Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-12
GRADUATION WEEK
WILL Be BUSY ONE
WISCONSIN STATE UNIVERSITY
WILL GIVE TO 600 STUDENTS
DEGREES.
EXERCISES BEGIN JUNE II.
Great Number of Young Men and Won
en- to Take Part in Numerous Cere-
monies on Programme.
nILwAUKEEANs TO PARTICIPATE.

MADISON, Wis, June 6.-[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 500
baccalaureate degrees given out and over
100 higher degrees.
Over 125 members of the graduating
class will appear in 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
sembly hall Friday afternoon, June II.
British Ambassador James Bryce will
deliver the baccalaureate address to the
class at the Armory, Sunday afternoon.
President Van Hise delivered both the
baccalaureate address and the COM
mencement addresses last year, but he
will give only the commencement ad
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 c. Mathews,
Burlington
Ivy planter, Phillip c. Schwenker, La
Crosse.
Ivy Grafton, Ray NJ Stroud, Portage.
Ivy ode, Laura Jameson, Poynette;
Farewell to buildings, William NJ. Lesser
son, Madison
The class day exercises proper will be
held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at AS
Bembly hall, with the following pro-
gramme:
Glass history, John V. Mulaney, East
Troy, and Susan NJ. Armstrong, Madison.
Glass poem, Martha r. Wertz, Forreston,
Glass day grafton, Edward NJ. Mcmahon,
Milwaukee
Farewell to underclassmen, Leslie M.
Junior response, Charles C. Pearce,
M1sic, (piano duet, Walter W. Kuster-
man, Madison, and Helen Flint, Madison.
Class statistics, R. A Schmidt, Madison.
Presentation of memorial, which Is this
year a sun dial for the Upper Campus
Homer A Benton, Madison.
Acceptance of faculty, Prof. E. r. Maui
rer.
Farewell to faculty, Gerard A. Gessell,
Madison.
Glass prophecy, Edith swenson, Madison,
and George c. Matthews, Burlington
Will Present "The Mikado."
The cast for the presentation of 1.-THE
Mikado" on Monday and Tuesday even
ings of this week is as follows:
Nauki-Poo, a high browed youth dis
guised as a second trombone, f. A. Bart
KoKo, the lord high executioner of T1t1-
pu, E. n. Grobe, Menomonie.
Pooh Bah, lord high everything else,
George B. Hill, Milwaukee.
PisR Tush, noble lord, Charles L. By
ron, Milwaukee.
Yum Yum, ward and fiancee of KoKo In
love with Nauki Poo, Frances Hall, Madl-
Petit Sing, chum of Yum Yum, Ruby
Hildebrand, Milwaukee.
Peep Boo, dear friend of Yum Yum,
Frances Cleary, Platteville.
Katisha, high born lady past first youth
in pursuit of Nauki Poo, Louise Erb, APP
pleton.
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 >Wertz,
Forrest9n W. z, May JENKINS, Elroy; Ruth
willie; Louise Walker, Madison; Anna Rueth,
Sun Prairie; Edna Brown, Rhinelander;
len taf R1ans Masoe Nors Sen
rud, Westby; Reynale Parmelee, Sheboygan;
Mollie Wright, Madison; Katherine Mac
ay WheaW ortage EVA lewis Ra
cine: Grace Bewick, Madison; Charlotte
Churchill, Monroe; May Theobald Madison
The mems chorus is as follows:
Hilbert Wallber, Milwaukee; Homer Ben
ton, Madison; Fred Ives Rubicon; Cornelius
Weber, Theresa; John Rosholt. Oconomo
Meyer, Madison; William Matthews, West
Depere; Joseph Hegda, Manitowoc; Oscar
Nelson, Stoughton; Edward Jones, Bangor;
Leigh Jerrard, Superior; Harry Harper
Rupert, Spencerville. o. Miss Winlfred
Coon Edgerton, is musical director of the
opera.
The proceeds of the production of the
graduation class fund maintained for the
aid of needy students and in charge of
the faculty committee on loan funds.
Will Smoke Pipe of Peace.
Following the presentation of 'The
Mikado," the class will assemble on the
lower campus for the annual pipe of
peace ceremony. Claudius M. 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
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, '72, of De
troit; vice president, Mrs. Josephine S.
Simpson, 'S3, of Minneapolis; treasurer,
tary, Walter M. Smith of Madison;
James G.. Wray, '93, Chicago; Timothy
L. Harrington, 80. Milwaukee; Mrs.
Bertha Pittman Sharp, 'S5, Charles N.
Commodore Vanderbilt's Darning Needle.