The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-25
TWENN-SIX TO
GET DIPLOMAS
Commencement Week at We
Der Stake ACademy-FieId
Day at Lagoon Friday.

For the Weber Stake academy, this will
be an important week Commencing with
the preparatory exercises and advance
ment of classes at 10 a. m. there will be
some thing doing each day to and In
Guiding Friday the date set Tor field daE
at Lagoon. Commencement exercises VIII
be- held AT the academy on Wednesday
and The following day the new building
completed during the past year viii be
dedicated. In the latter event President
Joseph +. Smith is expected TO particl-
pate.
The graduating class this year will num-
Der twenty-siX. They are: Beatrice
Barnes, Wilmina Mcfarland, William S.
Wright. Myron Wade. Nettie Wade.
Pearl Smuin. Walter Wilson. Pearl era
Katherine Mckay. Vivian Hollands. Ro-
sella Ferrin. William f. Driver, Sarah
Tracy, Erving Erickson. Elsie Powell
Nell Wilson George Hooper, Leonard
Bingham. Raymond Becraft William FL
lis, Harold Johnson, Charles Owen,
Clarence Wright. Ethel Guild.
At 10 o'clock this forenoon the prepare
tory exercises and advancement of classes
will be held. and at S:45 o'clock this even
ing the senior class exercises will be held.
On Tuesday evening at 1880 o'clock the
II. 9. p. reception TO the board faculty
Will be given at the academy and at SD
O'Clock Wednesday evening the COM
mencement exercises will be held in the
lecture hall of the institution. and al S
O'Clock the next evening the dedication
of the new building will take place. All
of Friday will be given over 10 field day
at Lagoon.
Considerable attention has been devoted
TO the preparation of the program for
the commencement which will open with
the Academy band under the direction of
r. ". Nichols playing Exposition Four
Following the invocation the ValedictOry
address will be delivered by William ).
Wright The address OF the evening VIII
be delivered by Col. Willard Young.
American Home Song will be played
by the band, and this will be followed by
remarks by Horace Cummings, general
superintendent of church schools. The
presentations of diplomas by the former
principal, Apostle ID. o. Mckay, will con-
clude the first part OF the program.
The second part will consist of the pre-
sentatiOn of Queen Esther" written by
W. b. Bradbury. This will be under the
direction of Prof Joseph Bahantyne with
Henry NOlker as Organist.
Another elaborate program has been
prepared for the dedicatory exercises on
Thursday evening. Again the academy
band Will begin the program by render
ing the Weber Academy March" writ
ten by Charles Thatcher of this city. In
vocation will be pronounced by President
c. +. Middleton which will be followed
by a selection by the academy choir
President John Watson will then present
the auditors report. and President l.. w.
Shurtliff will talk on The Academy
Past" Following the rendition of "Auld
Lang Syne." by the band Prof s. ID.
Bradford of the academy faculty will
speak on THE Academy-Present," and
"Our W. S. A" Will be rendered by the
academy choir. Mrs. 'Jennette NJ. Nor
reH will speak on Our Friends" and
male chorus from the academy choir viii
sing Weber Stake Academy" The words
of this number were written by w. W.
Burton of ogden and set to music by
Prof. J. E. Ballantyne.
President Joseph f. Smith will, at this
point in the program, make a few re-
marks and offer the dedicatory prayer.
The next number will be poem written
for the occasion by Mrs. Nellie Becraft,
which will be followed by La Poloma,''
by the band. THE Academy-Future"
will be the subject of a discourse by
Principal W. NJ. McKendTick. In con-
clusion there will be other short talks
and following a selection by the choir the
benedictiOn will be pronounced.
For field day at Lagoon. arrangements
have been made for the trip 10 be run
over the Bamberger road. Wagonnettes
and automobiles will leave Thirty-first
street and Washington avenue TO connect
with the new road at the Union Pacific
crossing. The same transportation will
be furnished the party for the return trip
An elaborate program of sporting events
has been arranged for the day at the
Lagoon.