The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-08
GIRLS SPEAK ON CLASS DAY Interesting Exercises at Montevano. YOUNG WOMEN ENTERTAIN Dr. R. C. Patrick Will Address
 Students. Exhibits in Industrial work Admires by the score of visitors to
 pr. PaImer's In-
 stitutios.
BY CAMPBELL |. CORY.

Montevallo, June 7.--tSpecial. J. Class Day dawned clear for the class of 1909. of the Alabama Girls Indus- trial School and the town of Monte- college town when the 300 girls of the school marched from the dormitory to the assembly hall, each girl robed In white and the members of each class wearing their colors.
 At the assembly hall 1t was an in- spiring picture of beauty with the twenty-two members of the graduat- ing class of 1909 seated in semi-cir- cle around table daintily clothed in white, artistically decorated with yell low flags and Marechal Mel roses, and brilliantly illuminated with twenty two burning candles, mounted in can delabra. s
 The exercises of the morning start ed with the rendition of the song "Mer- " June" by the whole student body. at the conclusion of which Miss Vesta Jones, president of the class, gave the address of welcome. She said 1t was a pleasure to her as president of the class to preside, and she recited par aphrase of that familiar old poem: Backward, turn backward. oh time in
 your flight,
 Make us school girls again. just for
 tonight"
 Continuing she told the duties and responsibilities of the class of 1909 with it's self-government, but that they had passed through all that. and that the class day was joyous occasion, with the twenty-two girls forming the chain of the class of 1909 with each girl a well connecting link.
 welcomed by Glass.
 Concluding, she said. Rejoice today, and from my heart comes hundred thousand welcomes, and could weep and I could laugh"
 Miss Ellen Davis followed with re. sponse in which she told Of several incidents connected with the self gov ernment of the school. and the pranks and jokes played on the different teach- CTS.
 Miss Maude Killingsworth. in her es- say. "A. G. I. S. Old and New" drew a rare and exaggerated picture of the school in few years to come, in 1913, with its new dormitories. halls and buildings. Continuing, she related what they had studied during the past year. injecting a large amount of wit; why they took several studies and got of several jokes on the teachers.
 "our Ideals of 1e09'' was the sub ject of Miss Emma Longs response ard she told how they stood with reluctant feet at the beginning of the school year and how they came and saw and con- quered. She portrayed the ideals of each of the members of the class, de- picting one as a twentieth century princess, another as a society queen, another a great landscape painter and still another as poet and authoress, setting forth what each one of the class of 1909 would be in the years to come, all of whom would win Inter national fame ana make the old class famous.
 Miss Mary Smith followed and told how when the class of 1909 left school. they had planned reunion and how they all came back to this reunion un- der the sheltering wings of their alma mater, and she brought out how the ideals of the members of the class had been realized. She told how one had married a millionaire and spent her summers in Italy. how another had be- come far-famed as a trained nurse, and how still another had made a hit be- hind the footiights, designating the re. alization of each of the twenty-two links in the class chain.
 Miss lone Grove at this point played a very pleasing piano selection enti' tied ''The Spring Song"
 Miss Williams Recites.
 The feature of the morning was the recitation of little Daisy's Faith" by Miss Myra Williams. in baby talk. which took the large audience of it's feet and the applause was sufficient enough to call forth an encore. Miss Williams gave the Reflection in a very graceful and bewitching manner. which bespeaks of her exceptional elocution- ary ability
 Miss Mary Cameron next responded and spoke on the ''Echoes from the Faculty of 1909" telling what each teacher had done or would do. and she brought out many jokes on pr. Palmer, President or the college, and many of the other teachers, as Miss Franklin, Miss Lambert, Miss Putnam and Professor Moore.
 Miss Corrie Hall called the roll, and each member of the class responded. speaking and drinking a toast to the class of 1909.
 The exercises of the morning were