The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-30
CLASS DAY AT
HIGH SCHOOL
Excellent Exercises by
Graduates.
PROGRAM OF GREAT MERIT
Great Concourse Of People Listens
to Its Rendition.
Original Essays and Articles Pleasant
~ Inter.persed with Musical SEE
Iections, All of Them Well
prepared and Admirably


massed about them, twenty-three
graduates of the Girls High School
yesterday celebrated their Class Day
with a performance that delighted a
great concourse of their friends in the
Auditorium of the Girls High School
on South Lawrence Street. With es-
say and recitation, with song and in.
strumental music, in a program of
their own making and execution, they
made memorable, to themselves and to
those who had interest in them. the
glorious day of their lives.
The Glass DAY ceremonies were COM
menced at Il O'Clock in the morning nnn.
zettis Morning Hymn" and were con-
cluded with the Class Song. of which
the words were composed by Miss Ros,
the music by Miss Alice Sachs, the Mu-
sic Supervisor of the Public Schools.
Between the initiation and the termin-
alton of the exercises were series OF
musical performances, reading of es-
says and delivery of Rotations that
made credit not only for the school
for the members of the class who had
prepared and contaminated the pro-
gram.
The stage was a mass of palms that
made a scene of beauty for the beauty
of the graduates The color decora-
tions were made by yellow flowers ar
ranged upon the scenery OF the STAGE ara
dressed in white, carried arm clusters
of yellow roses, with scarfs Of yellow
satin bordered chiffon.
The original work of the class was
of unusual excellence. The music by
members of the class was admirable.
and the essays gave unmistakable sign
of study and thought, exactness OF ex,
preston and elegance of dictfon and
delivery. From first to last, there was
cot moment of dizziness in a program
III ar1Ny for hnf IL
ebration of the graduation of the class,
yet appealed strongly, TO the friends OF
its members. So
The Class History, written and read
by Miss Carrie Brown Joseph, was nee
essarily chronicle, yet its cfeverness
appealed to the audience that was not
IN such close. communication with the
transactions OF the memorable grade.
The essays by Miss Flora Stakely,
Miss Stannie Lamar, Miss Dixie Drum
and Miss Rosalind Sayre. were studied
treatment me- as Web as the 1 grace Of de-
livery, were charming.
Miss loretta Taylor In her
q poem py Of en-
oughly Sustained by Miss Ellen Lucas.
"a The valedictory Of MISS 81 L s,l;a Mc &c
with sympathy and spirit.
An especially enjoyable number was
iment to recitation by the class, OF
the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the
members of the class lending TO tho
recitation sympathetic series of ges, ,
lures and poses that were as beautiful
as they were expressive.
The music rendered yesterday was
at once an endorsement of the training
afforded by their teachers and a trib-
ute and reward of the students who
had labored so faithfully to complete
their native endowments. The violin
Accomplishments were played by Miss
Paunne Levy, Miss Jean Griffin and
Miss Evelyn Glass, members of the
First Year in the High School; Miss
May Belle Jones was accompanyist on
the piano and Miss Alice Sachs, Direc-
tor of Music in the Public Schools, was
director of the chorus and the accom-
In the chorus and in the solo per-
formances of Miss Phillipa Marks, Miss
Anne Chandler, Miss Flora Staksiy,
and Individual ability was as remark
able as the training each had received.
Song Of the Graduates.
Unusually meritorious was the class
song by Miss Sayre and Miss Sachs,
which follows.
sour hearts are throbbing with fare
well, >
We've reached the parting of our ways
At last we sag goodbye;
And going forth, each one embarks
On life's uncertain sea;
But bright school will e'er remain,
A hallowed memory.
CHORUS
Then goodbye. sweet School days,
Farewell, dear Alma Mater,
We go henceforth our separate ways,
with faith in thee but greater.
Were launched upon life's troubled sea.
Each steers her boat toward Heaven
Yo no! Goodbye, we go. farewell,
To the class of nineteen seven.
Oh! fair the hand that becks us on,
To lands where .dreamers waken,
But come what VII lour love for thee,
BY fate will ne'er be shaken.
In veal or woe one memory bright
Will radiate our ways:
A happy light will ever shine.
From bonny, bright school days.
(Chorus)