The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-03

CLASS DAY
FOR GIRLS
Commencement Exer-
cises Under Way.
THRTY-SEvEN TO GRADUATE
End Of -Four Years Of Study at
Hand.
The Class Day Exercises Were Held
Yesterday Morning I'm the Audi
torium which Was Beautiful
Iy Decorated for the
Occasion.
THRTY-sEvEN TO GRADUATE

/
threw open its doors yesterday morn
ing to the commencement throngs for
| the class of 1s0s--for IL was Glass Day,
the beginning of the commencement
/ exercises, when the 6sweet girl grad
uate, after four long years of study
and careful preparation. goes forth
| from her alma mater finished pro-
| duct.
| The stage was profusely decorated
| also with flowers and ferns. and 1t was
an inspiring picture of loveliness when
the young ladies grouped around the
stage, robed In white, rendered their
first song, Greeting" The delightful
chorus was sung with a lightness.
| grace and spirit which captivated the
audience. which well nigh filed the
auditorium.
| The first part OF the Glass Day exer-
| cises was the salutatory and class his
| tory, which was given by Miss Carrie
| Hugger In an easy, graceful manner,
who spoke in part as follows:
| For the class Of 1909 ! give a most
cordial greeting to you, you who for
so many years have toiled well and
long, you who have suffered many dis
| appointments. but today we stand on
the threshold of new world without
| q sense of regret. We look backward
| with great pride upon this school life
| and look forward with eager antici-
| patton for the new life we are about to
| enter.
but here our paths divide, as we
| go out separated In the journey through
life, but may the true friendship. which
has existed between US. always exist
\ The friendship which We began In the
autumn of 1895 when, step by step,
| year by year, we have climbed upward
and toiled bravely toward the goal
| we now have reached. Four years ago
Al lob wr-a fHIu hnA 10 ~
enter this high school, where we have
worked hard and industriously and
| thirty-seven have reached the goal to-
| day. The road has been long and per-
haps tiresome to some, but today the
end crowns our work and we stand
with reluctant feet upon the threshold
| of a bright future"
Following the class history. Miss
Anita Strassburger read a very enter
| tanning essay on who Are the 0reat?"
but the feature Of the morning was the
| graceful, bewitching pantomime by
| fourteen members OF the senior class,
with Miss Ida Parrish the reciter.
TYPES Of Greatness.1
Miss Carrie Rice, In her essay, Types
of Greatness" brought out the life and
deeds of the gallant Pelham, Alabama's
| boy, and Alabama's noblest, tribute to
| the war. She told of his birth, his life
/ his bravery and his patriotism. How
| he wen his title ct fredericksburg and
how he fought his last battle, being a
brilliant actor on every field.
The poet, Sidney Lanier, was the
subject OF Miss Bertha Woods essay,
and she brought out the facts that he
was not only q poet, but musician.
She told how he fought throughout the
civil war after which he devoted his
time to the study of the English Ian
guage and the writing of his poems.
T. atPNlE--
| Great Physician, portrayed the lives
of Mr.. Mott and Dr.. Sims. who lived
and practiced within the confines of
| Alabama. She told how DR.. Mott prac-
| ticed medicine In Mobile and later es-
tablished a medical school there. How
| at the opening Of the war he served
| on General Bragg's staff, and how az
medical science which were not recog-
nized until after his death. While on
the other hand, she said that DR.. Sims
| practiced medicine here In Montgomery
| for ten years in an easy-going manner.
and how, in 1S45, the turning point in
| his life came, when he discovered a
cure for lockjaw and an operation for
| treating cross-eyes. Later, Miss Loeb
stated, that he was considered one OF
| the greatest surgeons in the South and
| was elected President of the American
Medical Association and even today a
monument stands in his honor in Cen
| trail Park, New York.
At this point in the program anoth-
er pantomime was given, entitled The
Diver" by twenty-one members of the
class. with Miss Jean Well. the reciter.
Miss Clara Galloway followed with
an essay The Greatest Woman of Ala
| bama," and she wildly portrayed the
life Of Helen Kellar, her birth. her dis
| tingulshed ancestors, her sickness when
a mere child and the loss OF her sight,
| speech and her sense of hearing. She
told of her entrance into Perkins In
Stitute, how she first learned to spell
the word, water, and how she grad
uated from college and took a degree
She also dwelt on her present life near
Boston, where she ia still reading and
studying and engaged in the writing
OF many books.
Miss Lucie Dow began her valedic-
tory by saying that the time had come
for them to say farewell, which was al
ways sad part OF the commencement
exercises. for from girlhood they had
shared the same pleasures and suffered
the same troubles and that now they
were about to step out into the broad,
world-into womanhood, and that 1t
was a sad task to say goodbye to
their alma mater within whose walls,
they had spent so many happy hours
since their girlhood.
Continuing she thanked the Board of
Education on behalf of the class of
1903 for the advantages secured for the
class by their diligence and she
charged the younger class mates to fol-
low in their footsteps and profit by
these advantages. Concluding. she
turned to her class mates and said the
last farewell for them.
The exercises of the morning were
concluded with the singing of the
graduation song by the members of the
senior class who are: Ethel Kathleen
Barnes, Mary Burke, Clara Lavinia Cal
laway Helen Colquitt, Ceci1e Mary
Dennis, Lillian Marguerite Dorsey. Lu-
Gle DOVE. Palmer Ready Ellsberry,
Louise Hamburger, Edith Sarah Hodg-
son, Annie Williams Holt, Carrie Hug
ger. Maude Hugger, Laura Goode Jones.
May Ferne Jones. Laura Paralee Ken
nedy, Efie Lou Lee. Blanche Loeb,
Lucie Rivers McKeithen, Ida Beau
mont Parrish, Mamie Darling Redding,
Carrie Rice. Irma Bertha Rice. Edna
Rollings, Marcelle Sabel, Adele Zoe
Smith, Annie Forss Smith, Nellie
Blackwell Smith, Annie Howard Solo
mon, Anita Bernioe Strassburger, Luz