Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-12
EXERCISES HELD
AT POLYTECHNIC
DIPLOMAS DISTRIBUTED TO
GRADUATING CLASS
JUDGE WILBUR MAIN SPEAKER
OF THE EVENING
tributed and Music Rendered by
Students Clubs and High
School Orchestra

The formal commencement exercises
IF the winter 'O9 class of the Poly
technic high school took place last
night, and opened with an address by
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur of Los An
geles. Acting Principal w. Dunn in
trodUced Judge Wilbur.
An eloquent Grafton, entitled our
Forests" was delivered by Frank e.
Anderson, one of the graduating stu
dents This was followed with a cornet
solo, ably rendered by w. Milton, after
which Miss Ruth Kimball vice presl-
dent of the graduating class, gave an
grafton on 1.-THE Postal Savings Bank. "
The boys and girls glee clubs then
sang the "Song of the Vikings" accom-
panied by Miss Mable Post on the
piano
Acting Principal Dunn delivered a
short talk and presented the class to
Joseph Scott, president of the board OF
education, who addressed the assembly
and distributed the diplomas.
While the Polytechnic orchestra rem
dered a selection the flowers were dis
tributed by the girls of the senior B
class. The following issa list of those
who graduated:
Class officers - President, Nelson
Smith; vice president, Ruth KlmbaH;
secretary and treasurer, Henry Wacker-
barth; historian, Ruth G. Dutton, and
Davies, Carl F'rantz, Alfred Hagerman,
Louis Lang, A. Farley Johnson, Gle
ment Refs, Reuben Sebastian, Henry
Wackerbarth, Hazel Banks, Mary Car
yer, Ruth E. Kimball, Howard Bullen,
Alfred Dennis, J. Homer Hough, Will
liam Jepson, Wilbert McClara, {:
Franklin Padan, Fred SchmutZler, Fred
Stillwell, Percy Walker, Gertrude Bell,
Ruth G. Dutton, Bessie O'Brien, Ernest
Simmons, Eloi Charbonnel, Tom Felt,
Frank Gleiss, Walter Larson, Henry
Melone, Lee Narver, Nelson Smith, Lc-
Roy Strang, Herbert Stuart, Gladys
Brandt, Laura Nelson and Nellie Tufts.
Door of Opportunity
Judge Wilbur spoke in part as fol-
lows:
1.-THE door of opportunity is ever
opening before us and closing behind
US. We are ever standing upon the
threshold of the untried future, having
behind us the irrevocable past. To-
night you stand at the threshold of op-
portunity. AS you have all passed
through similar experiences and all
face, in some measure, the same Oppor-
tunities, it is thought appropriate at
this time that you should be addressed
both with a view of commencing you
for that which you have so faithfully
achieved, and for the purpose of in
spring in you new ambition to go for
ward and do those things which make,
not only for the betterment of your
selves, but also of the country in which
you live. I am not unmindful of the
honor done me in selecting me to
address you at this time. I cannot
well come before you without a prayer
to a Higher Power that the thing
which will help you may be said; and
that thing which would not help and
might hinder may be left unsaid.
Tomorrow we are to celebrate the
birth of one Of the foremost figures in
history. 1t has seemed to me, there
fore, that we might appropriately turn
to his life tonight and see whether
there is any lesson we may learn
therefrom which will help us at this
Juncture of our experience.
Born in Poverty
zone hundred years ago this bow was
porn, IN poverty and obscurity, amidst
the forests Of Kentucky. His cradle
was a hollow log; his home a rude log
cabln. AS he grew to boyhood he was
dressed IN trousers Of buckskin and
shlrt OF tow linen. We see him ner-
forming the meniaI tasks about the
farm; as he grew older, planting the
corn and hOeing and caring for II.
uOllg the chores, heIDine his Y,oo+boy.