And to a young girl.
Miss Margaret Welcome. went the ex-
ceedingly high honor of ranking first
in this large class. Dividing the hon
ors of second rank were Miss Florence
Ruth White, Miss Alice Edna Skinner
and Karl V. Davidson
An audience of unusual size, COM
prising the relatives and friends of the
| graduates, was present at the exercises
to attest by their presence and with
applause whenever the opportunity
| presented itself their appreciation of
the efforts of the graduates in the ac-
| complishment of four years of rather
arduouS study.
was presented to this audience by the
! graduates when they marched through
! the aisles of the building and took
seats on the stage. To music on the
pipe organ. at which W. F. Roehr pre-
sided. they marched in single file from
the northwest and southwest corners
or the auditorium and down the cen
ter aisle to the front of the stage
where they passed under large arch
OF flowers which had been erected
there Then they separated to either
side of the stage and took seats on the
platform. Preceding the graduates in
this march were thirty of the sub-sen-
| Tor girls, fifteen on a side. and each
side carrying long daisy chain which
was emblematic of the colors of the
graduating class, green and white
These sub-seniors stretched their daisy
chain from one end of the center aisle
to the other and the graduates march
ed down through this sort of living
coloneade
a n q RI 71Jeo fear,
ed in dresses of the purest white. ev-
cry one of which was a creation by IT
self, and each of the girls carried a
cluster of American Beauty roses in
her left arm All of the boys were
dressed in suits of black and wore
sprigs of alfalfa in their buttonhoIes
As soon as the graduates reached the
center aisle in their march to the stage
they were greeted with hearty ap-
plause from the audience and this con-
tinued until they reached the stage
and had taken their seats.
L. D. WhittemOre, city superintend-
ent of schools, presided at the exer-
cises which were opened with an in
vocation by Rev. Frank N. Lynch
pastor of the First Methodist Episco-
pal church. While Mr.. Lynch was of
fering up a fervent prayer. a jet black
dog. half grown and ungainly pup.
bobbed UP on the front of the stage
from apparently nowhere. He was
unmuzzled and was of an inuuisitive
the stage to the other, nosed in all
corners and tried to get sympathetic
pat from many of the graduates on the
front row but without avail AS soon
as DR.. Lynch had concluded his pray
or one of the boy graduates collared
the pup and carried him off the stage. ,
He was vigorously applauded for his
efforts.
To those who believe in signs this
unexpected coming of the black dog
was looked upon as a happy augury !
for the graduates. Ills said that when |
a strange black animal crosses ones |
path at the outset of a journey, that |
journey is bound to be a success. And |
that the members of the graduating |
class feel that their finish Of school |
work is but the beginning of a long |
their motto which is mot finished; |
but just begun
There was another selection on the
pipe organ by Mr.. Roehr which was |
followed by Mr.. Harry c. Pribble with |
a tenor solo. This was followed with |
an address to the graduates by the |
Rev. William F. Anderson, D. D., cor |
responding secretary of the Board of |
church. DR.. Anderson took for his |
subject "Life-A Conquest" He re- |
ceived $50 and considerable applause |
for his effort and announced that he |
would charge nothing extra for a dis
sertation he gave on the culture of
roses.
At the conclusion of the address Mr.. |
Pribb1e sang another solo and then |
the exercises were brought to a close |
with the presentation of the much COW |
eted diplomas to the graduates. Rev. |
F. E. Mallory, president of the board |
of education, performed this service in |
a most happy fashion.
Following are the names of the
graduates:
Grace Knight Anderson, Mary En-
ma Anderson. Grace Rebecca Berry
Ernest Frederick Beine. Bart o. NJ
Bonebrake, Gladys Anita Boyle, Mon
lea Agnes Bresette, Earl Godfrey
Butterfly, Henry Webb Carr, Edna I
Belle Campbell. Chester Clyde ChaI-
mers, Birdie Chandler, Lola Vern
Chnds. Ray Ernest Cope, Alfred Ben
ton Crossley, Karl ". Davidson, Frank
lin H. Durant. Susie Dusenberry, Ar
thur P. B. Ekstrom. William Earl (
Frantz, Mary Dallas Gage. William
Brandon, Corine Alberta Gunther, |.
Grayce Trever Heinsman, Helen Day
Henderson. Dorothy Louise Hoffman,
Dwight G.. Hulburd. Edna Louise
Hulse, Edward A Ingram, Francis
Leonard Johanson, Eva Eliza beth KEEL
lev Hiram Webster Kingsley. Dora r.
Lovitt, Jennie Clement Maxwell Mar
Bertha E. Mix. Edward l.. Mooney, I
Dorothy Morris, Helen Ruth Morrow,
Myrtle Albert Morthland, Henry Theo. |
Motin, Eff1e J. milford Donald Moh-
Ter Neiswanger, Mary OverhoIt,< Ralph
Sherman Parr, Roy Payne. Maude
Reed, Lester Alonzo Rfnggenberg,
Clement Kelso Roose. Robert ]. Roper,
Smith, Alice Elizabeth Stout. Charles
Earl Strong Margaret Ann Swan |