The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-05-22
high School Graduates Class Of
Eight, with Three Scholarships

-S"', Will liz &C SlhOidISIlIPS
The first Keanewick High Schoo
commencement exercises were hclC
IN the NJ. E. Church, Thursday
evening and to that occasion the
entire community gave it's thought
and attention. The showing OF
growth and increased equipment
and record work done so we'll that
the school is placed on the ac-
credited list lis having standard
course OF study recognized by all
the collegiate institutions, were a
source of supreme satisfaction to
the citizens who have in mind the
public welfare. The program it.
self was also further cause for con-
graduation. While the first class
has membership of eight and we
may confidently expect a larger
membership in future classes yet
none of them will surpass the gradu
ating efforts Of the present class in
the excellent practical thought and
effective delivery of their orations.
Four or five of the class dealt with
present day problems: Profit Shar-
ing immigration, Equal Suffrage,
and the new status Of the United
States as a World Power in an in
teresting, thoughtful and compre-
hensive way and all the speakers of
the evening held the very close at
tention Of the audience throughout.
Every seat was taken when the
class Of 1908 in step to a march
played by Miss Rosetta Hamilton
took their places on the rostrum at
$3.50 o'clock, and the program be-
gan with the class address by Rev.
W. L. Rowan, pastor of the Congre-
gational Church, who took the place
OF Rev. Wood who is i'll. Although
he had only been in Kennewick a
short time. The speaker said he
had inquiry sent him from a dis
lance, How about the Schools?'
He had been able to give a favor
able opinion as to our schools, be-
cause of the signs of progress and
marks of life in the institution out
side of the routine of every day
school work. The exercises of the
evening was an evidence of this.
Another mark of progress he noted
in the fact that the teachers were
attending to the moral as well as
the intellectual training of the pu-
pills. Disaster could only come
from men i'll high standing who
were unframed morally. The class
Of tonight.has greater opportunity
than any previous ones, even those
of one year ago and far greater than
those of greater time in the past
and with both the moral and in
tellectual endowment can make the
most of their lives.
The Class History by Miss Au-
drey Fullerton was especially inter-
esting in predatory statements of the
organization of the school in 1884,
the first officers, the location of the
school, the attendance of Is, and
the names of the early teachers and
the sketch of the develope ment of
the school until the High School
was established and the present
class began high school work.
Guy Story, the next speaker,
pointed out that up to the period of
the Civil War Immigration" had
been a source of growth and had
been only encouraged but since that
time it had been a peril in that the
lower classes of Europe had been
coming far beyond the capacity of
of the country to assimilate them
and convert them in good citizens
Democracy requires the highest
class of citizens for its successful
operation. Those who live in
ignorance, filth, and squalor apart
from the ideals of our citizenship
and a disturbance to industrial con-
ditions, cannot be tolerated if the
delicate machinery Of democracy is
to remain intact.
In the discussion of Equal Suf-
frage" Miss Ethel Tompkins bro't
out in clear statement the reason
able arguments thereto, condemned
the violent and unladylike cam
paign carried on by the Suffragettes
traced the growth of the movement
in this country and abroad, told of
it's operation in Finland and New
Zealand and established the fact of
it's ultimate universal adoption.
Miss Fannie Smiths Class Poem
contained a little of the spice Of
jokes and quips usual in class poems
but for the most part it was poetic
chain of historical events at a depth
of thought and beauty of diction
that cannot be too highly praised.
The Advantages of the Profit
Sharing over the time system or the
piece system was. pointed out by
J. Perry and he briefly sketched
the history of Profit Sharing from