The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-18
HONESDALE HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
Class Night Exercises Of the Class Of |
Last Class to Graduate from Old School
Building. FarweII FrOIic

Oors on Tuesday evening last b.
,latives and friends of the gradua
on class to listen to the class eX
'cises. Frederick j. Osborne, a
ass president, presided, and intro
lced the several speakers. Th
idress of welcome by Ernest F
udley and other addresses are here
ith given in full.
"ADDRESS OF WELCOME"
BY Ernest F. Dudley.
Ladies and Gentlemen-I wish
to extend to you all, in behalf of
the Glass of Nineteen Nine, a
most hearty welcome to this, our
final fun gathering. l suppose
to the majority of you the ad-
dress of welcome to the class
night exercises has long since
lost it's significance as an address
of welcome. People clearly take
it for granted that they are well
come, or why do they come in
such vast numbers? However,
at the very outstart of our per-
formance, if there are any per-
sons present who fail to see the
word welcome" written all over
every countenance in this crowd,
| wish to say to them especially,
that we, the Glass Of 1909, bid
them a hearty welcome to our
last official meeting. With these
words, spoken from the very
depths of my cardiac recesses,
my duty is performed. Yet, |
cannot but think that there are
some people here tonight who
do not realize the vast import
ance of the occasion, and prob
ably need to be impressed with
it. 'Tis the fifteenth day of
June, day long to be remem-
bered. OF course there are
few great events that invite
some attention but what are
they compared to the battles
of the class OF 1909? Ladies
and Gentlemen, you see before
you tonight the Scared veter-
ans of from three to six facul-
ty scrimmages, and a few
school board skirmishes. We
came, we saw, we conquered.
We climbed though the rocks
were rugged, and fought
bravely, until finally after
long seige of four years, we
have managed to get out from
within the confines of four
white walls and have gained
foothold on the outside. OF
course our ranks suffered con-
siderably during that time.
Every year a few dropped from
the rolls until now the happy
day has arrived, our ranks
number but two and twenty.
l suppose even now some of
you wonder how we escaped.
Well, l won't go into detail
about each ones experiences
but one of the happy ones who
held her own throughout the
term of years, is our "Freund"
the 'Dein," in whom we all
had great Faith" and who
refused to Romano" in con-
finement any longer to be
"Harris"-d" by the Faculty, so
one day, Beck"-oning to
her polly" to follow, and TAX
ing something to Frye we'll
in fact she took about all one
could Gerry" she boldly
struck out without a "Murri-
man" You can all see that
she has reached the top of the
"Hill"-er even tho there were
at times a thick "Heal"-ly of
bullets. But l think am
straying a little from my duty.
The purpose of to-night's
meeting is to gather for a fin
al frolic before the dawning of
the dignified day when our
Principal is privileged to pre-
sent us with our well-deserv-
ed diplomas. To you, Prof.
Oday, and the esteemed mem
bers of the Faculty, l wish to
extend in the name OF the
Glass of 1909, our appreciation
Of the kindness you have shown
us and the great blessing you
have been to us since we came
under your care and guild
ance. To our schoolmates all,
We say, "God-speed!"
Now / must turn the even
ing's duties into other and
abler hands. Kind friends,
we believe you will find enjoy
ment, if not profit, in our
class tomfoolery. If jokes are
too local or too personal for
general understanding, smile
away; it won't hurt you. l
am sure the members of the
class will keep cool, even