Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-17
CLASS OF 1910
At THRESHOLD
WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY SENIORS
ARE READY TO STEP OUT
INTO THE WORLD.
MANY ALUMNI TO SPEED THEM
Milwaukeean Will Direct Class Play and
Several Cream City Students
Are in Cast.
MANY ALUMNI TO SPEED THEM
WILL HEAR GERMAN AMBASSADOR

MADISON, Wis, June 14-[Special
The commencement exercises will be.
gin FRIDAY, June II, with the annual
commencement concert given by the stu.
dents Of the school Of music.
Count Johann Heinrich Won Bernstorff
German ambassador to the United
States, will deliver the baccalaureate ad.
dress to the graduates in the gymnasium
auditorium, Sunday afternoon, June 10
Count Johann Heinrich Won Bernstorf1
is said to be one of the foremost figures
in German politics today. His policy
different from that of most Of his con.
tempOraries, Is one Of publicity in all
matters and he has frequently been sub.
jected to bitter attack for his free ex,
the press. He succeeded Speck Won
Sternburg as United States ambassado,
about two years ago.
Monday, June 90 will be class day
with the customary class day exercises
including the ivy planting, senior play
and pipe of peace ceremony. Tuesday
will be alumni day, and on wednesday,
the regular commencement will take
place The exercises will be held in the
gymnasium auditorium in the morning
Orations will be delivered by Burns o.
Severson, Stoughton, representing the
college Of agriculture; Oliver S. Rundeu
Livingston, law school; David S. Han.
chett, Chicago, and Frank J. Shannon,
OcOnomOwoc, college Of letters and
science, and William H. Witt, Marsh.
field. college of engineering.
Officers of Class.
The officers Of the graduating class
are: Francis R. Duffy, Fond du Lac
president; Robert A. Fucik, Williams
Bay, first vice president; Leslie B.
Weed. Milwaukee, second vice president;
Kemper Sidell, Milwaukee, secretary;
Charles NJ. Nash, Grand Rapids, treas
urer: Harry Culver, Appleton, sergeant.
alarms.
President Van Hise will deliver the
commencement address and confer the
degrees. The presidents reception will
follow, and the alumni ball in the even.
ing will terminate the commencement
week programme.
The play chosen for presentation by
the senior class this year is T. Anstey's
comedy, 1.-THE Man from Blankley's,n
Tuesday, June 2O-21, at the Fuller Opera
house. under the direction Of Herbert
Stothard of Milwaukee. The cast in
cludes:
J. D. Brewer of Fort Atkinson; B. f.
Springer of Milwaukee,; r. J. Jensen OF
D.
Hensey Of Jefferson; c. f. Watson Of Ash
land; G. L. Watson of Fond du Lac; H. H.
Herring of Rockford III. Margaret H'Dou.
Gertrude Kennedy of Highland; Agnes John,
son of Madison; Hazel Straight of Madison;
Alice Underwood Of GLENCOE, III; Ethel Tay,
lor Of Sioux City, la; Helen Fitch of Sun
Prairie; Gladys Priest and Kate DonaYan
Of Madison.
The proceeds Of the production will
go toward establishing an alumni secre-
taryship. The plan of the alumni and
seniors is to hire regular secretary for
organize the Wisconsin university
alumni as the alumni of many
other schools are organized, and to
carry on the management of the
Alumni Magazine. It is thought that
at the expiration of the three years the
office will have become permanent one,
with permanent means Of support.
Many Alumni Elected.
The largest gathering of alumni since
the jub lee is expected this year. Over
100 former members of the university
glee club, of whom there is to be spe-
cial reunion will sing college songs at
the alumni dinner Tuesday night, June
q. in the gymnasium. The classes Of
1890 and 1900 are preparing special pro-
grammes of original commencement
stunts to mark the tenth and twentieth
anniversaries, respectively, of their grad
uation. The class of 1900, headed by a
committee of Chicago graduates, with L.
A. Williams, as chairman, and W. A.
Morrow as treasurer, have been publish
ing four-page weekly to stimulate in
terest and promise a return of $50, over
two-thirds of the entire class, to their
alma mater, during commencement week
A meeting Of sixty alumni visiting
committees that have been inspecting
the work of the university this year will
port at the annual business meeting of
the Alumni association Tuesday morn
ing. The establishment of the general
secretaryship of the Alumni association,
the revision of the constitution, and the
election of officers and alumni visitors
for the ensuing year will also be taken