The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
q GRADUATES
ARE REWARDED
Largest Church in City Not
Large Enough to Contain
Surein9 Crowd.
Seventeen Maidens and Only
Six Boys, Four of These
from Other Towns.

The three Ts-"Try, Trust, Tri-
umph," the class motto for 1909
certainly triumphed last Friday
evening, when the graduating class
made their formal exit as high
school students before a crowded
audience Of admiring friends and
relatives. Having safely passed the
trials of final examinations, their
trust in the sympathetic apprecia-
ton Of the great audience which
greeted the class when the time ar
rived for them to file in and take
their positions on the stage was re-
warded by sincere applause for al
most every number on the long pro-
gram.
Following the invocation by Rev.
Dubois and the singing of the class
song cleverly written by Miss Ellen
Lyman, Miss Emma Flom, saluta-
torian, held the attention of the
audience by her unaffected and we'll
expressed thanks on behalf of the
class for the opportunities and en-
enlargement given them during
their four years course by the pat
rons of the district and the teaching
force, followed by a thoughtful pa
per on her theme, 'The Whole is
Equal to the Sum Of All It's Parts"
Miss Maude Little made the trans
ition from grave to gay a very
agreeable one with her recitation of
1.-THE Hazing of Valiant" which was
effective in raising a gale Of hearty
fun and laughter.
Lulu Hockett and Mabel Adsit
were the joint authors of a paper on
our local geology which explained in
plain terms the theory Of the work
of the glacial epoch in its effect on
the valleys of the Minnesota, Red
wood and Ramsey rivers. 1t is per-
haps no violation of confidence to
say that the class and teachers, if
not the audience. deeply appreciated
the pure grit which Miss Hockett,
who read the paper, had shown in
filling her place on the program re-
gardless Of the handicap Of severe
and painful injuries incurred by her
in an accident several days before
graduation night.
The musical features of the pro-
gram were all good, but from an
artistic standpoint Otto Leonard's
violin solo was unusually fine. The
writer has listened to some profess
sional work on the violin that did
not afford half the real enjoyment
given by the perfect tones which
young Leonard coaxed out of his in
strument. That Redwood Falls has
not heard the last of Otto and his
violin we sincerely believe and hope.
The recitations of Misses Edith
Hodge and Ethel Anderson as well
as Ralph Shoemaker's Carrying a
Message to Garcia" all showed that
the pupils had received effective
drill in the art of reading with COR
rect expression-an art that has
never been over-estimated or over
done in our school courses, but gen.
orally the contrary. Too few Of the
rising generation are good or even
tolerable readers, the more's the
pity.
The original work of Misses Jean
Colville and Ellen Lyman in their
"Class Prophecy" kept the audience
in a smiling mood while the two
young ladies divided the time in
reading the future of the twenty
three classmates.
The valedictory by Miss Bessie
Elliott was not sentimental but a
sensible presentation of the neces-
sity Of high ideals and persistent
work in living a useful life.
Perhaps The Gazette may be able
to obtain some Of these graduation