Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-12
GRADUATION WEEK
WILL Be BUSY ONE
WISCONSIN, STATE UNIVERSITY
WILL GIVE TO coo STUDENTS
DEGREES.
EXERCISES BEGIN JUNE IL.
Great Number of Young Men and Won
en- to Take Part IN Numerous Cere-
monies on Programme.
MILWAUKEEANS TO PARTICIPATE.

MADISON, Wis, June G.-[ Special
Over 600 students will receive degrees
next week from the various colleges Of
the University Of Wisconsin in the
annual commencement exercises which
will begin Friday and last until the fol-
lowing Wednesday. There will be 800
baccalaureate degrees given out and over
100 higher degrees.
Over 12J members Of the graduating
class viii appear i'll the various exercises
which are connected with the annual
week Of events which characterize the
end Of the college year.
Senior week will begin with the com
mencement concert, to be given is AS
sembIy hall Friday afternoon, June l..
British Ambassador james Bryce will
deliver the baccalaureate address to the
class at the Armory, Sunday afternoon.
President Van Hse delivered both the
baccalaureate address and the com
mcncement addresses last year, but he
viii give only the commencement add
dress this year
Class Day June Is.
The class day exercises, which will
take place Monday, June 10, and will
occupy the entire day with programmes
IN which over fifty members of the class
will appear before the public, Will be
gin at 10 o'clock in the morning with
the Ivy exercises, which take place on
the upper campus near University hall
The programme is as follows:
Address Of welcome, George G. Mathews
Burlington
Ivy planter, Phillip c. schwcnker, La
Ivy Grafton Ray NJ Stroud, Portage.
Ivy ode Laura Jameson, POynettc.
Farewell to buildings, William M. Lesser
son, Madison
The class day exercises proper will be
held at o'clock in the afternoon at As
sembly hall, with the following pro-
gramme:
Class history, John v Mulaney East
Troy and Susan NJ. Armstrong, Madison
Class poem, Martha II. Wertz, Forreston,
Glass day grafton, Edward NJ Mcmahon,
Milwaukee,
Farewell to underclassmen, Leslie NJ.
Junior response, Charles c. Pearce
DodgeYille.
man, Madison, and Helen Flint, Madison
Class statistics. r. A. Schmidt, Madison
Presentation of memorial, which is this
Homer A. Benton, Madison.
Acceptance Of faculty, Prof e. II. Mau-
Ter
Farewell to faculty, Gerard A. GesseIl,
Madison.
Class prophecy, Edith Swcnson, Madison,
and George {. Matthews, Burlington.
Will Present "The Mikado."
The cast for the presentation of ''The
Mikado" on Monday and Tuesday even
ngs Of this week is as follows:
Nauki-Poo, a high browcd youth dis
guised as IA second trombone, Il. A. Bart
KoKo the lord high executtoner of TIT
pu, e. II. Grobe, Menomonie
Pooh Bah, lord high everything else,
George b. Hill, Milwaukee.
Pish Tush, a noble lord, Charles l.. BY
ron, Milwaukee.
Yum Yum, ward and fancee of KoKo in
love with Nauh Poo, Frances Hall, MadI-
son.
Petit Sing, chum of Yum Yum, Ruby
Peep Boo, dear friend of Yum Yum,
Frances Cleary, PlatteyiIle.
hatisha, Il high born lady past first youth
in pursuit of Nauki Poo, Louise Erb, APP
plcton.
In addition to these there will be a
chorus Of fifty voices.
The girls chorus of the Mikado will
be composed of the following members of
The class:
Alice Borreson, La Crosse; Martha VERT,
Forreston, III; May Jenkins, Elroy; Ruth
Van Slykc, Madison; Anna Stevens, Evans
VILE; Louise Walker, Madison; Anna Rueth,
Sun Prairie; Edna Brown, Rhinelander;
Madison; Alice Evans, Madison; Nora Nep,
Tud, Westby: Reynale Parmelee, Sheboygan;
MOllie Wright Madison; Katherine Mac
!Murtey, Waupaca; Jenos Grcvcreus, Berlin
May Whitelaw Portage; Eva Lewis, Ra-
Churchill, Monroe; May Tneobaid. Madison.
The mems chorus is as follows:
Hilbert Wallber, milwaukee,; Homer Ben
ton. Madison; Fred Ives, Rubicon; Cornelius
woe; John Sherman, Brodhead; Herman
Meyer, Madison; William Matthews, West
Nelson, Stoughton; Edward Jones, Bangor;
Leigh Jerrard, Superior; Harry Harper.
Madison; James Grain, Madison; Lewis
Coon, Edgerton, is musical director of the
opera.
The proceeds of the production of the
senior play will go to the benefit of the
graduation class fund maintained for the
aid of needy students and in charge of
the faculty committee on loan funds.
VIII Smoke Pipe of Peace
Following the presentation of "The
Mikado," the class wiz assemble on the
lower campus for the annual pipe of
peace ceremony. Ciaudius NJ. Hopkins
of Fennimore, custodian of the pipe
which bears the colOrS of classes from
the beginning of the university. will de-
liver the Grafton and start the pipe on
its tour of the class. The response will
be given by Henry A. HelmhOltz of
Madison, member of the Junior class.
Tuesday is alumni day and the gradu-
ates of the university will meet in an
nual reunion business meetings, and the
alumni dinner which is to be given at the
armory. The present executive commit
tee of the alumni association consists of
President Henry W. Hoyt, 10, of De
troit; vice president, Mrs. Josephine S.
Simpson, 'S3, of Minneapolis; treasurer,
NJ S. Dudgeon, L '95, of Madison; secre-
tary, Walter NJ. Smith of Madison;
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l.. Harrington, 90, Milwaukee; Mrs
Bertha Pittman Sharp, 80, Charles n