The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23
Class of 80 Receive Diplomas
at High School Commence
ment Friday Night
CROWD GREETS STUDENTS
Miss Edith Mattson Gives the Vale
dictory While Salutatory is Given by
Arthur Redeen-Many Speakers on
the Program.

The sweet girl graduate as we'll as
the young men who were SO fortunate
as to have completed their course in
the high school were very much in
their element ON Friday evening when
the annual commencement exercises of
the Kenosha High School took place
at the Rhode Opera House. The COM
mencement exercises drew the usual
large crowd for since the officials of
the schools have found what the people
want the commencement exercise is no
longer a drag but delight to the fond
mothers and fathers of the students.
Notwithstanding the hot weather the
opera house was filled to it's capacity
for the commencement exercises and
the program was just long enough to
furnish a pleasant evenings entertain
ment. The big auditorium formed a
pretty setting for the final bow of the
members of the class. The stage was
decorated in palms and ferns while
over the big arch of the stage the class
motto Forward" was wrought in gold
and brown, the -colors of the class of
1910. From the boxes on either side
of the stage hung great banners in the
same colors.
There was one thing unusually pleas
ing with the program for commence
ment this year and that was the fact
that every number on the program was
furnished by the high school students.
The stage was completely filled with
high school boys and girls. There
were the twenty-nine members of the
class, the members of the boys glee
club and the girls Of the Treble Clef
club, and they completely filled the
great stage.
All of the music from the opening
overture which was rendered by the
high school orchestra to the last song
| by the Octette was furnished by the
high school. boys and girls and the
musical numbers showed that great
progress along musical lines is being
| made at the high school, There was
a noticeable lack of flowers at the com
mencement this year as the members
of the class had asked that their
friends refrain from sending flowers
to the theatre and the pretty Junior
girls who looked after the graduates
had little to do.
The program for the evening open
ed with musical number by the high
school orchestra after which the invo-
cation was given by the Rev. Perry
Millar, pastor of the Park Avenue
church.
The first number from the members
Of the class was the salutatory given
in an excellent manner by Arthur Re
deem. He spoke a word of welcome
from the members of the class to the
school patrons and the people of the
city and spoke of the happy years that
had been spent by the members of the
class while in the high school He
spoke of the motto of the class " For
ward and declared that it was the In
tention of every member of the class
to 60 forward in their work in life
as they had in the four years course
in the high school. The salutatory
was well prepared and given in a man
! ner which received hearty applause
from the audience.
After a song by the Treble Clef club
Miss Amy Pennefeather gave an ora
tion on the subject, A Plea for Do
nestle Economy Miss Pennefeath-
er in a charming manner showed that
one of the great problems facing the
women Of the world today was to prop
erly care for the home. She found
in education along the lines of domes-
tic economy panacea for many of
the great difficulties now confronting
the country and declared that could
the problem of the proper care of the
home be solved by the public schools
! it would be great step toward the
solution of many social and political
questions. Miss Pennefeather made a
strong plea for the practical educa-
tion of the young women in the public
schools declaring that it was important
that the literary and theoretical edu-
cation be supplemented with something
along the practical lines of every day
/ life. The Grafton touched a respon-
sive chord in the audience and the
young lady was given prolonged ap-
plause.
Glenn Spoor, president of the class,
made strong plea for postal savings
bank. He presented the big question
which has puzzled congress in a very
attractive light and made strong ar
/ gument in favor of the postal savings
bank system. He declared that the
postal savings banks would be partic-
ularly the banks of the masses, he
showed that they would be open for
the deposits of the workmen on his
way home from work and that they
could be haadled Nith minimum Of