The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-06-15
HIGH SCHOOL DAYS
CLASS DAY HAS PROFITABLE
PROGRAM-MR. KILLER DE-
LIVERS ABLE BACCALAURE-
ATE-COMNIENCE EXER-
CISES CLEVERLY CARRIED
OUT IN AUDITORIUM.

AS usual, the most entertaining
part of the commencement period
was the class day exercises, which
were held Thursday night in the
auditorium. a good-sized audience
enjoyed it, and the Lyric orchestra
played.
The address of welcome by David
Peterson contained some humorous
points and the speaker did not for
get the six B's-Barberi, Berger,
Bodie, Bunnell, Brown and Beatrice.
The class history by Elizabeth Burg
er made note of many interesting and
amusing experiences between 1906
and 1910. The last will and testa-
ment, read by Kathryn Nicholson,
left the building to the High school.
the love and esteem of the 1910 class
to the faculty, the bliss of senior
statehood" to the class of 1911, and
to the school at large was bequeath-
ed the use of the gymnasium floor
for basketball but not for dane
ing.
AT this point Mark Twain's "A
Critical Situation" was excellently
ISNlltu ny l@lllldu DdIUeIl.
Mervin Bunnell gave the usual
fatherly advice to the juniors and
advised them to be a model class,
like 1910. Glass Revelations" by
Rose Dirlam and "Class Roasts' by
Florence Smith were highly amusing.
The class prophecy by Helen Try
on hit the vagaries of her classmates
Nj
who made the class presentations,
gave Grace Hanlan toy piano, Har-
riet Arnold a gold star, Ralph Brown
big diamond ring, Elizabeth Burg
er a jackknife, VIM. Pethick a tree
to remember Miss Wood by, Kathryn
Nicholson pair of stills, Dorothy
Reichenbacker a tin horn, David
Peterson picture of Cupid in an
auto, Clarence Bodie a pair of doll
shoes, Conrad Hitler a .'hrokeu
heart" Rose Dirlam a teachers ruiz
er, Mervin Bunnell flask of sweet
ened water for "stimulant," Lillian
Barberi a pass to Carbondale, Flor
ence Smith a miniature automobile,
and Beatrice Rehbein a golf ball.
All the Protestant churches in
Honesdale joined with the Methodist
people Sunday night TO hear Rev.
Will H. Hitler preach the baccalau-
reate sermon to the graduates and
their schoolmates and teachers. The
students marched from the school
building to the church next door
taken the seats reserved for them on
the center aisle the house was en-
tirely filled, both floor and galleries.
The Presbyterian, Baptist and Epis-
copal pastors occupied seats in the
pulpit and assisted with the services.
The singing by the augmented choir
was excellent and the orchestra as
of the program.
Mr. Hitler spoke for 40 minutes,
addressing himself particularly to
the graduates, whom he gave some
exceptionally sane, wholesome and
practical advice. After telling about
the experience of the children of
Israel crossing the Red Sea, when
God, at the command of Moses, caus-
ed the waves to roll aside so that his
people might cross over on dry land,
he said:
Il am glad indeed that this High
school class of 1910 has chosen a
motto so completely in sympathy, so
heartily in accord with the spirit of
my text. | am glad they see the
necessity, the imperative command of
going forward. And in this connec-
tiOn | may assure them that in this
matter of going forward it is by no
means necessary that they should
forsake old truths and fundamental
teachings. The principles on which
this world is conducted are forever
the same, despite the great discoy-
cries scientists have made, are max
ing and will make. The astronomers
have discovered new stars and con-
stellations of stars, but they have
discovered no star that was not set
in the sky by the Creator when He
made the world. The mathemati-
clans may evolve new methods for
the manipulation of figures, but you
and l know that two and two always
will be four so long as right is right
and so long as God is God.
81 am glad you are to go forward.
This life is rogress-mental, moral,
spiritual progress. But to go for
ward is not easy. No boy or girl
here, no man or woman here, should
ever be so weak as to believe pro-
gress cannot mean difficulties to be
overcome and dangers to be en-
countered. To go forward means
difficulty. Our Master does not mean
for us to have easy lives. The con-
quest that is not arrived at by the
vanquishing of problems that tax
manhood and womanhood is not one